Professional Summary
Portfolio career spans grant writing, guest lectures at top universities, exhibitions in major institutions, competitive funding, and publication credits.
Awards & Recognitions
GRANTS
- Oregon Arts Commission, Career Opportunity Grant | 2021, 2019
- RACC (Regional Arts & Culture Council), Project Grant | 2025, 2024, 2018
- RACC, Professional Development Grant | 2021, 2019
AWARDS & ACQUISITIONS
- Lilla Jewel Award | Statewide award for social change message through art | 2022
- Oregon Arts Commission, Individual Artist Fellowship | Statewide award | 2022
- Franklin Furnace Fund | National award for avant-garde performance | 2020
- City of Portland, Public Art Collection | Purchase Award | 2024, 2020
FINALIST & SHORTLIST
- Creative Capital Award | Advanced to National Review Pool (State-level selected) | 2020
- Betty Bowen Award | Seattle Art Museum | Finalist (13 out of 615 applicants) | 2020
Publications
- “Packaged and Sold: Food and Identity in Art” | noon, University of Oregon | 2023
- “Asian Futures, With Asians” | Variable West | 2022 (Identity in scifi)
- “Tutoring the Kingpin” | Beyond the Margins, Oregon Humanities | 2020
(Citizenship test and assimilation)
Presentations
VISITING GUEST LECTURE
- University of Wisconsin-Madison | 2024
- Carnegie Mellon University | 2021, 2019 (3 courses)
- Yale University | 2021
- UC Berkeley | 2021
- Cooper Union | 2021 (2 courses)
PUBLIC SPEAKING
- Host, “16:9” | Chazen Museum of Art | Madison, WI | 2024 (feminism in glass and video art)
- Panelist, “DIE D.E.I.: A Discussion on the Horrors of Institutional Inclusion” | StopDiscriminAsian & Museums Moving Forward | Remote | 2022
- Panelist, “Hanging on Every Word: Listening and Learning on Immigration Art” | Intersect Chicago | Chicago, IL | 2020
- Presenter, “Platform: Engaging the Ethics of Production and Consumption” | Santa Fe Art Institute | Santa Fe, NM | 2020
SELECTED EXHIBITION VENUES
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA | Chautauqua School of Visual Arts, Chautauqua, NY | Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN | Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY | Jack Straw Cultural Center, Seattle, WA | Oregon Contemporary, Portland, OR
Research Interests & Residencies:
Selected into competitive residencies with rigorous training in professional development and techniques. These intensive programs function as a full-time immersion with provided lodging, offering the opportunity to network and build a portfolio that links cultural advocacy across mediums. (*lodging not included)
Santa Fe Art Institute (Labor Residency) | Santa Fe, NM | Jan-Feb 2020
Investigated racialized labor and ethics of consumption. Presented a live performance about cultural extraction. Published an essay about the US Citizenship Test and educational discrimination inspired by meeting a group of local Thai aunties.
- “Tutoring the Kingpin” Beyond the Margins Magazine, Oregon Humanities
- “Platform: Engaging the Ethics of Production and Consumption” live performance
Open Signal* (New Media Fellowship) | Portland, OR | Summer 2017-Summer 2018
One-year fellowship facilitated by art historian, curator, and academic Chanon Kenji Praepipatmongkol. Developed Karmic I, an exhibition analyzing Southeast Asian horror films to interrogate how fear and social controls are constructed and reinforced.
- “How to Watch a Thai Ghost Movie” Tricycle Magazine
Jack Straw Cultural Center* (New Media Residency) | Seattle, WA | Summer 2021
Developed Karmic II, an exhibition that critiques online monetization and scrutinizes Asian hypersexualization onscreen as a response to the Atlanta shooting.
Pittsburgh Glass Center | Pittsburgh, PA | Sep 2019-Dec 2019
Developed works for two separate projects: copyright and immigration art. Invited to speak at Carnegie Mellon by Alisha B Wombsly (There are Black People in the Future, 2012-Present)
Pilchuck Glass School Residency | Stanton, WA | Oct 2021-Dec 2021
- “Art of Glass: Emily Endo Interviewed” Variable West
Chautauqua Visual Arts Institute* | Chautauqua, NY | Jun-Aug 2020
Developed Farang Kee-Nok (Bird Sh!t Foreigner), which explores the societal disregard for cultural sensitivity; work permanently acquired by the Portland Public Art Collection.
Stelo + Variable West Art Writing Residency | Portland, OR | Dec 2021-May 2022
- “Asian Futures, With Asians: Astria Suparak and everything Everywhere All At Once” Variable West
Bunker Projects | Pittsburgh, PA | Oct 2020-May 2021
- Awarded The Franklin Furnace Fund for avant garde performance art.
Carnegie Museum of Art* | Pittsburgh, PA | Summer 2024
Invited to present The Art Residency at Vibe Check, a group screening featuring critical analysis of inclusivity and institutional accountability.