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b. USA, 1979
currently resides in Amsterdam, The Netherlands

EDUCATION

2006-2008 SANDBERG INSTITUUT - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Master of Fine Arts
2002-2004 NEW YORK UNIVERSITY - New York, NY
Tisch School of the Arts, Interactive Telecommunications Program
Master of Professional Studies, Specialization: Video Art/Interactive Installation
1997-2001 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY - Berkeley, CA
Bachelor of Arts in Psychology with Asian American Studies Minor

GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS/RECOGNITION

2007 Arts, Culture and Media Project Grant, Mama Cash - The Netherlands
2002-2004 Tisch School of the Arts Department Fellowship, NYU
2004 Nia Award - Velasco/ Vera Cruz Initiative Award, NYU
2003 ISM Grant from the Office for African American, Latino and Asian American Student Services, NYU
1997 PG&E Asian Employees Scholarship for Leadership, Community Service, and Academic Excellence

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2007 Postivisme stimuleert talent - Self portrait triptych European premiere, Club 11 - Amsterdam, NL
2004 2004 Hello Kitty Is Dead: Works by Vivian Wenli Lin, Protokoll Contemporary Art Galleria - Cluj, Romania
2004 Master’s Thesis Presentation, New York University - NY, NY

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2007

Bestemming AMS, 3rd International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, Kunsthal - Rotterdam, NL
Exquisite Crisis & Encounters: 24 Hours, Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU - NY, NY
Lost & Found, Theatrum Anatomicum, Waag Society - Amsterdam, NL

2006 PHRESH: A Celebration of Women in Hip Hop, Painted Bride Art Center - Philadelphia, PA
2005 Le Nu/The Nude, Incident.net - Paris, France
2004

D’Aucune (Histoires), Purple Institute & Spazio Lima Gallery - Milan, Italy
Imagining Ourselves: Self Portraits, online exhibit - United Kingdom
Interactive Telecommunications Program’s Spring Show, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU
AskThe Robot: Programmed!, The Frying Pan - NY, NY
Endlessism: Experimentations in Audio/Video/Text and Yo Mama!, The Guild Complex, Chopin Theater,
Chicago, IL

2003

Divine Women, Divine Work, Painted Bride Art Center - Philadelphia, PA
Aquarius: Interactive Art Exhibition, Swim Gallery: Lower East Side - NY, NY
Interactive Telecommunications Program’s Winter Show, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU
Defiance, Udi Aloni Project Room Chelsea Gallery - NY, NY
Art, Music, Video, The Tenderloft Gallery - San Francisco, CA

2000 Representing Reality, Pacific Film Archive - U.C. Berkeley, CA

SCREENINGS/FESTIVALS (selection)

2007 Nominee, Best Narrative category, The One Minutes Festival and Award Ceremony - Ghent, Belgium
Me Bike - The Dream Bike Festival, Westerparkterrain - Amsterdam, NL
Voices of Women Media Screening, Kargadoor - Utrecht, NL
The World Is Yours, H2O International Hip Hop Odyssey Film Festival - NY, NY
March 2007 One Minutes Compilation, Salto Broadcast - The Netherlands
2006

The One Minutes Festival, Het Ketelhuis - Amsterdam, NL
Screening on Women’s Cinema, Tek Festival - Rome, Italy
Girl Fest Hawaii - Honolulu, HI

2005 Video Activism, KF Contemporary Art Gallery and Cafe - Arad, Romania
Nominee, Short Narrative Category, Hip Hop Odyssey International Film Festival - New York, NY
Emerging Filmmaker’s Series - Rochester, NY
Reel Sista’s Film Festival - Vancouver, Canada

2004 Reel New York, Channel Thirteen, WNET - New York, NY
The Liberation of Everyday Life, The Women of Color Film Festival - Berkeley, CA
Bombs and Butterflies, Mango Tribe Benefit at Nightingales - NY, NY
What Means the World To You? Exploring Hip-Hop Values and Culture, Imagenation Film Festival, Columbia University and Oberia Dempsey Center - NY, NY

LIVE-VIDEO PERFORMANCE (selection)

2006 The One Minutes Festival, Het Ketelhuis - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2005 Sun, performance with G*A*M*E* Rebellion, Bowery Poetry Club - NY, NY

2004 Performances with the Magical Electric Tour (dj sniff, Yutaka Makino, Dill):
Laboratory of Experimental Sound (GAZZ)- St. Petersburg, Russia
Red Club - St. Petersburg, Russia
Manga Inc, Studio 181 - Brasov, Romania
Web Club - Bucharest, Romania

COMMISSIONS

2007 Names. & Stellar Babies. Video Wall and Installation, collaboration with artist, Merel van't Hullennaar, Cultureel Educatief Centrum Zuidoost - Amsterdam, NL

CONFERENCES/LECTURES/PANELS

2007 Voices of Women Media lecture, Women's Funding Network, Mama Cash - Amsterdam, NL
One Minutes Jr./UNICEF Video Workshop Facilitator - Lubumbashi and Kisangani, D.R. Congo
One Minutes Jr./UNICEF Video Workshop Facilitator - Johannesburg, South Africa
Voices of Women Media Workshop Director and Facilitator - Utrecht, NL
2004 Artist Lecture, St. Petersburg State University of Cinema and Television - St. Petersburg, Russia
2003 Platypus Amoeba Presentation, UBICOMP Ubiquitous Computing Conference - Seattle, WA
Guest Lecture, Global Action Project: Youth Making Media - New York, NY

COMMITTEES/CURATION

2005 5th Indo-American Arts Council Film Festival: Indian Independent & Diaspora Films - New York, NY
Shorts and documentary jury member
2005 38th Asian American International Film Festival - New York, NY
Shorts and features co-programmer
2003 Curator, Aquarius: Interactive Art Exhibition, Swim Gallery: Lower East Side - NY, NY

INTERVIEWS/PUBLICATIONS

2006 Interview, De Verenigde Sandbergen, Issue 52, September 2006 - The Netherlands
2004 Inspiration, Innovation & Interactivity, Connect: Information Technology at NYU, Review of Holler! Installation by kate Monahan, May 20, 2004
Reel New York, Video and Web interview, Channel Thirteen, WNET, June 17, 2004
Girl Fest Review, The Honolulu Advertiser, Zenaida Serrano, May 28, 2004
Extreme Asian Sessions 2004: traficul creste intre Arad/Cluj/Brasov/Bucuresti, IDEA Magazine, review by Stefan Tiron - Romania

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

2006 ZOMBOID! Film and Performance Project #1, by playwright Richard Foreman - NY, NY
2005 You Are My Sister music video, Antony & The Johnsons w/ Boy George, dir. by Charles Atla

2004 Turning, Whitney Biennial Off-site Performance, Antony & The Johnsons w/Charles Atlas - NY, NY
Views for Video, by Merce Cunningham and Charles Atlas - NY, NY
the black city, Harlemworld: metropolis as metaphor, Studio Museum of Harlem - NY, NY

2003 Sisters in the Smoke, Mango Tribe, HERE Arts Center - NY, NY
1999-2003 Ancestors in the Americas, PBS Documentary Series, Center for Educational Telecommunications - Berkeley, CA