Evelyn graduated from University College London (UCL) with a B.A. in History and M.A. in History of Art. She is currently a PhD candidate in the Visual Studies program of University of California, Santa Cruz, working in the field of visual culture in Sino-Southeast Asia. Her dissertation, titled "Intimate Seas: Displacement and Radical Relationality in Migrant Image from Asian Borderwaters," examines how contemporary artists from Hong Kong and Taiwan deploy the ship as a radical chronotope that overhauls normative modes of relating to "strangers" in a society. She teaches and writes about diaspora, cultural identity, memory, and spectrality. As an art critic, she has received the Hong Kong Arts Development Awards - Award for Young Artist in Art Criticism and was shortlisted in the International Awards for Art Criticism. She has contributed catalog essays to a number of institutions, including M+ (Hong Kong) and Asian Art Museum (San Francisco).
Art of Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia; Sinophone cinema
Contemporary art and film of Asia and Asian diaspora; relationality; intimacies; cultural identity; history of trauma; memory
Modern and contemporary art of Asia; Asian visual culture; Sinophone cinema; global contemporary art
Arts Research Institute Summer Pathways Fellowship
SEACoast Junior Scholar Research Funds
Arts Dean's Fund for Excellence and Equity
UCSC Graduate Dean's Research Travel Grant
UCSC Regent's Fellowship
14th Hong Kong Art Development Awards - Award for Young Artist (Art Criticism)
International Awards for Art Criticism 2019 (short list)
“Echoes of the Sea: Mediating the Diasporic Memory of the Tankas in Ballad on the Shore,” CAA Annual Conference 2025
“Unlikely Archive, Unruly History: Leung Chi-wo’s Montage Works About Hong Kong’s 1967 Riots,” AAS-in-Asia 2024
“#hkurbanrecord: Cross-Surface Assemblage and the Practice of Care in Post-National Security Law Hong Kong,” UC Irvine Visual Studies Graduate Conference 2024
“Unmooring Hong Kong: Archipelagic Imagination in Law Yuk-mui’s Song of the Exile,” Society of Hong Kong Studies Annual Conference 2023.
”Imaging the Miaos: Construction of Ethnic Difference in Visual Productions of the Qing Empire", UC Riverside, Department of History of Art 11th Annual Graduate Conference
“Cyberpunk From the Margins: Kongkee and Dragon’s Delusion.” In Kongkee: Warring States Cyberpunk Exhibition Catalog. San Francisco: Asian Art Museum. (Forthcoming)
“Unmooring Hong Kong: Archipelagic Imagination in Law Yuk-mui’s Song of the Exile.” In The Seawater, So Blue It’s Black. Hong Kong: Aco, 2025.
“Floating Drifting Mobile Dwelling: Mobility as Sensibility in Jolene Mok’s Art Practice.” In Life is Elsewhere: Postcards from the Distant Land. Hong Kong: 1a space, 2022.
“Heterochronicity as écriture féminine: Problematising the Historical Traumas of Taiwan and Indonesia.” In Letter, Callus, Post-War. Taipei: dmp editions, 2020.
“Inventing Uselessness: on Japanese Influventors’ Revolt Against Work.” Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures, no. 22 (2020).
“Dancing with the Tool: Considering Technologies in ‘Playcourt’ and ‘Negotiated Differences’.” In Shirley Tse: Stakeholders, Hong Kong in Venice. Hong Kong: M+, 2019.
