I utilize my bicultural background as a teaching artist and muralist professionally trained in Eastern and Western visual art to teach and practice art. I am a full-time teaching artist at North Iowa Area Community College in Mason City, Iowa. I am available for commissions, festivals/fairs, or community murals.

I earned an M.F.A. in painting and drawing at Texas Tech University. Since then, I have taught at several universities, including the University of Southern California, the University of Brunei Darussalam, the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, Hong Kong Baptist University, and the University of Hong Kong. I have received several fellowships and residencies, including a Fulbright U.S. Scholarship, VSA Arts Teaching Artist Fellowship, Hong Kong Arts Development Council Fellowship for Artistic Development, Villa Barr Residency in Michigan, Kingsbrae International Residence for the Arts in Canada, Bryn Du Artist-in-Residence in Ohio, Bethany Arts Community in New York, Soaring Gardens in Pennsylvania, and I-Park in Connecticut.

In addition to my 24 community murals, my paintings have been exhibited in 16 solo exhibitions and more than 200 international and national exhibitions including the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Italy, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Japan, China, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines and Hong Kong.

My artwork has been exhibited in venues such as the United Nations Headquarters, Chelsea Art Museum and American Council for the Arts Exhibition Space in New York City, World Bank Art Gallery and The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington DC, Locust Grove Museum in New York, MacNider Art Museum in Iowa, Clymer Museum and Gallery in Washington, Amarillo Museum of Art and Brownsville Museum of Fine Art in Texas, Fine Arts Museums in New Mexico, WaterWorks Art Museum in Montana, Masur Museum of Art in Louisiana, Pennsylvania State Capitol in Harrisburg, San Diego Museum of Art in California, the US Ambassadors’ Residences in Macedonia, Sunny Art Center in London, Joseph D. Carrier Art Gallery in Canada, Kunstquartier Bethanien in Berlin, Atelier Montez in Rome, National Academy of Art in Bulgaria, Osaka Prefecture University in Japan, National Institute of Education Art Gallery in Singapore, Poh-Chang Academy of Arts in Thailand, Museum of Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts in China, and Hong Kong Museum of Art in Hong Kong.