Nathan is a queer, formerly undocumented immigrant artist and cultural organizer raised in Hong Kong and based in Los Angeles. Working across photography, installation, performance, and social practice, Nathan’s work explores queer third spaces, migration, belonging, chosen family, and collective liberation. Shaped by his experience as a formerly undocumented immigrant, more than a decade of social justice work and cultural organizing, and experiences in queer nightlife, go-go dancing, and sex work, his practice explores how people navigate liminal spaces, create sanctuary, and transform conditions of precarity into sites of agency and possibility.

He is particularly interested in the intersections between immigrant and queer sanctuary spaces, and in radical traditions of imagining freedom beyond existing systems of oppression. Drawing from abolitionist aesthetics, social movements, and queer theory, Nathan sees his works as interventions to challenge systems of oppression and create spaces of freedom. His work centers queer joy, collective memory and world-building as practices of resistance and potentialities to imagine new worlds beyond borders and institutions.

Nathan holds an MFA from The California Institute of the Arts and an MA from the University of California, Los Angeles.