Biography

Grace Jin was born in Ohio and raised by her grandparents in Yueqing, a fishing town in southeastern China bordered by the Yandang mountains and Pacific Ocean. She comes from four generations of physicians and village healers, a lineage she carries today as an artist and medical student living on unceded Ohlone land.

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Grace’s practice in art, just as in medicine, is a ritual quest for healing—using painting, calligraphy, bookmaking, installation and performance. Her work weaves personal and collective histories of migration, blood and chosen kinships, decolonial theory and ancestral spirituality to create matrilineal heirlooms for restorative futures.

Grace received a B.A. from Yale College. She is pursuing a MFA from California College of the Arts and studying at Stanford School of Medicine. Her work has been exhibited at galleries and institutions in San Francisco, Oakland, Albany, Stanford, and New Haven.​​​​​​