About Vine Cents

Vincent is a Chinese-American multimedia artist. Starting out in childhood with simple crayons, ballpoint pens and 2HB pencils (that he still loves to use, by the way), they've expanded to painting and later incorporating collaged magazine clippings, fabric, thrifted clothes and digital media.

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Identity in art and politics is not dead and it maybe never be - at least not while certain populations are still targeted and end up dead, both physically and psychologically. Being adopted from China into a white, American, Protestant-Jewish household and identifying as trans masculine nonbinary, Vincent has found a constant need for creative expression that they find hard to describe using language that is still incredibly tied to binaries - something the human experience inherently rejects. He explores this in his art thinking about the relationships we form with other people that affect the perception we have of ourselves using systems of expectation, disillusionment, duplication and grief. In Carl Jung's philosophy, it is the intermingling of the ego, shadow and persona. Influenced by Eastern Daoism and Buddhism, Vincent explores the idea of the individual as it connects with others and the universe as one breathing being.