Grace Jin is a multidisciplinary artist and medical student descended from generations of village physicians in Zhejiang. Working with materia medica across painting, calligraphy, bookmaking, and installation, she investigates art and medicine as cultural systems that shape visibility, legibility, and power over bodies. Drawing from Western and traditional Chinese medicine alongside Buddhist, Christian, and Daoist thought, Jin creates counter-canons reintegrating ancestral healing as a practice of liberation and diasporic remembrance.
Grace holds a B.A. from Yale, is pursuing a MFA at California College of the Arts and MD at Stanford School of Medicine. She has worked with Fulbright in Taiwan, UNICEF in Angola, Covax, Gavi, and the WHO in Geneva to expand healthcare access for marginalized communities. Grace has received awards including the Murphy Cadogan scholarship, Fulbright research grant, 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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News
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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