has a BFA and MFA and has taught art from high school to university levels. She has been a recipient of the Glide Memorial Grant, The Graff Travel Grant, and the Melon Grant distributed through New Jersey Performing Arts Center. She has also received a New Jersey Council on the Humanities Grant for the purpose of documenting the history of the Chinese Community that lived in Newark for 100 years. She has written a book about her research and findings. The book is entitled: When Newark had a Chinatown and is available at Amazon. In fall of 2018-winter of 2019, she exhibited in - Circles and Circuits: Chinese Caribbean Art, at the California African American Museum in Los Angeles and the California Chinese American History Museum.  The exhibit has a catalog written by Alexandra Chang and published by Duke University Press, available at Amazon.  In 2019 her work was exhibited and published in the catalogs of the 24th Annual Art Ability Exhibition in Bryn Mawr, Pa., where she won Best in Show and  published in the catalog of Verum Ultimum Art Gallery in Portland, Or. She has exhibited her video and photography works in galleries and museums in the US and abroad including the Museum of Modern Art, the Queens Museum of Art, the Newark Museum, Museum of Contemporary Arts and Crafts in New York City, Biblioteque Nacional de Paris, The Musee D'Art Moderne De La Ville De Paris, Husby Konsthalle, Stockholm, Sweden, and Estesio Gallery, Beddingstrande, Sweden as well as The Chinese American Museum in Los Angeles.   Her photographs, video and multimedia works are in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, NYC, African American Museum of Life and Culture, Dallas, Texas, Alexander Bonin Gallery in Chelsea, The American Express Corporation and the Bilha Museum in Portugal. In 2021 her work became part of the collection of the Zimmerli Museum in New Brunswick, NJ.   She continues to exhibit annually and work in her studio daily.