Education
2022 M.F.A. Social Practice Art, Corcoran School of Arts and Design, Washington, D.C.
Selected Exhibitions and Performances
2025 EMERGE, Bond Millen Gallery, Richmond, VA
2025 what is something you always wished I had asked and knew about you?
“An Appeal to Reason,” Goethe Institut Washington x Thomas Mann House LA, Washington, D.C.
2025 BLOOM, National Landing x Amazon with USAN USAN x MoCa Arlington, National Landing, VA
2025 Collector’s Night, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C.
2024 We Should Talk: CUT FRUIT/과일깍자! at the National Museum of Asian Art
Smithsonian Women’s History Initiative+Asia Pacific American Center, Washington, D.C.
2024 Asia North 2024: Love Letters to Baltimore+the DMV,
Towson University’s Asian Arts & Culture Center x Central Baltimore Partnership, Baltimore, MD
2024 Transcendence, Transformer Gallery, Katzen Arts Center at American University Washington, D.C.
2024 For the Ground We Walk On: an earthly arts salon, Rhizome, Washington, D.C.
2023 The Invincible Visible, Transformer Gallery, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
2023 RE/ENVISIONING, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Washington, D.C.
2023 Hickok Cole Art Night, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C.
2023 Collector’s Night, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C.
2022 your presence is the best art, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C.
2022 to carry within us an orchard, Transformer Gallery, Washington, D.C.
2022 Lacuna Blossoms, Gallery 102 at George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
2022 TREEHOUSE, Brentwood Arts Exchange, Brentwood, Maryland
2022 what is something you always wished I had asked and knew about you?
NEXT 2022, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
2022 Interconnected, Korean Community Services, Queens, New York
2021 Floralscapes, The Fearless Artist, Art Basel Miami, Miami, FL
Community Engaged Art Projects
The Duration Performance of Cut Fruit
Workshop series that invites participates to create clay fruit and embed them with memories integrating voice messages and NFC tag technology
2025 MoCa Arlington Innovation Studio and Store Private Workshop, National Landing, VA
2025 KID Museum, Bethesda, MD
2025 Amazon HQ2 Creative Expressions Lab, National Landing, VA
2025 MoCa Arlington Innovation Studio and Store Residency Public Workshop, National Landing, VA
Floralscapes
Public art installation that engages community, grassroots organizing through flowers
2024 Museum Square Blooms, Chinatown, Washington, D.C.
2023 Right to Roots, Ivy City 150th Celebration, Washington, D.C.
2021 Let Ivy City Bloom, Washington, D.C.
CUT FRUIT
Immersive public art and performance series fostering dialogue on identity, culture, and belonging
2024 For the Ground We Walk On: an earthly arts salon, Rhizome, Washington, D.C.
2023 Community Day, RE/ENVISIONING, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Washington D.C.
2022 Transformer Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Flowerhands: Bongseonhwa Natural Nail Dye Workshop
Workshop series that invite participants to engage in cultural ritual practiced by generations of Korean women reimagined as community building in the disapora
2024 KID Museum, Bethesda, MD
2024 Asia North 2024: Love Letters to Baltimore+the DMV, Baltimore, MD
2022 The Nicholson Project, Washington, D.C.
2022 Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
2022 George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
Selected Talks & Panels
2025 Panel for Action Reconciliation Service for Peace (ARSP) Volunteers, Goethe Institut Washington
2025 Artist Talk, MoCa Arlington x Amazon HQ2 Residency
2024 AAPI Artist Panel, IlluminAsia: Arts and Culture Festival, National Museum of Asian Art
2024 Action Through Art, Journeys Podcast Season Four, KAMA DC
2022 Artist Talk, Radical Self Care course, Corcoran School of Arts and Design
2022 Artist Talk, Becoming Asian American: Migration, Melancholia, and Memory course, George Washington Uni.
2021 BIPOC Artist Talk, The Fearless Artist Young Curators Program
Fellowships / Residencies
2025-26 Professional Visual Arts Fellowship, New and Emerging Media, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
2025 Post Graduate Residency, Torpedo Factory Arts Center, Alexandria, VA
2025 Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington x Amazon HQ2 Innovation Studio, National Landing, VA
2022 E19: Artistic Interventions, Exercises for Emerging Artists, Transformer Gallery, Washington, D.C.
2022 Artist-Organizer Residency, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C.
2021 Community Organizers Fellowship, Rising Organizers, Washington, D.C.
2021 BIPOC Visual storyteller, WomenPhotograph
Awards & Honors
Wherewithal Research Grant, Washington Project for the Arts x Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, 2025
Outstanding MFA Award in Social Practice Art, Corcoran School of Arts and Design, 2022
Edna Wattis Dumke Memorial Scholarship Endowment, Corcoran School of Arts and Design, 2020-2022
Hortense Mae Boutell Scholarship, Corcoran School of Arts and Design, 2020-2022
White House Community Partners Action Summit, U.S. Dept of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, D.C., 2015
Recipient of Resolution from Baltimore City Council for production of Ruined, Everyman Theatre, Baltimore, MD, 2015
Press/Bibliography
Smithsonian Welcomes the Start of Summer With “Solstice Saturday.” Smithsonian. June 13, 2024.
Hahn, Fritz and Solano, Sophia. “The 32 best things to do in D.C. this weekend and next week.” Washington Post. May 3, 2024.
Benjamin, Kayla, “Northeast Neighborhood Ivy City Celebrates 150th Anniversary.” Washington Informer. October 25, 2023.
Niuman, Olivia, “East City Art Reviews – RE/ENVISIONING.” Eastcityart.com. August 1, 2023.
Mengüç, Murat Cem, “10 Art Shows to See in Washington, DC, This Summer.” Hyperalleric.com. July 13, 2023.
Mahoney, Katherine, “Reflect on Your Story at the RE/ENVISIONING Exhibition.” District Fray Magazine, July 6, 2023.
Bechky, Aviva, “Your Guide to AAPI Month in D.C.” District Fray Magazine, May 1, 2023.
Bechky, Aviva, “Cut Fruit Means I Love You in Adele Kenworthy’s New Exhibit.” District Fray Magazine, August 11, 2022.
Steinhardt, Ruth, “Student Art Shines at NEXT 2022.” GW Today, May 2, 2022.
Jenkins, Mark, “In the galleries: Artistic portals leading to and encouraging wonder.” Washington Post, June 17, 2022.
Westcott, Emma, “Flowers As the Medium for Protest and Change.” Corcoran School of Arts & Design, August 3, 2021.
“Community Renovation Project Attempts to Restore Ivy City.” NBCWashington. May 16, 2021.
Professional Associations
2022-2024 Board Member, Secretary, Fiber With A Cause, Washington, D.C.
2022-2024 Contractor, Monument Lab, Philadelphia, PA