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Exhibitions
2025    Jahresausstellung 2025, HFBK, Hamburg, Germnay.
2021    Shanghai Urban Space Art Season 2021, Caoyang Community, Shanghai, China.
              “Rethinking the Context,” Art and Social Innovation Lab, Chengdu, China.
2019    Yijie Gallary, Chengdu, China.
2018    “KAM Fest,” Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, USA.
              Anren OCT, Chengdu, China.

Residencies
2021    Art and Social Innovation Lab, Chengdu, China.
2019    Emerging Curator Residency Program, Dimensions Art Center, Chongqing, China.

Art Book Fairs
2024    Ex libris book fair, Hamburg.
              Hong Kong Art Book Fair, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong.
2023    UNFOLD Shanghai Art Book Fair 2023, Star Museum, Shanghai.
2022    TANK Art Festival 2022, Shanghai.

Research-led Projects
2020–23    “Atransience,” offering a space for reflection and contemplation amidst the global pandemic. www.atransience.cargo.site.
2019            Cai Guo-Qiang Studio, New York, USA, contributed to several research and projects, notably for the "Encounter with the Unknown: Cosmos Project for Mexico."
www.caiguoqiang.com/projects/projects-2019/cosmos-mexico
2018    School of Architecture, Research & Teaching Assistant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, assisted in the “Placemaking and Peacekeeping in Post Conflict Colombia.” project, aiding in data visualization and design interventions. www.publish.illinois.edu/iliad-lab/research/placemaking-and-peacekeeping-in-post-conflict-colombia.

Curatorial Projects
2020    “Work-in-Book: The Shape of OCAT’s Publication,” abC Art Book Fair, Shanghai, China.
2019    “On the Nature of Landscape,” Ragesh A S Solo Exhibition, Dimensions Art Center, Chongqing, China.

Editorial Projects
2024    Craig Clunas. The Echo Chamber: Transnational Chinese Painting, 1897–1935. 2019 OCAT Institute Annual Lecture Series.
2023    W. J. T. Mitchell. Metapictures: Images and the Discourse of Theory. Exhibition Catalogue.
2022    Jaś Elsner. Eurocentric and Beyond: Art History, the Global Turn and the Possibilities of Comparativism. 2017 OCAT Annual Lecture Series.
2021    He Yining, ed. The Abode of Anamnesis. Exhibition Catalogue.
              W. J. T. Mitchell. Metapictures and Its Discourse. 2018 OCAT Annual Lecture Series.
2020    Georges Didi-Huberman. Image, Histoire, Poème. Trois conférences sur l'art visuel de S. M. Eisenstein. Beijing: Horizon Books.
              Wu Hung & Guo Weiqi, eds. World 3. Research on Chinese Art History: A Western Perspective. Beijing: Horizon Books.

Design Projects
2023–24    Space Design. VAS est. Music venue foyer, Shanghai, China.
2022–23    Exhibition Design. “The New Survivors,” curated by Shuman Wang at Three Shadows Photography Art Center in Beijing. Won the Jimei x Arles Curatorial Award for Photography and Moving Image 2022.
2020    Exhibition Design. “Work-in-Book: The Shape of OCAT’s Publication,” abC Art Book Fair, Shanghai, China.

Education
2024–         Time-based Media, MFA, Hochschule für bildende Künste, Hamburg, Germany.
2017–18    The School of Art + Design, Graduate Minor in Art History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, USA.
2016–18    College of Fine & Applied Arts, Master in Landscape Architecture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, USA.
2013–16    College of Forestry and Landscape Architecture, Bachelor of Landscape Architecture, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China.
2014           Vancouver International Summer Program, Architecture Program, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

Prizes & Awards
2022    Design Proposal for Chengdu Public Space in Community, First Prize.
2018    Pauline Tilton Kennedy Prize, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
2017    “Earth Roots Renascence” International Design Competition, Second Prize.
2014–15    Outstanding Student Award.
                     Second Prize Scholarship.
2013–14    Third Prize Scholarships.