Grace Jin comes from a long line of village healers in Zhejiang, whose lineage she carries as an artist and medical student on Ohlone land. Through painting, calligraphy, bookmaking, installation and performance, Grace works with medicine as a medium to challenge the colonial clinical gaze and reintegrate ancestral healing practices. Materia medica—iodine, incense, herbs and minerals from traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and textile dyeing—become collaborators. Pulse rhythms, histopathology imaging, and daily gestures of care flow into the studio as mark-making. Her work proposes that medicine and art are, at their deepest roots, the same practice: an attempt to restore wholeness to a body, a community, a world.
Grace holds a B.A. from Yale College, is studying at Stanford School of Medicine and pursuing her MFA at California College of the Arts. She has received awards including the Murphy Cadogan scholarship, Barclay Simpson MFA award, Fulbright research grant, Dorothy Summers Visual Art Prize, Rotary Global Grant, and Stanford Medical Humanities Award.
Selected Exhibitions
2026
Barclay Simpson MFA Award Exhibition, CCA Novack Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2025
Murphy & Cadogan Contemporary Art Awards Exhibition, SOMArts, San Francisco
For the Time Being, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICASF), San Francisco, CA
KARL: Unseen Histories, COL Gallery at Levi’s Plaza, San Francisco, CA
Mother Call Me, Bass & Reiner Gallery at Minnesota Street Projects, San Francisco, CA
Dorothy Summers Visual Art Prize Exhibition, Stanford Hospital, Stanford, CA
Burning Refuge, Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, MA
Beyond Boundaries, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA
New Spring, Silicon Valley Asian Art Center, Santa Clara, CA
Matrilineal, CCA PLAySPACE, San Francisco, CA
Rooted, Ruth’s Table, San Francisco, CA
TRANSIT: How We Move, State of California Building, San Francisco, CA
2024
Introductions, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
APAture: Return, Kearny Street Workshop, San Francisco, CA
In Reverence of the Feminine, Abrams Claghorn Gallery, Albany, CA
Petrichor, Upper Market Gallery, San Francisco, CA
63rd Annual Potrero Hill Artists' Exhibition, San Francisco Public Library, CA
One More Time, Good Mother Studio, Oakland, CA
Nebula: Spiritual Expression in Hybridity, PLAySPACE Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Medicine and the Muse Symposium, Stanford, CA
2023
Comfort Room, Holt Visiting Artist Exhibition with Jenifer Wofford, Coulter Gallery, Stanford, CA
Root Division Studio Artist Residency 2023-2024, San Francisco, CA
ArtX, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA
Maitri Benefit Auction, 2358 MRKT Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2022
Extinction Rebellion, Holt Visiting Artist Exhibition with Kim Anno, Coulter Gallery, Stanford, CA
Tres Deseos en el Bosque with Luciana Rago at Shodo Creativo, Madrid, Spain
Calligraphy at Lunar New Year Gala, Chinese Cultural Center, Pittsburgh, PA
2018
Yale on York, New Haven, CT
Selected Press
Healing Through Memory: Matrilineal, Rewind Review Respond (Volume 11), by Ashley Spencer
Merging Creative Vision with Medical Training, Where Arts meets Medicine | Stanford Health Care, by Kyra SyCip
AAPI Voices in Contemporary Art, KARL at Levi's Plaza, hosted by Abby Chen and COL Gallery