SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
HELD. Co-solo show with collaborator Anna Camilleri. Tangled Art + Disability, Toronto. Interdisciplinary + Mosaic.
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2022
Mycelium: Interdependence in the Undergrowth. CoMotion Festival. Harbourfront Centre, Toronto. Mosaic.
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2021
This Is A Tiger. DesignTO Festival. Scout Ltd, Toronto. Mosaic.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS, PERFORMANCES & COMMISSIONS
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2025
RAW Taiko in Concert. Yukon Arts Centre, Whitehorse. Taiko Concert.
Lineage: a tender sound (San Jose Taiko, Ame no Ato & RAW Taiko). Betty Oliphant Theatre, Toronto.
"Wishlist". RAW Taiko. Commissioned Taiko Composition.
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2024
"Kumi". RAW Taiko. Commissioned Taiko Composition.
The Good Mourning Festival. Evergreen Brickworks, Toronto. Taiko.
Bang On! Toronto Taiko Festival. Factory Theatre, Toronto. Taiko Concert.
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2023
h o m e. RAW Taiko. Betty Oliphant Theatre, Toronto. Taiko Concert.
Unchanging & changing & changing. Collaboration with Alexa Kumiko Hatanaka, Jody Chan, Katherine Yamashita & Danielle Yamashita. Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, North York. Taiko composition & performance.
UNDAUNTED: Into The Open. RAW Taiko. Oberlin College. Taiko Concert.
"Sun Sun Sun". RAW Taiko. Commissioned Taiko Composition.
Canada Council Art Bank - 50th Anniversary Purchase Program. Mycelium: Interdependence in the Undergrowth. Mosaic.
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2022
Bang On! Toronto Taiko Festival. MacMillan Theatre, Toronto. Taiko Concert.
"Swell". RAW Taiko. Commissioned Taiko Composition (Jody Chan & Wy Joung Kou)
"Interdependent Magic" edited by Jessica Watkins. Playwrights Canada Press. Publication Cover Art / Mosaic.
Trace. Theatre Passe Muraille & ReDefine Arts. TPM Mainspace, Toronto. Chorister.​
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2021
Guided By Starlight. Luminato Festival. Online. Taiko.
Beyond Toronto Taiko Festival. Dream in High Park. High Park Amphitheater, Toronto. Taiko.
ABOLISH. The Transformations Project, Nightwood Theatre. Online (NAC website). Video & Taiko.
The Mermaid Project. Caminos Festival. The Factory Theatre, Toronto. Interdisciplinary Performance, Taiko and Installation.
May I Take Your Arm. Theatre Passe Muraille, ReDefine Arts & Common Boots Theatre. Online. Presentation Website.
2020
All That We Hold. North York Women’s Shelter. Toronto. Mosaic Commission.
2019
Where The Shoreline Meets The Water: The ILGBT Artist Retrospective Exhibition. The ArQuives, Toronto. Mosaic.
Access is Love and Love is Complicated. Critical Distance Gallery, Toronto. Mosaic.
UNDAUNTED: Into The Open. Raging Asian Womxn Taiko Drummers. Betty Oliphant Theatre, Toronto. Taiko Concert.
Inkling Symposium. Red Dress Productions. Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse, Toronto. Poetry Reading.
Unruly Bodies ii. With/out Pretend. The Tranzac, Toronto. Poetry Reading.
2018
TSG: Say My Name. Gladstone Hotel, Toronto. Mosaic.
2017
CRIP INTERIORS: MIXER. Project Creative Users. Tangled Art + Disability Gallery, Toronto. Installation.
Mixed Feelings. Alliedoscope Collective. Tangled Art + Disability Vitrines, Toronto. Mosaic/Mixed Media.
2016
Who We Are. Storywave Collective. Tangled Art + Disability Gallery, Toronto. Mixed Media.
2015
CRIP INTERIORS. Project Creative Users. Artscape Youngplace, Toronto. Installation.
AWARDS & GRANTS
2023
DORA Nomination – Outstanding Ensemble. The Epic Choir of Traceland. Chorister.
Craft Arts Creation Grant, Ontario Arts Council.
Visual Arts Creation Grant, Toronto Arts Council.
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2022
Career Catalyst: Project Grant for New Generation Artists, Ontario Arts Council.
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2021
Skills and Career Development Grant, Ontario Arts Council.
Exhibition Assistance Grant, Ontario Arts Council.
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2020
Arts Abroad Grant, Canada Council for the Arts.
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2019
Visual Arts Creation Grant, Toronto Arts Council.
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2018
JRG Award for Artists with Disabilities, The Amy Project & The JRG Society for the Arts
Deaf & Disability Arts: Explore & Create Grant, Canada Council for the Arts.
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SELECTED COMMUNITY ARTS
2015 - 2023 with ReDefine Arts
The Countdown Public Art Project. Associate Artist. Renfrew County, ON. Pebble Mosaic (2020 - 2023)
Street Health Growth Mosaic Project. Lead Designer/Artist. Street Health, Toronto. Mosaic. (2018)
Drift Seeds. Assistant Artistic Director. St-Jamestown and Winchester Park, Toronto. Theatre. (2017)
Where There is Smoke. Associate Artist. Toronto & Hamilton. Digital Audio & Video. (2018)
Bell Manor Park Pebble Mosaic Project. Associate Artist. Bell Manor Park, Etobicoke. (2017)
Make: 25 Years Proud Community Arts Mosaic Project. Associate Artist. PASAN, Toronto. (2016)
Promise In The Park. Interning Artist. St-Jamestown and Cabbagetown, Toronto. Mosaic. (2015 - 2016)​
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2018 – 2019
Sick & Disabled Queer Zine Fair. Bricks & Glitter Festival. Toronto. Project Founder & Organizer
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SELECTED GROUP FILM SCREENINGS
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2023
Disrupt. AMI-tv, Episode 3. Television Broadcast.
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2022
Queer Futurisms. Toronto Queer Film Festival. Online.
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2020
Cinekink NYC. Cinekink. Virtual.
Qaleidoscope Queer Film On Tour. Queer City Cinema. Ottawa, Montreal, Sackville, St. Johns, Winnipeg.
2019
Qaleidoscope Queer Film On Tour. Queer City Cinema. Victoria, Yellowknife, Edmonton, Saskatoon, Thunder Bay.
2018
Decolonizing Sexualities. Toronto Queer Film Festival. Toronto.
Smut Theater. Rhinestone Steel Queer Art Festival. Pittsburgh.
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SELECTED PANELS, FACILITATION & CURATION
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2025
Odaiko Fundamentals. 8-Week Taiko Course. RAW Taiko. Instructor.
Taiko Toddlers. 4-Week Taiko Program. RAW Taiko. Instructor.
Naname Fundamentals. 8-Week Taiko Course. RAW Taiko. Instructor.
"Omiyage" Intensive. 2-Day Taiko Workshop. RAW Taiko. Instructor.
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2024
Toronto Taiko Festival. Produced by RAW Taiko. Factory Theatre. Festival Co-Director.
Beta Together: "KUMI". Workshop. Toronto Taiko Festival. Instructor.
Harbord Collegiate Institute Taiko Club. Instructor.
Yatai Bayashi. 5-Week Taiko Course. RAW Taiko. Instructor.
Miyake Intensive. 2-Day Taiko Intensive. RAW Taiko. Instructor.
Miyake Monthly Drop-in. Recurring Taiko Program. RAW Taiko. Instructor. (ongoing)
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2023
Special Advisory Committee. Mural Routes. Online. Committee Member.
2021-2023 RAW Apprenticeship Program. RAW Taiko. Co-Instructor.
Odaiko Fundamentals. 6-Week Course. RAW Taiko. Instructor.
HELD: Writing Disability Futures. Tangled Arts & Disability. Online Workshop. Co-Facilitator (Anna Camilleri & Wy Joung Kou)
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2022
Mentor In Residence x Accessible Futures. Neighborhood Arts Network & North York Arts. Online.
Speaker & Mentor.
Network Connector Meetups. Creative Users Projects. Online. Guest Artist & Mentor.
Unscripted: KINSHIP. ReDefine Arts. Online. Podcast series Co-Curator with Becky Gold.
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2021
Disability Justice & Mural Arts: Building Pathways To Access. Mural Arts, 20th National Mural Symposium. Online. Panel Moderator.
Unscripted: Cultivating Languages of Access & Storytelling. ReDefine Arts & Theatre Passe Muraille. Online. Panel series Co-Curator with Becky Gold.
2020
Womxn and Taiko: Moving Beyond Binaries – Gender and Racial Justice in Taiko. Raging Asian Womxn Taiko Drummers. Online. Panelist.
Accessing The Arts: Creative Writing Focus Group. Creative Users Projects. Online. Artist Facilitator.
2019
Harbord Collegiate Institute Taiko Club. Instructor.
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2018
Disability Justice Art, Activism & Futures. Toronto Book Launch for Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice, by Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasingha. Toronto. Panelist.
Celebrating Marvellous Grounds: Panel & Reading. Naked Heart Festival. Toronto. Panelist.
2014
Broke, Tired, Disabled & Creative: Keynote. Noojimo Anish Wenjigdazod Kitchissippi: Healing Rage Ottawa Conference. Heron Community Centre, Ottawa. Keynote Speaker.
Intergenerational LGBTQ+ Organizing and Support. Campus Pride Week. University of Ottawa. Panelist.
TRAINING & RESIDENCIES
2023
Taiko Composition Intensive. Michelle Fuji. Toronto. Taiko
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2020
DIY Film Lab, Toronto Queer Film Festival. Toronto. Video.
Seeing Your Demons Ceramics Intensive. Seeing Your Demons Collective. Toronto. Ceramic Handbuilding.
2019
Inkling Incubator. Red Dress Productions. Toronto. Multi-disciplinary.
2018
Sketch: Fall Indie Studio Residency. Artscape Youngplace, Toronto. Mosaic.
Intergenerational LGBT Artist Residency. Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto Islands. Mosaic.
2017
MIXER Collaborative Process & Residency. Project Creative Users. Toronto. Multi-disciplinary.
RAW Drumming Apprenticeship (2017-2019). Raging Asian Womxn Drummers. Toronto. Taiko.
2015
Mosaic Arts Mentorship (2015 – 2019). Anna Camilleri. Toronto. Mosaic.
2014
Disability Arts Incubator Series. Project Creative Users. Toronto. Multi-disciplinary.