Jia Jia

My artistic practice has been influenced by my experience of living, studying and working between China and America. I am curious both about personal emotion, and about the larger factors at work in society and cultural contexts which influence individuals deeply. I am interested in how technological developments bring about synchronization and globalization in communication. Topics I explore and challenge the audience to experience in my work include: What do we receive from the image world? How do different media interact? How can we understand that truism that “seeing is believing” in a contemporary context, and how is that belief made real at the level of our bodies and senses?

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Jia Jia is a multi-media artist. She works primarily in installation, and incorporating sculpture, video, and performance. Her practice uses satire and humor to imagine everyday objects anew. The work questions how globalization and a technologically saturated society influence the ideology of the individual and how the individual behaves in a society filled with contradiction and stimulation. Having studied and worked between China and the United States, Jia Jia’s artistic practice is influenced by the countries’ contrasting socialization and cultural differences. She earned her BFA in Ceramics from China Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2016 and MFA in Sculpture from University of Washington in 2021. She also studied as an exchange student in Alfred University’s Ceramics Department and was a resident with California State University, Long Beach.