b. 2000, Shanghai.
based in Oxford / Shanghai.
MFA, The Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, 2026
BFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2023
based in Oxford / Shanghai.
MFA, The Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, 2026
BFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2023
Jiang creates situations through on-site experimentation. They treat their work as a human archive.
They investigate how the qualities that differentiate humans from machines shape the foundation of future knowledge production. Performance scores, bodily protocols, discursive texts, rhizomatic diagrams, and provisional materials are grounding tools. Through making, Jiang attempts to resolve their relationship with AI in the cybernetic age.
In opposition to machine-provided control and transparency, Jiang is interested in how the human orders that coexist with paradox, withdrawal, and liminality produce authenticity, circulation, trust, and epistemic legitimacy. Their research begins by identifying enigmatic subjects in real life: social phenomena, established regulations, and materialized inventions. Through these subjects, Jiang explores what remains stubbornly human in a world increasingly shaped by data-based prediction, automation, and classification.
In their work, one may experience sensorial stimulation through blinking lights, encounter a ladder that cannot be climbed, or spot a six-fingered Mickey Mouse hand hanging from an IV stand.
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EDUCATION
2026 MFA, The Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
2023 BFA, Sculpture & Performance, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, US
REWARDS
2024 World Less Traveled Awards, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, US
SOLO/DUO SOLO EXHIBITION
2025 The Game Archive, SOOFA SUHE, Suhe Haus, Shanghai, China
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2026 Epigram in E, Gallery 46, London, UK
2026 love beams bricks dreams, New College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
2025 FOMO, Bleur Studio, London, UK
2025 Before Stepping into Tomorrow, M50-None Project Gallery, Shanghai, China
2025 GNOSTIC INDUCTION COUPLING INTEROSMOSIS, ACID, Shenzhen, China
2024 Ambition!, West Bund Art Center (Hall N), Shanghai, China
2024 mute BODY, Alte Handelsschule, Leipzig, Germany
2024 windy HOME, Tour de Franz, Leipzig, Germany
2023 Fall Undergraduate Exhibition 2023, School of the Art Institute of Chicago Gallery, Chicago, IL, US
PUBLIC ART
2023 Analog, Art on The Mart, The Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL, US
PERFORMANCE
2024 ‘Approaches to be an Experience Thief’, Third Room, Leipzig, Germany
2023 Impact Performance Festival 2023, School of the Art Institute of Chicago Gallery, Chicago, IL, US
2023 Cho-Cho-Cho-Choo Station, Comfort Station, Chicago, IL, US
2023 Orange Ladder, No Nation Art Gallery, Chicago, IL, US
2023 READINGS, Watershed Art and Ecology, Chicago, IL, US
2022 White Box-LOVE, ‘A Place We Long For’, The Research House for Asian Art(RHAA), Chicago, IL, US
RESIDENCY & FELLOWSHIP
2024 PILOTENKUECHE International Art Program, Leipzig, Germany
REVIEWS & PUBLICATIONS
2025 Mingyuan Museum, CYE × J Jiang: Reality Reconstruction of the Wanderer
2025 Yunyao Que, SOOFA SUHE, Spinning the Earth Like a Rubik's Cube
2024 Avena, Kintija, ‘J Jiang: Expanding into material’, PILOTENKUECHE International Art Program Press
CONTACT
nyjiang.j@gmail.com