Grace Jin is an artist rooted between the Bay Area and southeastern China, where she comes from a lineage of village healers. Born in Ohio and raised by her grandparents in Yueqing, a fishing town between the Yandang Mountains and the Pacific Ocean, Grace works across painting, calligraphy, installation, and performance to explore caregiving as a creative practice, weaving together medicine, memory, and rituals of tending to life.
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Drawing from traditional Chinese medicine and decolonial feminist practices of care, Grace approaches painting as a site of embodied knowledge and repair. Ink, iodine, medical gauze, mulberry paper, incense ash, and herbal and mineral pigments become collaborators, each carrying their own material intelligence. Her work imagines healing not as cure, but as the ongoing work of restoring relationships—with one another, with ancestors, with land, and with the more-than-human world.
Grace received a BA from Yale and MFA from California College of the Arts while completing medical training at Stanford. Her work has been exhibited at ICA San Francisco, the Wattis Institute, Minnesota Street Projects, Root Division, Stanford Hospital, SOMArts, and supported by the Fulbright Research Grant, Murphy Cadogan Scholarship, Barclay Simpson MFA Award, Stanford Medicine Program in Health Equity, and the Dorothy Summers Visual Art Prize.
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Selected Exhibitions
2026
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA
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​
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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
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