Grace Jin was born in Ohio and raised by her grandparents in Yueqing, a fishing town in southeastern China bordered by the Yandang mountains and Pacific Ocean. She comes from four generations of physicians and village healers, a lineage she carries today as an artist and medical student living on unceded Ohlone land.
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Grace’s practice in art, just as in medicine, is a ritual quest for healing—using painting, calligraphy, bookmaking, installation and performance. Her work weaves personal and collective histories of migration, blood and chosen kinships, decolonial theory and ancestral spirituality to create matrilineal heirlooms for restorative futures.
Grace received a B.A. from Yale College. She is pursuing a MFA from California College of the Arts and studying at Stanford School of Medicine. Her work has been exhibited at galleries and institutions in San Francisco, Oakland, Albany, Stanford, and New Haven.​​​​​​
Upcoming
For the Time Being, Institute of Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA
Rooted, Ruth’s Table, San Francisco, CA
Selected Exhibitions
2025​
KARL, COL Gallery at Levi’s Plaza, San Francisco, CA
Burning Refuge, Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, MA
​Beyond Boundaries, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA
TRANSIT: How We Move, State of California Building, San Francisco, CA
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2024
APAture: Return, Kearny Street Workshop, San Francisco, CA
Introductions, Root Division, San Francisco, CA
63rd Annual Potrero Hill Artists' Exhibition, San Francisco Public Library, CA
One More Time, Good Mother Studio, Oakland, CA
In Reverence of the Feminine, Abrams Claghorn Gallery, Albany, CA
Petrichor, Upper Market Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Nebula: Spiritual Expression in Hybridity, PLAySPACE Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Medicine and the Muse Symposium, Stanford, CA
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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
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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
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2018
Yale on York, New Haven, CT
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