b. 1998 Rochester, MN
Lives and works in Rochester, MN
Detailed CV
Education
2020 B.A. Media and Cultural Studies, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN
2019 Photography, Institute for Field Education, Paris, FR
Experience
2021 Founder & Curator, Generation Magazine, Rochester, MN
2019 Curatorial Assistant, Le Centre Georges Pompidou Department of Photography, Paris, FR
Assistant Photographer, Le Ministre de l'Intérieur, Paris, FR
Fellowships
2020 SEAD (Southeast Asian Diaspora) Project’s Changemakers/Artists Storytelling Fellowship
Emerging Curators Institute Fellowship
Thomas J. Watson Fellowship for Photography
2018 JGS (Joy of Giving Something) Imagining America Digital Media & Photography Fellowship
Grants and Awards
2021 Minnesota State Arts Board Creative Support for Individuals Grant
Family Tree Clinic’s LGBTQ COVID-19 Community Care and Learning Artist Initiative Grant with the Minnesota Department of Health
Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council Artistic Support for Individuals Grant
2020 Macalester Media and Cultural Studies Prize for Academic Excellence
2019 Macalester Live It! Fund Independent Summer Project Grant
Macalester Gateway Essay Prize for Excellent Writing: “Unburnt and Unburied: Khmer Refugee Family Photographs as Acts of Survival”
Residencies
2021 Public Functionary: Studio 400, Minneapolis, MN
Chautauqua School of Art Residency Program, Chautauqua, NY, Full Tuition Scholarship
Solo Exhibitions
2020 To the body you left behind, Macalester College Koch Gallery, St. Paul, MN
Group Exhibitions
2021 Chautauqua Resident Artists Group Show, Fowler-Kellogg Art Center, NY
Pride, Family Tree Clinic Gallery, St. Paul, MN
2019 08, Open Call Cabaret Gallery Space, St. Paul, MN
Curatorial
2023 (Imag)ining Queerness: Photography as Belonging, India, South Africa, Thailand, Cambodia (forthcoming)
2022 Generation Magazine Issue 02: Dreams of the Khmer Diaspora, Rochester, MN (forthcoming)
2021 Sutures, The Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN
2019 Generation Magazine Issue 01: Voices of the Khmer Diaspora, Rochester, MN
Writing
2021. Sutures, published by the Minnesota Museum of American Art and the Emerging Curators Institute (catalog)
Curating with Fluidity: A Glimpse Into Lumi Tan’s Practice, published by the Emerging Curators Institute (interview)
Featured Publications
2022 “The Possibilities of Queer Aesthetic(s)”, Vol. 1, Issue 1: Queer Aesthetics (forthcoming)
2021 “Asian American Futures: Youth Folio”, Lantern Review
Public Talks/Programming
2021 Curator, “Seeing New Potentialities,” The Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN
Guest Lecturer/Curator, “Curatorial Conversations,” Macalester College, St. Paul, MN