about Lark.
artist statement:
Lark is a stop-motion and scratch film animator, and a self-described professional rummager. They dig through archival videos, old magazines, and their grandfather’s 16mm film collection, reconstructing both impersonal and personal fragments together. They create stop-motion and scratch film animations that are trans* in all senses of the term—transgenerational, transgressive, transgender, and transformational. Borrowing from Cathy Cohen, Lark sees transness not as a stable identity marker, but as a fugitive, lawless force—one that is fluid and escapes towards radical futures. Lark captures this notion of transness as elusive and disruptive through their movement and reappropriation of paper scraps and home videos. They are interested in a range of materials but are often drawn to those from the 1950s-1970s eras that depict consumerism, gender roles, and suburbanization. Lark grew up in the pinnacle of normality, a white middle-class suburbia with a large, flashy shopping mall. They are Taiwanese-Chinese American, but were raised by parents who grew up bouncing around rural America—much of their culture and language lost along the way. Their work reimagines and restructures their childhood’s rigidity—grasping at lost memories and connections to heritage, and simultaneously pushing forward into new, queerer territories.
bio:
Lark is a recent Art Practice and Sociology graduate from the University of California, Berkeley. They live and create in San Francisco, California. Their work has been screened at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), Kearny Street Workshop, and the Roxie Theater (San Francisco), among others. Currently, they manage social media and press as a Digital Media and Archives Assistant at 500 Capp Street and assist with art production and administration as Stephanie Syjuco’s studio assistant. Artists they have worked with include Stephanie Syjuco, Catherine Wagner, Mildred Howard, Trina Michelle Robinson, and the collections of David Ireland and have curated two shows at 500 Capp Street. At UC Berkeley, they were awarded the Certificate of Excellence in Video, Sociology Citation Honorable Mention, Berkeley Center of New Media Fellowship, Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Trans Research Fellowship, Charlene Conrad Liebau Library Research Prize, and the Cal Alumni Leadership Award.
contact:
email: larkc[at]berkeley.edu
instagram: @larkie.poo
CV [05/2026]