His practice begins with everyday objects, materials, and lived environments, focusing on how people use, arrange, and alter their surroundings, and how these arrangements, in turn, shape ways of living and perceiving. In his photographs, familiar objects and spaces depart from their expected states, remaining recognizable yet difficult to name.
Education
2014–2018 BFA Photography, Academy of Art University, San Francisco, USA
2013–2014 Diploma of Arts & Creative Industries, Curtin College, Perth, Australia
Solo Exhibitions
2019 Speechless, SPACE PLACE Art Gallery, Nizhny Tagil, Russia
2018 Boredom, 625 Sutter Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026 A Quiet Familiarity, Angle Gallery, Shanghai, China
2022 Half-Open Door, Studio Gallery, Shanghai, China
2022 IN THE WINTER GARDEN, B ARTS Space, Shanghai, China
2021 The Village of Nowhere, Three Shadows Photography Center, Beijing, China
2020 AM Art Space, Shanghai, China
2019 Everything I Ever Learnt, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK
2018 A Piece of Red Cloth, 688 Sutter Gallery, San Francisco, USA
2018 Group Exhibition, 79 New Montgomery Gallery, San Francisco, USA
2018 Academy of Art Spring Show, San Francisco, USA
2015 Fairmont’s Gallery of Art, San Francisco, USA
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