Born in Taipei, Annie was raised by multiple families, migrating perennially in her formative youth. Navigating ever-shifting environments and perspectives early on shaped her interest in the interstitial and liminal. Exploring complex narratives, challenging perception, and subverting space—her visual practice spans from investigative storytelling to collaboration and conjuring through experimental video works and immersive installations.
Exhibited nationally and internationally at the Gwangju Biennale, Photographic Center Peri, Epicentro Cultural, Gerðuberg Culture House, Mjólkurbúðin Gallery, The Factory, Kuldīgas Mākslas Nams, Budapest Photo Festival, Lumix Festival, Magenta Flash Forward Festival, Winter Street Gallery, Chashama, Anthology Film Archives, BRIC, and Union Docs, among others—her first solo show “A Floating Population” at Museum of Chinese in America in New York City featured over eighty images spanning four years of work. An archive of “81 Bowery” is in the permanent collection of Museum of the City of New York; and “Independent Mothers” in The National Museum of Iceland.
Her images have been featured in Frieze, American Photography, PDN Photo Annual, Internazionale, Die Zeit, GEO, Stuttgarter Zeitung, Epsilon Magazine, Tunica Magazine, Raw View, and Acts of Witness, among others. Select clients include The New York Times, NYT Magazine, New Yorker, NPR, The Atlantic, Wall Street Journal, Courrier International, FADER, New York Magazine, The Guardian, VQR, and South China Morning Post. In 2014, she partnered with ACTED offering coverage of emergency relief efforts and recovery in Kurdistan and Iraq. Annie has been a visiting artist and guest critic at Columbia University, International Center of Photography, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, Brooklyn College, Ryerson University School of Image Arts, Asian American Writers' Workshop, Al Jazeera America, and an instructor at Mono No Aware—a cinema arts non-profit based in Brooklyn, NY.
She is the recipient of a New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship, and a Director’s Fellowship from The International Center of Photography where she studied photojournalism and documentary photography. Annie also holds an MFA in Photography from the Yale School of Art, where she was awarded a Critical Practice Research Grant, an Alice Kimball Traveling Fellowship, and was a fellow at the Center for Collaborative Arts and Media.