I graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University in 2016, where I studied Anthropology, Visual Arts, and Chinese Language and Culture. I have received awards, residencies and shown work at the following spaces, among others: Bydrcliffe residency with a Pollack-Krasner Fellowship, ChaNorth residency with Young Artist Fellowship Award, Glasshouse ArtLifeLab, Pillow Fort Arts Center, Yellowfish Festival VI, 77Art Center, Satellite Art Club, Racer East, QSpace Beijing, PIL Gallery Beijing, and Princeton University’s Herbert L. Lucas Award in Sculpture. In my prior education work, I was a teaching assistant for classes on race and inequality, class and culture, and histories and ethnographies of capitalism, themes which are deeply linked with my practice. Over the last several years, my practice has been based in New Jersey, Beijing, Xinjiang, Brooklyn, and Somerville.
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I am a multidisciplinary visual artist, working primarily between performance, installation, and stained glass. As the granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor and Jewish immigrants, my work probes tensions between safety and discomfort, paranoia and vigilance, and what it means to be complicit within systems built on daily, mundane violence. Drawing on traditional Jewish ritual, organic materials, and themes around body, anxiety, family history, and femininity, I investigate and refigure the way intergenerational trauma manifests in my body.
By inviting audiences to sit in the discomfort I generate, I ask them to imagine what it feels like to fully inhabit that emotional landscape, to reflect on the roles they may take up (observer, actor, changemaker) in response, and to experience a sense of friction in just being a bystander.