Educations
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). Chicago, IL
Master of Fine Arts in Studio May 2011
Film, Video, New Media and Animation
Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree Earned 2009
Taipei National University of the Arts (TNUA). Taipei, Taiwan Sep. 2006- July 2007
Courses toward Master of Fine Arts in Painting and Drawing
National Kaohsiung Normal University (NKNU). Kaohsiung, Taiwan 2006
Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree Earned 2006
Experience
Founder
• Founder of the Stubborn Stone Productions (StubbornStone.com)
Artist and Curator
• Curator for On the Other Hand Animation Show at the Southside Hub of Production, Chicago 2011
• Visiting Artist, Artist Talk at Center on Halsted, Chicago 2010
• Coordinator for Butter Elbow Animation Screening at the Op Shop, Hyde Park Chicago 2009
• Visiting Artist, Animation Workshop at the Op Shop, Hyde Park, Chicago 2009
Director/Actress/Writer
• Director, Writer, Actress for Theater and Film
Teaching
• After School Matters Experimental Animation Instructor at Gallery 37, Summer 2011; Drawing and Sculpture Instructor at Roosevelt High School, Fall 2011- Spring 2012
• Teaching Assistant in Animation One, Sound to Image Animation, SAIC Chicago Fall 2009- Spring 2011
Gallery Assistant
• Gallery Assistant, Sullivan Gallery, Chicago Fall 2009- Spring 2010
Shows and Exhibitions
Performance/ Screening
• Actress: Cicada Killer Wasp, “The Pink Egg”, Directed by Jim Trainor Chicago, USA August 2011
• MFA/ BFA Thesis Presentation, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago May
• Push and Play Screening at the Nightingale, Chicago
• 15th Asian American Showcase in Gene Siskel Film Center 2010
• Coordinator for Butter Elbow Animation Screening at the Op Shop 2, Hyde Park Chicago
• Main Actress in “Single Waltz”, Graduate Student Film, Columbia College
• More Than Intimacy Screening at University of Chicago 2009
• The 3rd Undergraduate Film Festival at SAIC
• 13th Asian American Showcase, Gene Siskel Film Center 2008
Gallery
• “Asian Students and Young Artists Art Festival” at Hong-ik University Seoul, South Korea, 2011
• “Stories of Relativity”, Sullivan Gallery, Chicago Chicago, USA 2011
• “It’s Art 2” at Angela Bryant Gallery at Pop-Up Art at the Loop 2010
• “Encounter With Distance” in conjunction with14th Asian American Showcase, Gene Siskel Film Center 2009
• Solo Exhibition “Foating is Different From Flying” At The Gallery Kaohsiung, Taiwan 2009
• Visions in the Nunnery Group Exhibition at Open Visions London, UK May. 2009
Honors
• MFA Fellowship Recipient 2011 from SAIC Chicago, USA 2011
• “Banana Project”, selected to permanent digital collection for Nagoya City University Graduate School, Department of Design and Architecture Nagoya, Japan 2009
• Second Prize, The 3rd Undergraduate Film/Video Festival, SAIC Chicago, USA 2009
