My Art Portfolio
Public Art & Sci Exhibitions
Art was one of the first "languages" I learned as a kid to understand the world around me.
As a first-generation, low-income student from a Vietnamese American immigrant family, my parents were often passing along their fears about the surrounding culture, which was completely new to us. I was often stuck at home experimenting with things, drawing animals and landscapes I saw in borrowed books, and tapping into both my boredom and creativity. In college when I was struggling to keep up in my 600-person college lecture courses, I started designing and build interactive sculptures to help myself and others engage with difficult concepts and unlock unconventional ways of learning.
Press about the at the National Arts & Humanities Month Celebration which I helped lead and organize
Front page photo featuring my crowdsourced art project at the National Arts & Humanities Month Celebration
Outdoor Tree Gallery which I curated at the National Arts & Humanities Month Celebration
Public painting activity at the National Arts & Humanities Month Celebration
Dance troupe performing at the National Arts & Humanities Month Celebration
Student band performing at the National Arts & Humanities Month Celebration
2019
2019 Helped Dr. Chanelle Case-Borden at NCI with a hands-on engineering and problem-solving workshop to challenging NIH scientists and high school students to create “surgical” tools to dissect cancerous and healthy cells exhibited at the National Library of Medicine
2019 Interactive exhibit focusing on engaging participants with multisensory science through tasting experiments at N.Y.C. Photoville in collaboration via a multi-day workshop hosted by the New York Academy of Sciences and Guerilla Science Organization
2019 Interactive exhibit at D.C. CivicFest challenging participants to solve science trivia by drawing it out and engaging the public on principles of creativity in innovation and science
2018
2018 We formed a multidisciplinary team at Virginia Teach and got a Science, Engineering, Arts, and Design (SEAD) grant to create a Virtual Reality (VR) showcase where participants can step into a simulation of D.C. after a bomb detonation and explore decision-making strategies for disaster response planning
2017
2017 Interactive 8’x8’ art piece where 1200+ TEDxUF participants connect thousands of numbered dots to collectively create an alligator swimming and sign their names to claim their role in the creation of the piece
2016
2016 Interactive 7’x8’ wooden data visualization survey called “What Makes You..?” where participants connect keyword nodes they identify with to answer a series of subtly piercing questions, inspired by artists Dorota Grabkowska and Kuba Kolec
2016 Sculpture exploring the concept of saltwater intrusion into the Florida aquifer system exhibited at the University of Florida Fine Arts College GaryStudio; created in collaborative scientist–artist teams through the Lab Experiments in Art + Science Program
2015
2015 Curated an outdoor tree gallery of collected artwork created by students at the National Arts and Humanities Month Pop-Up Culture Celebration Event
2015 Interactive 6'x8' wooden canvas where participants recreate the Mona Lisa out of 14,000 rubber bands over 2 weeks with 1 line of instructions in order to cultivate sense of collective ownership of the art piece as well as community with fellow strangers at the National Arts and Humanities Month Pop-Up Culture Celebration Event
2015 Interactive 6'x8' art piece where participants fill in the DNA Gator with 'A, T, C, G' in collaboration with the Genetics Institute at the UF DNA Annual Celebration Event
2014 - 2016
2014 – 2016 Massive whiteboard recreations of famous paintings using expo markers and science course notes (Biology, Organic Chemistry, and Physics) in UF campus libraries to inspire students up late studying as well as in the Creativity in the UF Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Science for Life Event, the Math, Art & Sciences (MASH) Event, and the Bishop Study Center at the Samuel P. Harn Museum
Starry, Starry Night recreated by writing biology lecture notes on a whiteboard during one late night studying in the library for an exam
Van Gogh's Self-Portrait recreated using chemistry lecture notes and displayed at the Harn Museum Math, Art & Sciences Event
The Scream painting recreated using physics lecture notes and displayed at the Harn Museum Math, Art & Sciences Event
2013
2013 Several 3-D paintings exhibited at the International Baccalaureate Exhibition hosted by Bethune Cookman University
