I’m a writer, curator, and organizer from and based in Los Angeles. My practice takes many forms and is often collaborative.

I’m also a PhD candidate in Comparative Media and Culture at the University of Southern California.

My writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, the LA Times, X-TRA Contemporary Art Journal, Zocálo Public Square, among others. I’m currently working on exhibitions at the Vincent Price Art Museum in Los Angeles and the CAPC Musée d’art Contemporain in Bordeaux. I was the recipient of a 2022 Aratani Community Advancement Research Endowment Grant and the 2021 Étant Donnés Curatorial Fellowship.

I’m an editor, too. Mashinka Firunts Hakopian’s The Institute of Other Intelligences was published by X Artists’ Books last year. The republication of Gene Oishi’s In Search of Hiroshi will be released by Kaya Press in 2024. 

I work with the estate and archive of Matsumi “Mike” Kanemitsu. As a community organizer, I am embedded in a history of art and activism in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles. I’m on the Steering Committee of Vigilant Love and I work with Sustainable Little Tokyo’s Arts Action Committee.

I co-directed a small, independent exhibition space in Paris from 2014-2016. I’ve worked in public art, galleries, non-profits, museums, and artist studios in Los Angeles and in France.

At USC, I’m a member of the Creativity, Theory, Politics Research Cluster. I’ve organized and moderated other public programs about the intersections of art and activism.

My dissertation engages with a single building in the downtown Los Angeles neighborhood now known as the Arts District to untangle issues of diasporic cultural production, historic preservation, and urban development. I am particularly interested in re-assessing the history of Los Angeles, its spatial and cultural organization, and re-occurring waves of gentrification through the lens of Asian and Asian American artists living and working in the city from the 1960s on.

I have an MA in Curatorial Studies from the Sorbonne and a BA in Art History from Pitzer College.