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Born in Ohio and raised by my grandparents in Yueqing, a fishing town in southeastern China, I descend from generations of village physicians whose lineage I continue as a medical student and artist working in painting, calligraphy, installation, bookmaking, and social practice. â€‹ 

 

My work emerges from the dual training of medicine and art—two disciplines that touch, diagnose, render, sanctify, regulate, and imagine bodies.​ I return to the body as homeland, an archive of memory, silence, and survival. Moving between clinic and ritual, I examine how diasporic femme bodies absorb, resist, and remember systems of care and control. Guided by Traditional Chinese Medicine as a living epistemology, I work with herbal dyes, medicinal ink, mineral pigments, joss paper, and pharmaceutical ephemera to create sensorial environments that illuminate the relational nature of healing. My art is an imagined pharmacopeia that refuses purity, and instead braids science with spirituality, diasporic histories with anti-colonial futures.

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I received a B.A. from Yale University and am currently pursuing a MFA at California College of the Arts while studying at Stanford School of Medicine.  

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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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Grace Jin © 2025.

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