CV

Born

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, currently living & working in Oakland, California.

Solo Exhibitions

2007	Distant Familiar. Desa Art Gallery . Oakland, CA
2005	Taking Off! . Space 180 . San Francisco, CA
2005	Paintings & Prints . L’Amyx Café . Oakland, CA
2004	Hastings Women’s Law Journal’s 15th Anniversary Symposium . UC Hastings School of the Law . San Francisco, CA
	Marketplace . Café Diem . Oakland, CA
2003	Out at Last: Recent and Past Works . Energy Art Gallery . Oakland, CA

Group Exhibitions

2010	One Year Anniversary Show . Betti Ono Gallery . Oakland, CA
	Femme Cartel . Classic Cars West Gallery . Oakland, CA
2009	Accomplices: Profiles of Asian Women . Asian Resource Gallery . Oakland, CA
	Face: Contemporary Chinese-American Artists . University Art Museum , California State University at Chico
2007	Three . Guerilla Café . Berkeley, CA
	East Bay Open Studios . ProArts Gallery . Oakland, CA
	Present Tense . Chinese Culture Center . San Francisco, CA
2006	We’re Here . GreenRice Gallery . San Jose, CA
	As Is . ProArts Gallery . Oakland, CA
2004	Traces of the Hundred Viets . San Jose Public Library . San Jose, CA
	Apature . SoMarts Cultural Center . San Francisco, CA
	Piecing Together: Emerging Vietnamese Women Artists . Asian Resource Gallery . Oakland, CA
	H’Art for CoVN: Art show & auction benefiting Creating Opportunities in Viet Nam . Palo Alto, CA
	Hoa Nở / Bloom: Our First Breath . Galeria de la Raza . San Francisco, CA
	East Bay Municipal Utility District Administration Building . Oakland, CA
2003	Apature . SoMarts Cultural Center . San Francisco, CA
	Image and Text . Canvas Gallery Café . San Francisco

Education

University of California, Berkeley

B.A. with Honors in English Literature, 1999

Intro to Visual Thinking

San Francisco City College

Advanced Painting with Glen Moriwaki

Contemporary Art History with Glen Moriwaki

Berkeley City College

Modern Art History with James Linnehan

California College of the Arts Extension

Painting: Materials & Process with Jamie Brunson

Art Smart: Breaking into the Art World with Dee Hibbert-Jones

San Francisco Art Institute Adult Community Education

Advanced Painting with Glenn Hirsch

Image / Text workshop with Pamela Lanza

Commissions

Mural at Casa de Cultura, Berkeley, CA

Publications

The Heart’s Traffic (cover art), 2009, Arktoi Books

As Is: A Collection of Vietnamese-American Works, 2006, The Vietnamese Artists Collective.

The Way We Pay: Poems by Thien-Bao Phi (cover + chapter art), 2004

Ibid Spring 1997 (cover + chapter art),  Literary Journal of the English Undergraduate Association, UC Berkeley

Teachers’ Calendar 1994 (cover art), Warren Eukel Foundation

Awards

1995     First place (Painting) . Orinda Arts Council Competition

Curatorial Experience

2004     Hoa Nở / Bloom: Our First Breath . Galeria de la Raza . San Francisco, CA

Teaching

ASUC Art Studio, Berkeley

Watercolor Basics, 2008

Contemplative Drawing, 2008

Kearny Street Workshop, San Francisco

Drawing As a Way of Seeing, 6-part class, 2008

Contemplative Drawing Practicum, 2008

East Bay Meditation Center, Oakland

Reflections on Impermanence, 3-part series, 2010

Drawing for Greater Awareness workshop, 2010

Drawing for Greater Awareness 4-week course, 2008

Drawing in Today’s Dharma Landscape, drawing workshop, talk & meditation, 2008

Reflections on Impermanence, 2010

Private Workshops, Courses & Consultation

Creative Consultation, various clients 2008 – 2010

Drawing As a Way of Seeing 6 week course, Oakland, CA, 2008

Drawing on the Path workshop, Oakland, CA 2008

Contemplative Drawing workshop, Laguna Beach, CA 2008

Drawing As a Way of Seeing workshop, Oakland, CA 2007

UC Botanical Garden, Berkeley

Watercolor Botanicals workshop, 2009