he/she/they
b. 1989/1828/1839/2698 B.C., Los. Angeles
2021 - Present Co-Founder of Liverpool East & South East Asian Network, Liverpool, U.K.
2016 - Present Independent Producer and Workshop Leader, Glasgow <—> Liverpool, U.K
2021 - 2023 Guest Curator at the Bluecoat, Liverpool, U.K.
2018 - 2020 Co-Director at Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, U.K.
2016 MLitt in Fine Art Practice (Sculpture), The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, U.K.
2013 BA (Hons) in Fine Art Sculpture, University of Brighton, Brighton, U.K.
PERFORMANCE, PODCAST, TALKS & CONFERENCE
2024
Wah Yen, by Wei Zhang, Glasgow International Festival 2024, 5 Florence Street, Glasgow, U.K.
2023
QueenswaY x Haus Of Chan: Kinky Queer Icons, Q U A RR Y, Liverpool, U.K
Welcoming the year of Dragon, auntie k & mui mui Em from Liverpool East & South East Asian Network, HàNội Community Radio, HàNội , Vietnam
Melodic Distraction Take-Over w/ auntie k & mui mui Em, HàNội Community Radio, HàNội , Vietnam
Table talk at Sheba Art Festival: Decolonising Cultural Institutions, Manchester, U.K.
Realness of Haus of Chan, Liverpool Vogue Ball 2023, Liverpool, U.K.
Zoom Q&A for breathe, spirit and life 呼吸、靈魂與生命, The Bluecoat, Liverpool, U.K.
2022
Morning Radio Show with Liverpool ESEA Network, Melodic Distraction UK, Liverpool, U.K.
Sex Siren of Haus of Chan, Liverpool Vogue Ball 2022, Liverpool, U.K.
Guest Lecturer, BAFA (Ceramics), Hong Kong Art School, Hong Kong
Roundtable event with Khanyisile Mbongwa, Curator of 2023 Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, U.K.
26 May: awkward silence, stand-up comedy, The Bluecoat, U.K.
2019
Reorganising cultural organisations, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, U.K.
In Conversation with Jasmine Brown-Rosé, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, U.K.
Catalyst 25 Year Symposium, Catalyst Arts, Belfast, U.K.
SOLO EXHIBITION
2023
Satellites Programme Solo Commission: neither the West nor the East can be a determinate location, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, U.K.
CURATED EXHIBITIONS
2021-2023
Curatorial Commission: breathe, spirit and life 呼吸、靈魂與生命 featuring Soojin Chang, Sulaïman Majali, Thulani Rachia, Roo Dhissou, Kiara Mohamed Amin and Emii Alrai, The Bluecoat, Liverpool, U.K.
2021
Across the City Program Curatorial Commission: These stories (Sekai Machache: The Divine Sky & Thulani Rachia: ...Wathint’ Imbokodo), Heritage Centre at House for An Art Lover, Glasgow International Festival 2021, Glasgow, U.K.
2019
HEAVY DUTY: Annual Members’ Show 2019 Edition, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, U.K.
RE: Respite, Ain Bailey, Alicia Mersy, Lydia Ourahmane, La Nietas De Nonó & Jasmine Brown-Rasé, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, U.K.
With loving resistance, Yon Afro Collective, Ubuntu Women’s Shelter, RCS People of Colour Collective, GSA People of Colour Collection, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, U.K.
2018
Untouchable Gypsy Witch, Delaine Le Bas, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, U.K.
COCO!NUTS!, Rabiya Choudhry, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, U.K.
Plenary, iQhiya, Glasgow International 2018, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, U.K.
2017
as if we were strangers; that strangeness was ours, Intermedia Gallery, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, U.K.
Ignore The Radiators, Glasgow Open House Festival, Venue #67, Glasgow, U.K.
If It’s True, Tell It To Me (Pop up one day exhibition & workshop), House for an Art Lover, Glasgow, U.K.
WORKSHOPS & READING GROUPS
2023
Red Envelope Treasure Hunt Workshop with Dan Chan, FACT, Liverpool, U.K.
Eurovision 2023, *dumplingvision*: a dumpling making workshop, Liverpool, U.K.
2022
Reading Group: for generation(s) that are yet to be born, The Bluecoat, Liverpool, U.K.
2020
auntie k: photo-psychic-reading session, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, U.K.
2019
Chinese Calligraphy workshop, Wellbeing Festival, Teesside University, Middleburgh, U.K.
Reading Group: for daughter(s) that are yet to be born, Ricefield Library, Glasgow, U.K.
2016
Untitled: Titling Workshop for 2nd Year students in Sculpture & Environment Art, The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, U.K.
PUBLICATION & PRESS
2023 Absolute Truth? Interview by Harvey Dimond, The Skinny February 2023 Issue, Glasgow, U.K.
Manchester School of Art / Bunker Talks - Talk #115 Emii Alrai (26 January 2023)
2022 Corridor8, 14.12.2022 — Review by Katie Shirley
The Year in Review: Frieze Editors on Art in 2022 By Marko Gluhaich, Vanessa Peterson And Terence Trouillot In Opinion , Roundtables | 15 Dec 22
2020 In Conversation with Sekai, The List February 2020 Issue, Glasgow, U.K.
2018 Transmission Gallery: The Phone is the Keyhole; The Penpot, The Heart
2017 Skin Deep: The Spectacle
RESIDENCY
2022
Self-directed Residency at Harvest Pottery, Hong Kong
Visual Art Residency 2021, Cove Park, Helensburgh, U.K.
2020
Creative Lab Residency Program 2020/21, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, U.K.
AWARDS
2022 Foyle Foundation
2021 John Ellerman Foundation
2020 Hope Scott Trust
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020
Vibration lets me know you are there, emotional justice: Air Vibrating with Friendship and Laughter, Online Radio Series, Market Gallery, Glasgow, U.K.
2019
Another Country, Alice. R Rogers Gallery & Target Gallery, St John's Art Centre, Minnesota, U.S. + Edinburgh City Art Centre, Edinburgh, U.K. + Inverness Museum and Art Gallery, Inverness, U.K.
2018
Wish Fulfilment, Sine Projects, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
In Residence, 16 Nicholson Street Gallery & Art Collective, Glasgow, U.K.
Radio Space, Borealis - en festival for eksperimentell musikk, Bergan, Norway
2017
Fields of Wheat, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, U.K.
as if we were strangers; that strangeness was ours, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, U.K.
If it's true, tell it to me., House for An Art Lover, Glasgow, U.K.
Ignore the Radiator, Glasgow Open House Art Festival, Glasgow, U.K.