2019 Ph.D.| The University of Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2014 MFA | The State University of New York at Buffalo, NY, USA
2010 BA | Tsinghua University Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Beijing, China
AWARDS | GRANTS | RESIDENCIES
2020-21 CITY OF YARRA COMMUNITY GRANTS
2020 AUSTRALIA ABC TOP 5 ARTS|Finalist Selected from the over 160 applicants with PhDs in Creative Arts, Australian Broadcasting Corporation
2019 Artist-in-Residence | COWWARR ART SPACE | VIC, Australia
2018 ACADEMIC ASSISTANTSHIP | The University of Melbourne
2017 CONFERENCE TRAVEL FUNDING | Asian Studies Association of Australia
2016 Artist-in-Residence | FEMINIST ART COLLECTIVE
2016 FACULTY SMALL GRANTS SCHEME (FSGS) ROUND 2 Awarded by University of Melbourne Faculty of Fine Arts and Music for the overseas field research
2016 FACULTY SMALL GRANTS SCHEME (FSGS) ROUND 3 Awarded by University of Melbourne Faculty of Fine Arts and Music for the conference presentation
2016 PRESTIGIOUS OVERSEAS TRA VEL SCHEME Awarded by University of Melbourne Faculty of Fine Arts and Music for the artist-in-residence
2015-19 INTERNATIONAL FEE REMISSION SCHOLARSHIP | University of Melbourne
2015-16 FACULTY GRADUATE STUDENT ASSISTANCE GRANT | University of Melbourne Faculty of Fine Arts and Music
2014 TECHNE INSTITUTE MASTER’S THESIS FUND The State University of New York at Buffalo awarded fund for the MFA thesis project
2012-14 FRANCES R. AND LOUIS B. MORRISON MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP | The State University of New York at Buffalo Department of Art
FILM FESTIVALS
2021 Official Selection | St Kilda Festival | Melbourne, Australia
2020 Official Selection | Azores Fringe Festival | Azores, Portugal
2020 Winner | People of Color the International Cultural Exchange | New York City, USA
2020 Official Competition | Elizabethtown Film Festival | Elizabethtown, KY, USA
2020 Official Selection | Madrid Film Awards | Spain
2020 Video Art Competition | Athens International Digital Film Festival | Greece
2020 Video Art Competition | MiraBan Art Contest | London, UK
2020 Official Selection | Muestra de Video Arte Faenza | Bogota, Colombia
2020 Official Selection | Downtown Covington Film Festival | Covington, LA, USA
2020 Official Competition | New Delhi Film Festival | New Delhi, India
2019 Jury Special Mention | UK Seasonal Short Film Festival | Edinburgh, UK
2019 Official Selection | Miami Independent Film Festival | FL, USA
2019 Semi-Finalist | Continental Film Festival | Toronto, Canada
2019 Semi-Finalist | Lisbon Film Rendezvous | Lisbon, Portugal
2019 Semi-Finalist | International Moving Film Festival | Abadan, Iran
2018 Official Selection | In-Short Film Festival | Lagos, Nigeria
2018 Official Selection | African Smartphone International Film Festival | Lagos, Nigeria
2018 Official Selection | Festival Internacional de Cine con Medios Alternativos | Mexico
2018 Official Selection | Lobol Fest International Film Festival | Brasilia, Brazil
2017 Winner | Melbourne International Film Festival Powershorts Short Film Competition | Melbourne, Australia
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 Black Cat Gallery| The Face Behind the Face | Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2018 Alternating Current Art Space | Reshaping Female Body and Beauty | Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2018 VCA Art Space | Reframing the Representation of Women in Contemporary China | University of Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2017 Kino Cinemas | Melbourne International Film Festival | Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2016 VCA ArtSpace | Feminist Aesthetic: Cosmetic Surgery and Representing Women | University of Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2014 El Buen Amigo & LACA Non-Profit | Big City | Buffalo, NY, USA
2014 El Buen Amigo & LACA Non-Profit | Female and Cosmetic Surgery | Buffalo, NY, USA
2014 Anderson Gallery | Beautiful?! | University at Buffalo SUNY, Buffalo, NY, USA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Made in Victoria #1: St Kilda Film Festival 2021 Screening, the Astor Theatre, Melbourne, Australia
2021 Small Works Art Prize, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2020 Stand by Her, M50 Creative Park, Shanghai, China
2020 Metamorph, No Vacancy Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2020 COVID-19 Global Quilt (online), University of Melbourne (curated by Dr Kate Just and Dr Tal Fitzpatrick)
2020 Downtown Covington Film Festival Screening, Southern Hotel, Covington, LA, USA
2019 Care: Feminism, Art and Ethics in NEO-Liberal Times, University of Melbourne George Paton Gallery, Australia (curated by the research group Contemporary Art and Feminism founded by University of Sydney)
2018 SUBTITLED, Blindside Gallery, Melbourne, Australia (curated by Monica Do, [catalogue])
2018 Conspicuous Presence, Trocadero Art Space, Melbourne, VIC, Australia (curated by Australia Women’s Art Register, [catalogue])
2017 Feminist Renewal Art Network Festival, ACE Open, Lion Arts Centre, Adelaide, SA, Australia
2017 Feminism and Health–Truth About Healthy Lives Conference Exhibition, Toronto Reference Library, Toronto
2017 Feminist Art Conference Exhibition, OCAD University Art Museum, Toronto
2016 Feminist Art Collection Residence Exhibition, Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto, Canada
2016 PROUD, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2015 F generation: feminism, art, progressions, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2015 PROUD, Margaret Lawrence Gallery, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2014 Second Annual Art Festival, Project 308 Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA
2014 Hi-Temp 13 Art Opening, Hi-Temp Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA
2013 Tell Me I’m Pretty, Anderson Gallery, State University of New York at Buffalo, NY, USA
2010 Beijing 798 The Exhibition of Art and Crafts, Qi Qian Nian Gallery, 798 Art District, Beijing, China
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2019 Resonating Spaces, Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
2017 My Methodology! – VCA Creative Artistic Research in Tsinghua Fiber Art Exhibition, Fibre Art Studio, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
2015 Contemporary Chinese Fibre Art from Tsinghua University Academy of Art & Design: Where Ancient Techniques Meet Modern Approaches, Founders Gallery, University of Melbourne, Australia
Conference Paper Presentations
2019 Care Symposium: transforming values through art, ethics and feminism, University of Melbourne, October
2018 Issues in Asian Art Research Symposium, University of Melbourne, August
2017 VCA&MCM Graduate Research Symposium, University of Melbourne, February
2017 The Art Association of Australia and New Zealand Conference, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia, December
2017 The 10th Research Symposium for Chinese PhD Students and Scholars in Australia, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, November
2017 The Transnational in Asian Art Symposium: Historical and Contemporary Contexts around Migration, Diaspora, Mobility and Cultural Flows, Australian National University & Asian Studies Association of Australia, Canberra, ACT, Australia, September
2017 Feminist Art Festival—FRAN (Feminism Renewal Art Network) FEST Symposium, Australian Institute of Art History and Fay Gale Centre for Research on Gender & Art gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, September
2016 Technicity. Temporality. Embodiment – The 10th International Somatechnics Conference, University of Queensland & Southern Cross University, Byron Bay, QSD, Australia, November
2016 Feminist Art Conference, Ontario College of Art and Design University & Artscape Gibraltar Point Residency, Toronto, May
2020 TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY | “Chinese Feminism and Feminist Art,” Beijing, China, May 2
2019 LATROBE UNIVERSITY | Artist Talk, Contemporary Art and Feminism, Bendigo, VIC, Australia, August 31
2018 TROCADERO ARTSPACE | Artist Talk, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, March 10
2018 AUSTRALIAN CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART | Panelist at Feminist Color-IN, Melbourne, Australia, March 3
2018 THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE NORMA REDPATH STUDIO RESIDENCY | Presentation, “My Feminist Life,” February 15
2018 THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE BAILLIEU LIBRARY | Lecture, “From Cosmetic Surgery to Feminist Art: Reshape the Female Image in Contemporary Chinese Art,” Chinese Studies Research Group, August 25
2018 AUSTRALIAN CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART | Panelist at Feminist Color-IN, Melbourne, Australia, March 3
2017 AUSTRALIAN CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART | Panelist at Feminist Color-IN, Melbourne, Australia, April 13
2017 TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS AND DESIGN | Artist talk, Beijing, China, February 20
2013 SQUEAKY WHEEL FILM & MEDIA ART CENTER | Artist Talk, Here + Now Symposium, Buffalo, NY, USA, September 20
PUBLICATIONS
2020 ART BAAZAR 19. Artist Interview
2020 A HEARTBROKEN MASK. Contributing author of article in Women’s Art Bulletin 66
2019 FAN 字 – BODIES FANZINE 3
2018 艺术市场 [ART MARKET] 313 (12): 143 – 2018
2018 美术报 [ The ART NEWSPAPER] 1300: 32 – 2018
2017 MY METHODOLOGY. Exhibition catalog.Beijing: Tsinghua University Academy of Fine Arts and Design
2016 JOURNAL OF ARTS WRITING BY STUDENTS. Artwork selected for the journal’s cover
2016 FEMINIST AESTHETICS: REPRESENTING WOMEN IN CONTEMPORARY CHINESE ART. Journal of Arts Writing by Students 2 (1): 13-18. London, UK.
2015 ANCIENT TECHNIQUES MEETING MODERN APPROACHES. Exhibition catalog. Melbourne: University of Melbourne Victoria College of the Arts
2014 TO FIND A FORM TO ACCOMMODATE THE MESS pp.42- 45 – 2014 | NY, USA: University at Buffalo SUNY Department of Visual Studies Graduate Catalog
2013 YANGJIE DE YOUHUA YISHU杨杰的油画艺术 [THE ART OF YANGJIE’S OIL PAINTING]. 地球村美术 [Global Art] 2 (1): 102-06. Beijing, China & Tokyo, Japan.
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