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About the Artist

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Huanyan is a multimedia artist who focuses on using art and storytelling to encourage critical thinking, community building, and healing.

With a strong life science, mental health, and artistic background, Huanyan constantly seeks to integrate various disciplines in her works - recreating memories through multiple mediums (e.g. portraits, paintings, fabrics, clay), while supporting education and social movements. She enjoys co-creating in community, marked by 

Education

  • Harvard Graduate School of Education (2024-2025)

    • Program: Learning Design, Innovation and Technology

    • Concentration: Arts and Learning

  • Yale-NUS College (2019-2023)

    • BSc. Life Sciences, Minor in Arts and Humanities

 

Selected Exhibitions and Events

  • Sounds of the Diaspora: An Ode to Joy (as part of Sounds of the Diaspora)

  • Veritas? Naming and Reclaiming [Y]our Truth (as part of HGSE Commission for Community and Public Art)

  • Embracing Science with Colors: A Pandemic Story (as part of Deko)

  • PACE Conference: Visible & Valued: The Role of Pan-Asian Leaders in a Globalized World (as the panel lead for 2 panels, facilitator of the fireside chat, and Co-Chair of Design and Communications)

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Publications

  • Book: CoVID-19 Special Edition

  • Book: Brave Girl [not] Eating

  • Book: Fighting Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)

  • Paper: Optogenetic approaches for understanding homeostatic and degenerative processes in Drosophila (published in Cell Mol Life Sci)​

  • Illustrations: Raffles Institution CCA Leaders Notebook

  • Workbook: Resilience & Success in College: A Mental Health Training Program (Yale-NUS College)

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Selected Speeches and Workshops​

  • "Brave Girl not Eating" at

    • RGS Interschool Peer Support Conference 2018

    • Workshop "Brave Girl not Eating" at National Library Board, 2018

    • Creative Say opening, 2018

    • Raffles Science Symposium 2018

    • Raffles Science Symposium 2019

  • Mood Management Workshop at YMCA Singapore, 2019

  • Suicide Support Workshop at Yale-NUS College, 2019

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Others

  • Designer for nomVnom logo and staff T-Shirt

  • Designer for Cozy Corner (now closed) menu 

  • Designer for Meng Cha Cha logo

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