AWARDS

2024             AXA Art Prize, NYC

                         Finalist

2022             Scholastic Arts and Writing, NYC

                         National Gold Medal, Art Portfolio ($10,000); National Gold Medal, Painting; Gold Key, Drawing & Illustration;                              Honorable Mention, Mixed Media

                    ArtNow 2022, Los Gatos, CA

                         Annual Santa Clara County Juried High School Exhibition’s Best of Show, Mike & Alyce Parsons Scholarship

                         ($5,000)

                    1st Art Gallery, Limassol, Cyprus 

                         Art & Design 6th Annual Art Scholarship ($1,000)

                    Against the Grain Productions, Dallas, TX 

                         Artistic Scholarship ($1,000): awarded to exemplary Asian American high school seniors, undergraduates,

                         and grad students 

                    National Scholastic Press Association, Minneapolis, MN

                         Honor Roll of Student Journalists

2021             National League of American Pen Women, Washington, D.C.

                         2022 Art Scholarship ($1,000); Vinnie Ream Honorable Mention

                    Scholastic Arts and Writing, NYC

                         Silver Key for Digital Art; Silver Key for Painting

                    Columbia Scholastic Press Association 2021 Digital Gold Circle Awards, NYC

                         1st Place for Art/Illustration Hand-drawn; 3rd Place for General Feature; Certificate of Merit: Sports News;

                         Certificate of Merit: Art/Illustration Hand-drawn; Certificate of Merit: Page One Design

                    National Scholastic Press Association, Minneapolis, MN

                         Story of the Year: Honorable Mention for Feature Story

2020             Scholastic Arts and Writing, NYC

                         National Gold Medal & Herblock Award for Editorial Cartoon ($1,000); National Silver Medal for Painting

EXPERIENCE

2024             Sunshine University by Colleen Medeiros-Bernier, Illustrator                     Providence, RI

                      Illustrated Medeiros-Bernier’s children’s book "Sunshine University” and communicated remotely to create

                      the front and back cover and twenty-nine pages of vignettes. 

2023-Now    The Brown Journal of Healthcare Advancement, Illustrator                         Providence, RI

2022-23       Andre Lee Bassuet, Book Artist, Intern                                                                 Providence, RI

                      Collaborated with Bassuet on "Roots: Korean Diaspora" book, assisted a printmaking workshop at nonprofit

                      community arts center AS220, and practiced book-binding and silkscreening.

                      Roots: Korean Diaspora, Collaborator                                                                  Providence, RI

                      Worked with a dozen Korean artists to publish handmade, stab bound collaborative books in a limited edition

                      of 100 about the Korean diaspora experience. Pages are letterpressed, silkscreened, risographed, and sewn.

                      Acquired by Brown University’s John Hay Collection. 

2022             The Brown Daily Herald, Illustrator                                                                     Providence, RI

                      Brown RISD Game Design Club Artist Team                                                                 Providence, RI

                      Collaborated on Private Ear, a 2D point-and-click, audio-based game about a murder mystery in a 1980s

                      Chinese fishing village 

                      The Campanile, Editor-in-Chief                                                                               Palo Alto, CA

                      Helped plan and lead student-run journalism classes with four other editors-in-chief; oversaw three-week

                      production cycles 

2021             The Campanile, Multimedia Editor                                                                          Palo Alto, CA

                      Managed various social media accounts and posts (@palycampanile on Instagram); implemented additional

                      guidelines to the credit-tracking system for the newspaper staff.

                      Camp MAC Leadership Team                                                                                    Palo Alto, CA

                      Collaborated with five other student journalists to plan, advertise, and run Camp Mac. Led the counselor and

                      design teams.

2020             The Campanile, Illustrator                                                                                         Palo Alto, CA

                      Camp MAC Design Team                                                                                             Palo Alto, CA

                       Illustrated the graphics and cover for the final printed magazine authored by 2020 campers.