Using sculpture, Irene June invites the audience to engage in a personal narrative of diasporic reconciliation and healing. His current work explores the spine as a physical protector of the self, our connection to heaven, and as a grounding site for unwavering self worship. Through a material-research based practice, each sculpture becomes a visualization of transgender and Taiwanese-American cultural survival.

June is a recent MFA graduate in Sculpture at UT Austin and a recipient of the College of Fine Arts Academic Excellence Continuing Fellowship Award in 2023. He has been featured in The Texas Daily, Oregon ArtsWatch, and Oregon Quarterly, and has exhibited in solo and group shows in Portland and Eugene OR, Seattle WA, and most recently Austin, Texas.