Education

Master of Fine Arts in Illustration, 2025 Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Providence 

Bachelor of Fine Arts in General Fine Arts, 2021 Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Baltimore

Professional Experience

2024 Faculty of Record, RISD Illustration Department, Providence, RI

Winter 2025 On The Road, Illustration

2023 - 2025 Teaching Assistant, RISD, Providence, RI

Spring 2025 Senior Portfolio, Illustration

Fall 2024 What’s Your Story, Illustration

Spring 2024 Cover To Cover, Illustration

Fall 2023 Comics, Manga, Bandes Dessinées, Illustration

2023 Woodshop Monitor, RISD, Providence, RI

2023 Creative Programming, Zenus Art Studio, Shanghai, China

2023 Public Illustration Designer for Hai Bang Metro Station, Guangzhou Metro Group Co.,Ltd, Guangzhou, China

2022 Graphic Novel Lettering, Music Is The Weapon, Canada

2022 Editor & Media Operation Director, Eighteenth Literature Corporation, Nanjing, China

2022 Bench Jeweler, Wear Ever Jewelry, Alexandria, VA

2022 Teaching Assistant, Baltimore Design School, Baltimore, MD

2021 Studio Internship, Baltimore Jewelry Center, Baltimore, MD

2021 Gallery Internship, Current Space, Baltimore, MD

2020 Art Handling Volunteer, VisArts, Baltimore, MD

Exhibition / Residency

2025 Student Artists' Book Contest Exhibit, Fleet Library, Providence, RI

2024 Coalesce: Happenstance, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI

2024 Illustration Grad Cohort Show, ISB Gallery, Providence, RI

2024 AS WE ARE the 2nd Annual Pride Show, ISB Gallery, Providence, RI

2024 纪念品橱窗 The Nostalgic Collection, Tree Art Museum, Beijing, China

2024 Arriving At The Exit, RISD Illustration MFA Biennial, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI

2024 Student Artists' Book Contest Exhibit, Fleet Library, Providence, RI

2023 November Is It’s Own Season, RISD, Providence, RI

2023 Esther Du: Primal Item Artifact, Baltimore Jewelry Center, Baltimore, MD

2023 Three-Month Emerging Artist Residency, Baltimore Jewelry Center, Baltimore, MD

2022 Poetry and Fish, Eighteenth Literature Corporation, Online Exhibition

2022 Liminality: 2022 Visual Art Exhibition of Asian Artists in America, Times Arts Gallery, New York City

2022 Student Jewelry Exhibition, Baltimore Jewelry Center, MD

2021 观象-诗歌意象视觉艺术展 Skandhas - Poetry Visual Art Exhibition, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China

2021 异地登陆 Remote Landing, Langyuan Station, Beijing, China

2021 Meridian Prologue, Current Space, Baltimore, MD

2021 Commencement: The 2021 Show, MICA, Baltimore, MD

2019 Intro to GFA Show, MICA, Baltimore, MD 

Fellowships / Awards

2024 RISD Conference & Exhibition Fund, Providence, RI

2024 RISD Trek NYC, RISD, Providence, RI

2024 RISD Graduate Commons Grant. RISD, RI

2023 RISD Fellowship, RISD, Providence, RI

2023 Graduate Assistantship, RISD, Providence, RI

2022 Spring Class Scholarship, Baltimore Jewelry Center, Baltimore, MD

2020 Competitive Merit Achievement Award, MICA, Baltimore, MD

2020 Dean’s List Spring 2020, MICA, Baltimore, MD

2018 Dean’s List Spring 2018, MICA, Baltimore, MD

2018 Competitive Distinguished International Student Award, MICA, Baltimore,MD

2017 Trustee Award, MICA, Baltimore, MD

2017 Academic Honors Scholarship, MICA, Baltimore, MD

2017 Starr Foundation Scholarship, MICA, Baltimore, MD 

Private / Public Collection

2024 The Outcast, Riso Print graphic novel, 5.5”x 8”, 24 pages, The Met Museum, Thomas J. Watson Library, New York, NY

2024 The Researcher, Mixed Media Artist Book, 5.5” x 8”, 50 pages, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), North Adams, MA

2021 Three Stories, 33” x 14”, oil painting, Current Space, Private Collector

Art Fair

2025

Unbound 2025, Providence, RI

SI MoCCA Arts Fest, New York, NY

Jersey Art Book Fair 2025, Jersey City, NJ

2024

MICE, Boston, MA

Brooklyn Book Festival, New York City, NY

RISD Spring Fair, Providence, RI

Unbound 2024, Providence, RI

2021

PhoPho Fair, Three Shadows, Beijing, China

Langyuan x Zuoshu Book Fair, Beijing, China

2020

Living Page Art Festival, Beijing, China

Postwave Art Festival, Shanghai, China

Singularity Plan Festival, Guangzhou, China

ShyShy Festival, Changsha, China

UNFOLD 2020, Shanghai, China

Camp Street Market, Beijing, China

Mumu Miaohui Market, Beijing, China

Mao Art Festival, Nanjing, China

Seeyoo Art Festival, Hangzhou, China 

2019

Nanjing Art Book Fair (NABF) 2019, Nanjing, China