Past
Screening and talk: 7999 Fast Ln, Knox College, Galesburg, IL, April 2024.
Conference Presentation: “Central Union Railroad & Saint Denis: Video Games as a Field of Visual Ethnography,” 61st Society for Photographic Education Annual Conference, St. Louis, MO, March 2024.
Screening: 7999 Fast Ln, Doc.London Documentary Film Festival, London, UK, March 2024.
Co-edited special issue, FIELD: A Journal of Socially-Engaged Art Criticism, Issue 26 (Winter 2024).
Journal essay: “From Colonial Modernity to Postsocialism: Cheng Xinhao’s Encounters on the Kunming– Haiphong Railway,” Photographies 17, no.1&2 (2024): 153-168.
Workshop: “Navigating the Artist Visa Process,“ Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY. November, 2023.
Conference presentation: “Legal Presence and Its Discontent” at Alien: SLSA 2023 Conference, the Center for Philosophical Technologies, Arizona State University and 79th SECAC Annual Conference, Richmond, VA, October 2023.
Screening: 7999 Fast Ln, Obskuur Ghent Film Festival, Ghent, Belgium. September, 2023.
Award: Longlist, The Lumen Prize for Art and Technology, Lumen Art Projects, UK. August, 2023.
Screening: 7999 Fast Ln, Doc.Boston | Documentary Film Festival, Boston, MA, USA. July, 2023.
Installation: 7-Hour-and-23-Minute of 2147 Madison Road, 8 Buena Vista Court, and the Stay Art Festival, Special Edition Project, Shanghai, China. May, 2023.
Award: Main Prize Honorable Mention, PhMuseum Photography Grant, PhMuseum, Bologna, Italy. April 2023.
Conference presentation: “Ethnography in the Anthropocene: Photography and Video in the China-Vietnam Border Area” at Boundaries and Borders: The third photographies journal conference, San Antonio, Texas, USA. September 24, 2022.
Exhibition: Intimate Dwellings, Third Space Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, USA. June 18 - July 9, 2022.
Book chapter: "Repoliticizing the depoliticized: social practices of new workers in Picun," in Meiqin Wang, ed., Socially Engaged Public Art in East Asia: Space, Place, and Community in Action. Wilmington: Vernon Press, 2022, 241-271.
Conference presentation: "Being Governed or Not: Experimental Ethnography in the China-Vietnam Border,” at 110th College Art Association Annual Conference, March 5, 2021.
Artist talk: 7999 Fast Ln, Stay Art Festival, Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, China. December 5, 2021.
Book release: The Abode of Anamnesis (exhibition catalogue), July 2021 (OCAT Institute Research-based Curatorial Project Publication Series).
Artist talk: Artmaking, Writing, and Teaching: Toward A Hybrid System. Muge Art Space, Chengdu, Sichuan, China. March 14, 2021.
Conference presentation: "Voices from the ‘Low-end Population’: Social Practice of New Workers in Picun,” at 109th College Art Association Annual Conference, February, 10-13, 2021.
Conference presentation: “Pi Cun: A Case Study of Placemaking of New Workers in Beijing,“ at 76th SECAC Annual Conference, November 30 – December 11, 2020.
Oline workshop: Co-Existence Empathy Symbiosis: China Community Art Education Action Plan Exhibition, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China. December 5, 2020.
Exhibition: Unknown Outcome: A Costal Virginia Collaboratory, Hermitage Museum & Gardens, Norfolk, VA, China. June - October, 2020.
Exhibition: Animal Crossing Art Carnival, Shiny Art Island, June 1 - July 1, 2020.
This installation ponders the meaning of time in the world of Animal Crossing. Learn more about sound design of the Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
Conference presentation: "The Pursuit of Publicness: Socially-engaged Art Practice of Migrant Workers in Beijing" at the 12th Annual Conference of the Centre for Chinese Visual Arts: Urban Transformations and Contemporary Art in China, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK. November 11-12, 2019.
Panel: Cheng Xinhao: The Crossing, UnionDocs, Brooklyn, New York, USA. August 24, 2019.
Exhibition: The Abode of Anamnesis, OCAT Institute, Beijing, China. March 8 - June 9, 2019.
Forthcoming
Exhibition: TBA, Art Museum of Jiangxi Normal University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, China, May 2024.
Exhibition: UnBound13!, Candela Gallery, Richmond, Virginia, July 2024.
Exhibition: Memory Lane, The New Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, September - October 2024.