June 2024

• My video “The Art Residency”  is screening as part of the Carnegie Museum Film Series. Curated by Astria Suparak, this series features 52 films and time-based works by 48 directors and artists at the Carnegie Museum of Art. The video is in the program Vibe Check, screening on June 29, 2024. carnegieart.org/event/vibe-check/

Mar 2024

• Visiting Artist @ the University of Wisconsin-Madison Glass Lab classroom to deliver an artist talk. The students+staff+faculty will fabricate glass scultpures based on my specifications. 

Feb 2024

• Emcee and host for the glass film festival, 16:9—Reframing Glass, at the Chazen Museum in Madison, WI. I will curate an evening of videos selected from the Glass Madison Fall Exhibitions that highlight UW Glass alumni working in video and performance. Link >>

  February 29, 2024
  Reception from 5:00-6:00
  Screening from 6:00-8:00

Jan 2024

• Awarded the Arts 3Cs grant from Regional Arts and Culture Council of Portland, OR.

Dec 2023

• My drawing, MAMA (2019), is now part of RACC Public Art Collection, acquired through the 2-D Portable Works Purchase Opportunity. Honored to be among the 26 selected out of 150 applicants for the theme 'Taking Inspiration from Portland’s New City Map.' Press Release.

Nov 2023

• Thrilled that Lena Chen at UC Berkeley has included my art in the syllabus for her course titled: The Yellow Woman: Performing Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Asian Diaspora.  “... including work by Patty Chang, Sin Wai Kin, Chun Hua Catherine Dong, May Maylisa Cat, Yoko Ono, and Laurel Nakadate. Centering their own bodies as the primary medium and often engaging the participation of spectators, these artists challenge, subvert, and reappropriate ideas of Asian femininity and Oriental otherness.”

Sep 2023

• Essay 'Packaged and Sold: Food and Identity in Art: Christine Miller’s Syrup on Watermelon, at the Portland Art Museum and Others' is available in noon: a publication of The Ford Family Foundation's Critical Conversations Program, published by the Center for Art Research at the University of Oregon.
  Featured Contributors: Grace Kook-Anderson, Sara Diver, Bean Gilsdorf, Ben Read, Ashley Stull Meyers, Steph Littlebird, Melanie Stevens, May Maylisa Cat, Yaelle S. Amir, Tiffany Harker, Roya Amirsoleymani, Ella Ray, Natasha Ginwala.

Apr 2023

• Cited in the publication “Equality Bulletin” published by the University of Vigo in Spain. Link to pdf>>

Mar 2023

• Group Exhibition. Eating: Otherness (March 16 - April 29, 2023), organized by EFA Project Space and curated by Emily Alesandrini & Danni Shen. Participating Artists: Destiny Belgrave, Hayoon Jay Lee, Ilana Yacine Harris-Babou, Jeanne Jalandoni, May Maylisa Cat, TJ Shin.

Jan 2023

• Awarded the Arts 3Cs grant from Regional Arts and Culture Council of Portland, OR.

Nov 2022

• Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies Lecture Series, co-sponsored by Stelo: Astria Suparak artist lecture. Followed by a conversation with artist May Maylisa Cat.

Oct 2022

• DIE D.E.I.: A Discussion on the Horrors of Institutional Inclusion
  Co-hosted by Stop DiscriminAsian and Museums Moving Forward, with support from the Ford Foundation.
• Artist interview. May Maylisa Cat Interview: Satirical Horror on Institutional DEI Efforts and Janky Artist Residencies by Vee Hua at Redefine Magazine.
  

June 2022

• Recieved the Lilla Jewel Award, named in honor of the artist, radical feminist and suffragist, Lilla Jewel, for advancing a social change message through art, from Seeding Justice, Portland, OR. 

May 2022

• Essay: Asian Futures, With Asians: Astria Suparak and Everything Everywhere All at Once @ Variable West

April 2022

• Screening of Horror and Its Universe at ACES 2022, Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute, Seattle, WA 
• Essay: The Art of Glass: Emily Endo Interviewed @ Virable West

February 2022

• Awarded the 2022 Individual Artist Fellowship from the Oregon Arts Commission. Press release>> 

December 2021

• Stelo + Virable West Art Writing Residency, Portland, OR

November 2021

• Coalesce Exhibition Opening, Stelo Arts, Portland, OR

October 2021

• Emerging Artist-In-Residence (EAiR) @ Pilchuck School of Glass, Seattle, WA. 
  

September 2021

• RECLAIMING SEXUALIZED ASIAN WOMEN THROUGH ART @ Cold Tea Collective Magazine. 
  Happy for the opporunity to pen this article about the exihibition Karmic II. 
• Exhibition closing @ New Media Gallery, Jack Straw Cultural Center, Seattle, WA. September 10
  
  

August 2021

• Karmic II Artist Talk. Aug 13 @ 7PM PT. 

July 2021

• Exhibition opening @ New Media Gallery, Jack Straw Cultural Center, Seattle, WA (postponed from 2020). July 30-September 10
  
  

June 2021

• Community Residency @ Caldera Arts

May 2021

• Awarded The Career Opportunity Grant from the Oregon Arts Commission + the Ford Family Foundation
• Awarded MAKE|LEARN|BUILD Grant from Regional Arts and Culture Council
• Residency at Stelo, OR (postponed from 2020)
• Art for and from unprecedented times | Oregon ArtsWatch

April 2021

• Asian American arts workers against White Supremacy: A statement against xenophobia and racial violence | stopdiscriminasian.org

March 2021

• Residency @ the Fountainhead Residency, Miami, FL. See info>>
• TIME CAPSULE: Found Art Archives, a teen workshop I’ll be teaching @ Bodecker Foundation, Portland, OR.  Register here>>

December 2020

• Check out Horror and Its Universe featured on @DailyTrumpet
• Selected for the public art collection, Capturing the Moment, presented by Regional Arts and Culture Council, Portland, OR.

November 2020

• Past, Present, Future VI
  Join Franklin Furnace at The Loft introducing this year’s awardees. I’ll be showing my work along with my cohort. Nov 24, 7-8:30 pm EST. Register>>
• Panel: Hanging on Every Word: Listening and Learning on Immigration Art, Intersect Chicago (formerly SOFA Expo). Nov 6, 2pm EST.  See info>>

October 2020

• Awarded Franklin Furnace Fund. Press release>>
  
• Burning, Thaan, Burning, solo exhibition @ <terminal> Gallery, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN
  Oct 19-Nov 13
• Glean Portland Exhibition @ Disjecta, Portland, OR
  
Oct 3-Nov 1

• The United Exhibition @ Pittsburgh Glass Center, Pittsburgh, PA

 Oct 2-Jan 24, 2021

• Tutoring the King Pin, essay published on Oregon Humanities. Read here>>
  

September 2020

• Tilt Podcast / Episode 3: LIMINALITY, DISEMBODIMENT, AND CONSPICUOUS CONCEALMENT
  Interview with fellow Labor Resident artists Millian Pham Lien Giang and Mimi Bai and myself, interviewed by SFAI Residency Director Toni Gentilli. Listen here >>

August 2020

• Awarded c3:letterpress residency at c3:initiative, Portland, OR
  Press Release >>

July 2020

• Emerging Artists Exhibition @ Strohl Art Center, NY See virtual tour >>
• Check out my interview at CVA!

June 2020

• Residency @ Chautauqua Visual Arts Residency Program from 6/27-8/15.
  See students & emerging artists >>
  See mentors & makers >>

May 2020

• Awarded 2020 GLEAN Portland A.I.R. program.
  See 2020 GLEAN artists & jurors >>

April 2020

• Awarded the 2020 Chautauqua Visual Arts Residency Program, Chautauqua, NY 
• Spa Thought Partner on Spa Embassy, a social project that “facilitates access to bodywork for queer, femme, BIPOC, cash-poor folks, and those defecting from carceral whiteness as a radical act of decommodifying community healing.”

March 2020

• Awarded the New Media Gallery Residency at the Jack Straw Cultural Center, Seattle, WA.
  
• Artist-in-Residence at the Wassaic Project in Wassiac, New York.
• CANCELLED! STAY HOME! 03/28 - Open Studios at the Wassaic Project.

February 2020

• 02/21 - Performing at “Platform: Engaging the Ethics of Production and Consumption” at the Santa Fe Art Institute, NM, featuring Labor Resident May Maylisa Cat and Stacy Scibelli.
  Platform events connect the making of art with the making of movement. Platform bridges art and social engagement with interactive works and participatory experiences co-created by SFAI staff and artists in residence.
  

January 2020

• 2020 Labor Residency at the Santa Fe Art Institute from Jan-Feb. See all Labor Residents>>

November 2019

• Awarded The Career Opportunity Grant from the Oregon Arts Commission + the Ford Family Foundation.
• Awarded The Emergency Grant from the Alliance of Artists Communities + Sam and Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts.

September 2019

• Artist-in-Residence at the Pittsburgh Glass Center in Pennsylvania. September-December 2019.

August 2019

• I’ll be at Open Signal Fest on August 10, 2019 to do a performance called Semiotics of a Thai Kitchen.
  Semiotics of a Thai Kitchen 4-5pm
  A livestream workshop performance that captures the tools, social systems, and tropes of performative hospitality inside the art of constructing the globalized Thai food, by New Media Fellow May Cat.

July 2019

• Special thanks to the Regional Arts & Culture Council for funding this new website!