education

Harvard College (BA) Brandeis University (PhD)

residencIes

SEAR Residency (Spring 2023) Vermont Studio Center Residency (August 2023) Umbrella Arts (Fall of 2023) Storefront Art Projects (January of 2024)

Expensive Orphanage (2020), oil and acrylic on canvas.

artist statement

Growing up moving between China and America, having lived in many distinctive neighborhoods, I have been a part of a wide spectrum of communities that don’t overlap. My art reflects the struggle to make sense of my place and identity by making connections across time, societies, and places. R.B. Kitaj defined a diasporist artist as someone who lives and paints in two societies at the same time. The unsettled nature of a diasporist's existence is an important source of inspiration for my art. For the immigrant, the ocean no longer establishes a definitive barrier. The internet, for instance, enables a constant partial exposure to people and places from the past. Memory and imagination are both fed and interrupted by this, and accounting for one’s origins and place can be more problematic than ever. My works respond to this condition. 

museum collection

“Expensive Orphanage” was purchased by Danforth Art Museum in 2021 for its permanent collection.

Booth of Jen Tough Gallery, Santa Fe Art Fair (2018)

Really, Matter and Light Fine Art, Boston, Mass. (2017)

Artful Piano Newton (2017)

Danforth Art Annual, Danforth Art Museum (2016)

Precedents/Currents: Ten Artists in Conversation with Newton's Past, curated by Andrea Foggle Plotkin and Delanie Wise, Jackson Homestead Museum, Newton, Mass. (2016)

One Childhood, Solo Exhibit, New Art Center, Newton, Mass. (2016)

Cut It Out, Gallery One Visual Art Center, Ellensburg, Wash. (2016)

Concerning the Spiritual in Abstract Art, curated by Ian Corbin, Matter and Light Fine Art (2015-2016)

Paintings by Jasmine Chen, Coldwell Banker Newton Center Branch (2014)

Off the Wall, juried by Dina Deitsch, Danforth Art Museum (2013)

(First Prize) Newton Art Association Bonnar Show, juried by Jessica Roscio, New Art Center (2013)

(First Prize) Newton Art Association Fall Exhibit, juried by Howard Yezerski, Newton Free Library (2012)

Jasmine Chen and Julie Klein, two-person show juried by Katherine French, New Art Center (2012)

Community of Artists, juried by Katherine French, Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, Mass. (2012)

Brandeis University Faculty and Staff Art Show, Waltham, Mass. (2008)

selected exhibitions

(Upcoming) Matresense, curated by Catherine LeComte-Lecce, MassArt x Sowa,(June 1-July 14, 2024)

(Upcoming) People and Places, curated by Ellen Weinberg, North Hill Gallery, Needham, Mass (Summer 2024)

(Upcoming) Artists-in-Residence Art Exhibition, Umbrella Arts, Concord, Mass (Sept 2024)

Tidal Shift, curated by Hilary Irons, UNE Art Gallery, Biddeford, Maine (Jan-May 2024)

BodyWork + Practice, Storefront Art Projects, Watertown, Mass. (Sept-Oct 2023)

Inside/Out, two-person exhibit curated by Marguerite White, BB&N Gallery, Cambridge, Mass (2023)

(Juror’s Choice) Red, juried by Dina Deisch, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge, Mass. (2022-23)

Danforth Art Museum Permanent Collection Exhibit, Danforth, Framingham, Mass. (2022-23)

The New Drawing Room, group exhibit curated by Pam Hart, MassArt x Sowa Gallery, Boston, Mass. (2022)

National Prize Show, juried by Barbara O’Brien, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge, Mass. (2022)

(Second Prize) 22nd Annual Roddy Exhibit, juried by Sam Adams, Concord Center for the Visual Arts (2021)

Holding Duality Still, Lana Gordon Gallery, Rockport, Mass. (2021)

Family Circle, curated by Jessica Roscio, Danforth Art Museum at Framingham State University (2020)

Women Artists, West Suburban Boston, curated by Leslie Stacks, Massachusetts

State House (2019-2020)