Photography and Pop-up Books

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025 Berman Museum of Art, TBA
2024 Monument Lab at Grounds for Sculpture, Slow Motion, Hamilton, NJ
Nextfab, Unprecedented Novelty, Philadelphia, PA
2023 Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Wishing Tree, Bainbridge Island, WA
2022 Medium & Message: The Book Art of Colette Fu and Lothar Meggendorfer, The Rosenbach,
Philadelphia, PA
2021 What the Butterfly Dragon Taught Me: Dimensional Stories in Paper, Center for Book Arts, NYC
2020 Wonderer/Wanderer, National Museum of Women in the Arts ONLINE
2019 Taubman Museum, We Are Tiger Dragon People, Roanoke, VA
2018 Phillips Museum, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA
Pyramid Atlantic Arts Center, For the Ancestors, Hyattsville, MD
2017 Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, Tao Huan Yuan Ji: Utopia, Source of the Peach Blossoms,
Philadelphia, PA
For Our Ancestors, CFEVA Bebe Benoliel Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Wonderer/Wanderer: The Pop-ups of Colette
Fu, Washington DC
2015 Georgetown University, Land of Deities, Washington DC
Center for Book Arts, We are Tiger Dragon People, Featured Artist Project, NYC
2013 Jaffe Center for Book Arts, Boca Raton, FL
2013 Towson University Asian Arts Gallery, We Are Tiger Dragon People, Towson, MD
2012 Philadelphia Airport, Terminal D, We Are Tiger Dragon People
University City Arts League, Photo Binge, Philadelphia, PA
2011 Philadelphia Athenaeum, Haunted Philly, Philadelphia, PA
2009 University City Arts League, Philadelphia, PA
2006 Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Haunted Philadelphia, Provincetown, MA
2004 University of Virginia Art Gallery, Photo Binge, Charlottesville, VA
2003 Artisan Works, Photo Binge, Rochester, NY

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024
Vico's Spiral: Half Century of Artists' Books, Center for Book Arts, NYC
CFEVA at 40: Four Decades of Supporting Contemporary Art, Michener Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
In This Moment: The Book as Witness, Environmental Design Library, UC Berkeley, CA
Holding Ground, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC
In Focus: Faces and Places, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Bainbridge Island, WA

2023
Lucky 13, Paradigm Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Back to Front: Artists' Books by Women, Maier Museum of Art, Lynchburg, VA
In Feast or Famine, Palo Alto Arts Center, CA

2022
The MCBA Prize Exhibition, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis MN
RETOLD, Penland Art Gallery, Penland, NC
Lunar: A New Year, Mainline Art Center, Philadelphia
Adaptation: Artist’s Books and Prints for a Changing Environment, UCLA, Berkeley, CA
Boundless, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, WA

2021
Summer Reading, Center for Book Arts, NYC
Artist Book Collection Bainbridge Island Museum of Art
Highlights from the Eberly Family Special Collections Library at Penn State
Penn State

2020
Tracing Origins, Rowan University Art Gallery, Glassboro, NJ
Containing the Muse: Artist Books as Expression and Form, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA
The Illustrated Accordion, Kalamazoo Book Arts Center

2019
Paper, Paradigm Gallery+ Studio, Philadelphia, PA
Spirit of Being, Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY
Politics of Place, Center for Book Arts, NYC

2018
Overlapping Circles, Green Olive Arts, Tétouan, Morocco (3 person)
Asian Heritage Month Exhibition, City Hall, Philadelphia, PA
Summer Reading, Woskob Family Gallery, Penn State, State College, PA

2017
Under the Knife, Hicks Art Gallery, Bucks County Community College Newton, PA
Third Space /Shifting Conversations about Contemporary Art, Birmingham Museum of Art
Structure Unbound: Interdisciplinary Book Art, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
Building Books: Therese A. Maloney Art Gallery, Morristown, NJ
Loving Blackness, Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia, PA
A Message to our Daughters, Philadelphia City Hall

2016
I found god in myself: the 40th anniversary of Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls, African American Museum in Philadelphia
Shakerag Faculty Exhibit, St. Andrews Sewanee School, Sewanee, TN

2015
The Way they See it, Crawford Campus Center Gallery, the Episcopal Academy, Newtown Square, PA
Mobilia Gallery, THE NEW TEXTILES: TRANSFORMED, Cambridge, MA
Blood Quantum, 23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, OR
New York Center for Book Arts, Embraced: The International Community, NYC
Hudson D. Walker Gallery, FAWC Faculty Show, Provincetown, MA
Inaugural Exhibit of the Pennsylvania Arts, State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA

2014
Shanghai International Pop-up Book Fair, Shanghai, China
Yinchuan international Pop-up Book Fair, Ningxia, China
Diamond Leaves, Printing in Progress, Museum of Printing History, Houston, TX
Asian Arts Initiative, 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA
Fulbright Alumni Photography Exhibition, Ronald Reagen Building, Washington DC
Faces and Traces, Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai, China

2013
Free Library of Philadelphia, Bibliophiladelphia, Philadelphia, PA
BRIC Arts Rotunda Gallery, En Foco: New Works, Crossing Boundaries, Brooklyn, NY
Muhlenburg College, "Paper Architecture," Allentown, PA

2012
Visual Artists Network Residency Exhibition, Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia, PA
West Collects, City Hall Philadelphia, PA
Pulp to Pixels: Artists Books in the Digital Age, Hampshire College Art Gallery, Amherst, MA
Weird World, Booklyn Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Mainline Art Center Faculty Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA
Perkins Center for the Arts, Artists and Books, Collingswood, NJ
China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Diamond Leaves, curated by Marshall Weber and Xu Bing, Beijing, China
Esther Klein Gallery, Without Walls, Works from Mural Lab/Breadboard Residency, Philadelphia, PA
Millersville University, Sykes Gallery, Found in Translation, Millersville, PA

2011
Center for Book Arts, The Photograph Unframed, NYC
NewCourtland Education Center, "Art is Ageless," Philadelphia, PA

2010
Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, The Book: A Contemporary View, Wilmington, DE
23 Sandy Gallery, Pop Up Now and Handmade Paper in Motion, Portland, OR
Barbara Walters Gallery at Sarah Lawrence College, I will cut thrU: Pochoirs, Carvings, and Other Cuttings, Bronxville, NY
Center for Book Arts, I will cut thrU: Pochoirs, Carvings, and Other Cuttings, NYC
University of the Arts, Between the Covers, Philadelphia, PA
The Gallery at City Hall Inaugural Exhibit, On the Rise, Philadelphia, PA
City Hall, Currency, Philadelphia, PA
Da Gallery, Open Kitchen, NYC
The Icebox, Medium Resistance, Philadelphia, PA
Mainline Art Center, In-Depth: Printmaking and Photography, Philadelphia
Taubman Museum, We are Tiger-Dragon People, Roanoke, VA

2009
City Hall, In Your Dreams, Philadelphia, PA

2008
Sovereign Asian Art Prize, 30 Finalists Exhibition, Landmark Atrium, Hong Kong

2007
Atlantic City Art Center, Now Ap-piering, Best in Show, Atlantic City, NJ
Fleisher Art Memorial, Challenge Award Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA

2006
Provincetown Art Museum, Visual Fellows Group Show, Provincetown, MA

2005
Highwire Gallery/Philadelphia City Hall, A Case for Art, Philadelphia, PA
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Making it Big, Omaha, NE

2004
Woman Made Gallery, 8th International Open, Chicago, IL
Beecher Center for Art and Technology, Butler Institute of Art, Youngstown, Ohio
Skylight Gallery, En Foco New Works Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY
University of Medicine & Dentistry, Painting with Pixels, Piscataway, NJ
Museum of Computer Art at Cork Gallery, Painting with Pixels, Lincoln Center, NYC

2003
TIXE Gallery, NYC

AWARDS

Forman Arts Initiative Artworks Grant 2024
Philadelphia Cultural Treasures Grant 2023
Center for Book Arts Faculty Fellowship, 2021
Comcast RISE 2021
Puffin Foundation Artist Grant 2021, 2015, 2010, 2003
Joan Mitchell Painters & Sculptors Grant 2020
Red Bull Arts Microgrant 2020
Minnesota Center for the Book Arts Prize Semi-Finalist 2020
Meggendorfer Artist Book Prize 2018
Leeway Foundation Window of Opportunity Grant 2018
Independence Foundation Artist Fellowship 2018/2010
Brandywine Workshop and Archives, Professional Development Grant 2018
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Project Stream Fund 2017, 2009
Center for Emerging Visual Artists, Visual Arts Fellowship 2015
Leeway Transformation Award 2014
Vermont Studio Center Full Fellowship 2013
West Collects 2012
Canadian Council for the Arts Visiting Foreign Artist Grant 2012
NewCourtland Community Artist Fellowship 2010
Smack Mellon Hot Picks 2010
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Project Stream Fund 2009
Sovereign Foundation Asian Art Prize, Finalist 2008
Fulbright Scholarship to China 2008
Virginia Commission for the Arts, Artist Fellowship 2007
Beyond the Great Wall, Most Intriguing People Prize, Rose Group 2005
Santa Fe Prize for Photography Nominee 2005
Women in Photography, Honorable Mention 2004
Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, Artist's Grant 2004
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship 2004
Beecher Center Annual Digital Art Competition, Honorable Mention 2004
New York Foundation for the Arts, Special Opportunity Stipend 2004
En Foco "New Works," Emerging Photographer's Award 2004
Nikon.net "Publish Your Passion," Grand Prize Winner in Portraiture 2003
Society for Photographic Education Achievement Scholarship 2002
Outstanding Student Achievement Award, Virginia Commonwealth University 1999
Virginia Western Community College Grant for China education exchange1998

EDUCATION

2003 Rochester Institute of Technology, MFA, Fine Art Photography
1999 Virginia Commonwealth University, BS, Photographic Studies
1995 Yunnan Nationalities University, Certificate, Chinese Language and Minority Studies,
1992 University of Virginia, BA, French Language and Literature,

PUBLIC ART

Kinfolk Augmented Reality Monuments Project
Free Library's Parkway Central Branch Percent for Art Commission, 2017-19
Francis House of Peace, Affordable Housing Site with Meg Saligman Studios, Chinatown Development Corporation and Project Home, 2014-16
Metro Art, Los Angeles Transportation Systems, Photo Lightboxes Public Art Project 2006

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts
Asian Arts Initiative
Athenaeum Music and Arts Library
Bainbridge Island Museum of Art
Baylor University
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts
Birmingham Museum of Art
Bowdoin College
Bucknell College
Carelton College
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts
Emory University
Florida State University
Franklin and Marshall College
Frans Masereel Centrum
George Washington University
Getty Research Institute
Harvard University
Indiana University
Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts
Lafayette College
Library of Congress
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Middlebury College
National Museum of Women in the Arts
New England Biolabs
Occidental College
Peabody Essex Museum Library
Penn State College
Philadelphia Athenaeum
Phillips Museum of Art
Phoenix Public Library
Quimper Library
Rhode Island School of Design
Rochester Institute of Technology
Sacatar Foundation
Scripps College
Smith College
Smithsonian Libraries
Sovereign Art Foundation
Swarthmore College
Swatch Art
Taubman Museum of Art
Temple University
Tufts University
UCLA, Berkley
University of California, San Diego
University of Colorado
University of Central Florida
University of Connecticut
University of Miami
University of Michigan
University of Missouri
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
University of Toronto
University of Victoria
Virginia Commonwealth University
Virginia Commonwealth University, Qatar
Visual Studies Workshop
Western Michigan University
Women’s Studio Workshop
Walker Art Museum
West Collection
William and Mary
Yale University Art Gallery

RESIDENCIES

Leeway x NextFab Art + Technology Residency, Philadelphia, PA
Bainbridge Island Museum of Art
Brandywine Workshop and Archives 2022/23
Women’s Studio Workshop 2022
Yaddo 2018
Green Olive Arts Center, Tétouan, Morocco 2018
Avenues: The World School, NYC 2017
Macdowell, Kate and George Kendall Fellow 2017
Vicenza Middle School 2016
RECSIM, Jashipur, India 2015
Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai, China 2014
Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts 2013
The Institute for Electronic Arts at Alfred University 2013
Towson University 2013
Vermont Studio Center 2013
Asian Arts Initiative Social Practice Lab 2012/13
Einstein Academy 2012
Frans Masereel Centre, Kasterlee, Belgium 2012
Mural Lab, Nextfab and Breadboard Technology and Art 2011/12
Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts 2011
Mural Arts Porchlight Initiative, 2011
Center for Emerging Visual Artists, Intergenerational Residency, 2010
Sacatar Foundation, Itaparica, Brazil 2007
Robert M. MacNamara Foundation 2006
Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center 2005
Kimmel Harding Arts Center 2004
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts 2004
Visual Studies Workshop 2004
The Millay Colony, Robert W. Simpson Fellow 2004
Alden B. Dow Center for Creativity 2003

VISITING ARTIST/LECTURER/PRESENTER

A2Manos, Guadalajara, Mexico
Adelphi University, Garden City, NY
Alfred University, Alfred, NY
Atelier Graff, Montréal, CA
Avenues: the World School, NYC
Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
College of Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ
Concordia University, Montréal, CA
Corcoran School of the Arts and Design/George Washington University, Washington DC
ConVal Regional High School, Peterborough, NH
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
Georgetown University, Washington DC
Film Forum Zadar, Zadar, Croatia
Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
Hussian School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Ikebana Society, Philadelphia, PA
Lane Community College, Eugene, OR
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library, NYC
Movable Book Society, Portland, OR, and Philadelphia, PA
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC
Penn State, State College, PA
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Philadelphia Free Library
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia Photo Arts Center
Philly Art Center
Pratt Institute, NYC
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Sidwell Friend's School, Washington DC
Swarthmore Elementary, Swarthmore, PA
Taubman Museum, Roanoke, VA
Towson University, Towson, MD
Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
University of Akron, Akron, OH
University of Michigan School of Art and Design, Ann Arbor, MI
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Vermont Studio Center

CLIENTS

Bearded Ladies Cabaret
Canon Asia
Chabaa Thai Bistro
Community High School of Arts and Academics
Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts
Dennis Lane Photography
Disaster Research Center
Duck Studios for Children's Medical Center of Texas
Ellen Weldon Design
Greenpeace
Long Dock Beacon
LVMH- Moët Hennessy-Louis Vuitton
M ss ng Pieces for General Electric
Swatch Art
Urban Botanical
Vogue China

WORKSHOPS

3rd Ward, Brooklyn, NY
A2Manos, Guadelajara, Mexico
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
Art New England/MassArt, Bennington, Vermont
Arty Projects Studio, Santa Fe, NM
Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia
Atelier Graff, Montreal, Quebec
Athenaeum of Philadelphia
Atlantic City Public Library, NJ
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Center for Book Arts, NYC
CFEVA, Philadelphia
Cheltenham Nursing Home, Philadelphia
Chinatown Learning Center, Philadelphia
College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ
College of Physicians, Philadelphia
Colorbox Arts Center, Shanghai
ConVal Regional High School, Peterborough, NH
Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE
Delaware Institute for Arts in Education, Wilmington, DE
Department of Making and Doing, Philadelphia
Fairmount Arts Center, Philadelphia
Film Forum Zadar, Zadar, Croatia
Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia
Free Library of Philadelphia
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
Getty Research Institute, CA
Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, ME
Ikebana International, Philadelphia
Jaffe Center for Book Arts, Boca Raton, FL
Lane Community College, Eugene, OR
Leeway Foundation, Philadelphia
Mainline Art Center, Haverford, PA
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Mills College, Oakland, CA
Misericordia University, Dallas, PA
Movable Book Society, Kansas City, MO
Mural Arts Program, Philadelphia
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC
On Lok Senior Center, Philadelphia
Oxbow School of Art, Saugatuck, MI
Penland School of Craft, Penland, NC
Penn State, State College, PA
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Philadelphia Center for the Book
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia Photo Arts Center
Phillips Museum at Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA
Philly Art Center
Pratt University, NY
Project Home, Philadelphia
Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, MA
Puget Sound Book Artists, Tacoma, WA
Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Silver Springs, MD
Rhode Island School of Design, RI
SEI Investments, Oaks, PA
Shakerag Workshops, Sewanee, TN
Shanghai Literary Festival
Sidwell Friends School, Washington DC
Snowfarm, Williamsburg, MA
Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA
Stockton Rush Bartol Foundation, Philadelphia
Sunday Rescue Breakfast Mission, Philadelphia
Taubman Museum, Roanoke, VA
Towson University, MD
UCLA, CA
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Village of Arts and Humanities, Philadelphia
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY