Vesper Jia
Biography
Vesper Jia (b. China, 1999) is an artist and writer who plays with various materials and explores their metaphorical meaning. Inspired by language and literature, she incorporates the essence of imagery and metaphor in her visual art works. Each physical and representational element of her works could be seen as symbols, through which she celebrates as well as challenges the materiality, and generates as well as provokes reflections. Her works draw a shape of the vital, the mortal, the mystic, and the dualistic, as “works made for contemplation.”
Education
2021 - 2022
Master of Arts Program in the Humanities, University of Chicago
2017 - 2021
BFA with Distinction, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Awards
2021 - 2022
2017 - 2021
2019
Division of the Humanities Scholarship, University of Chicago
Creative Honors Scholarship, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
First Year Scholar Award, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Solo Exhibitions
2021
Les Petites Morts, KeyElements Studio, Online
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021
2021
2021
2020
2018
Healing Chaos curated by Alice Máselníková, Ladies Drawing Club, Online
Redirecting, Tree Art Gallery, Beijing
Now More Than Ever, 33 Gallery, Chicago
Backyard Stories, Zhou B Art Center, Chicago
Art Bash, Site Gallery, Chicago
Publications & Bibliography
2021
2021
2018
First Edition Magazine, Ladies Drawing Club
Issue #9, Ladies Drawing Club
"Da Capo," Aspartame, self-published artist book
With love,