Born: Taipei, Taiwan
Lives: New York, New York

As an inhabitant of non-places of generic cities, I have always been concerned with the subject of cultural hybridity. I infuse my work with imageries that spring from my memories of nomadic experience of drifting among various cultures and traditions. It is due to my transnational identity that I am able to stand as an outsider and view places and events through the lens of a tourist. Consequently, my paintings functions as snapshots that documents my travel.

From roaming through fragments of contemporary space with mixtures of historical ruins and commercial products, the paintings depict the obscurity of cultural boundaries today. There are no human interactions; everyone is indulged in their own chain of thoughts and their own material obsessions. People abandoning traditional theater in search of excitement through gossip newspapers and artificial settings such as man-made island are all common scenes in my paintings. This idea of human isolation that is constantly illustrated in my paintings portrays my belief of how losing culture leads to a loss or changes in human communication.

My most recent work, the Pet Series, takes old Chinese tales that incorporates man and animal interaction and re-illustrating them to fit the contemporary context of man and pets relationships. These paintings depict present city trends of choosing pets over other human companions. The work transforms traditional narratives into urban mythologies that further emphasize the changes that are taking place in our contemporary society.