Born in Ohio and raised by her grandparents in a fishing town in southeastern China, Grace Jin descends from generations of village physicians whose lineage she continues as a medical student and multidisciplinary artist. Her practice emerges from the convergence of art and medicine—two systems that have historically touched, classified, rendered, and imagined bodies. Working across painting, calligraphy, installation, bookmaking, and social practice, Grace constructs counter-archives that challenge biomedical and art-historical regimes of visibility.
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Moving between clinic and ritual, Grace examines how diasporic femme bodies absorb, resist, and remember systems of care and control. Guided by Traditional Chinese Medicine as living epistemology, she works with herbal dyes, medicinal ink, mineral pigments, joss paper, and pharmaceutical ephemera to create sensorial environments that illuminate the relational nature of healing. Her practice is an imagined pharmacopeia that refuses purity, and instead braids science with spirituality, diasporic histories with anti-colonial futures.
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Grace holds a B.A. from Yale University, and is pursuing a MFA at California College of the Arts while studying at Stanford School of Medicine. She has worked with organizations including Fulbright in Taiwan, UNICEF in Angola, Covax, Gavi, and the WHO in Geneva to expand access to healthcare for migrants and marginalized communities. Grace has received awards including the Murphy Cadogan award, Fulbright research scholarship, Dorothy Summers Visual Art Prize, Rotary Global Grant, and Stanford Medical Humanities Award.
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Selected Exhibitions
2025​
Murphy & Cadogan Contemporary Art Awards Exhibition, SOMArts, San Francisco
For the Time Being, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICASF), San Francisco, CA
New Spring, Silicon Valley Asian Art Center, Santa Clara, CA
Mother Call Me, Bass & Reiner Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Dorothy Summers Visual Art Prize Exhibition, Stanford Hospital, Stanford, CA
Matrilineal, CCA PLAySPACE, San Francisco, CA
Rooted, Ruth’s Table, San Francisco, CA
KARL, COL Gallery at Levi’s Plaza, San Francisco, CA
TRANSIT: How We Move, State of California Building, San Francisco, CA
​Beyond Boundaries, Mercury 20 Gallery, Oakland, CA
Burning Refuge, Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, MA
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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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