Grace Jin is a Chinese American artist and medical student in San Francisco, working in painting, calligraphy and installation. She comes from four generations of village physicians in Zhejiang, a lineage she carries forward through her practice reclaiming art and medicine as entwined ways of care and tending to life.
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Grace's work is a material and somatic reintegration of ancestral healing practices. Working in collaboration with rather than mastery over materials—ink, herbs, mineral pigments, Wenzhou mulberry paper, and the five elements—Grace paints to alchemize studies in biomedical science, traditional Chinese medicine, Buddhist, Christian, Taoist spirituality and decolonial feminist theory to summon new worlds of collective abundance.
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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.​​​​​​
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Selected Exhibitions
2025​
For the Time Being, Institute of Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA
Rooted, Ruth’s Table, San Francisco, CA
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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