BIO
Kunjin Jiang is a multi-disciplinary artist.
She graduated from the School of Visual Arts MFA Fine Arts Program in 2020. And she got a BFA majoring in Drawing & Painting (Integrated Art) from Sichuan Fine Arts Institute (China) in 2017.
She likes spending time to notice some slight or sensitive things in life and present them in videos or installations. She also does some interactive art to connect with her audiences and the surroundings. For examples, some performances and street projects she did in public spaces: To The Void in New York (2020), One Minute Length in New York (2019 - 2020), Not Good Not Yet in New York and Paris (2018 - 2019), Invisible Line in New York (2018), My Faces in New York and Paris (2018 - 2019), Nameless Land in New York (2018).
Exhibitions
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08/2020 - A State of Apathy, SVA MFA Fine Arts Open Studios, 133 West 21st Street, New York
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07/2020 - To The Void, Shifting Realities-The Art Market Studies Graduate Exhibition, Fashion Institute of Technology
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04/2020 - Encounter, Intimate Space, SoMad Studio, New York
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12/2019 - SVA MFA Fine Arts Open Studios, 133 West 21st Street, New York
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10/2019 - One Minute Length, Sole Art Project, Open Source Gallery. 306 17th Street, Brooklyn, New York
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07-08/2019 - Court, Art Lot’s Summer Exhibition, 206 Columbia Street, Brooklyn, New York
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04/2019 - Décadence-Sublime, Environmental Group Exhibition, Galerie Joseph, Paris
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04/2019 - My Faces-Live, SVA Fine Arts Open Studios, 133 W 21 St. New York
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03/2019 - Yellow Faces-Photograph, Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
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02/2019 - Growing, Here There, New Year Exhibition, Westfield World Trade Center, New York
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10/2018 - Emptiness, MFA Fine Arts Open Studio, School of Visual Arts, New York
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07-08/2017 - What am I going to do, Where-Art Exhibition, Chongqing
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07/2017 - Horizon Line, Shangxia-Excellent Graduate Exhibition of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, T2 International Center of Contemporary Art, Chongqing, China
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12/2016 - Present, Xiu Tan Ban Lan-Installation Art Exhibition, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute
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12/2016-01/2017 - Xianglian (Connection), Selected by the 20th Art Graduates’ Distinguished Art Work Exhibition, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing
Public Art / Performance
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01/2020 - Individual performance, Body Shadow Painting, Manhattan, New York
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10/2019 - Individual performance, 97.6 Sp.ft Square, Union Square, New York
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07-08/2019 - Nameless Land, New York and Paris
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04/2019 - Can't Stop When It Begins, Environmental Group Exhibition, Galerie Joseph, Paris
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2018-2019 - My Faces, Individual Performance, Time Square, New York
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10/2018 - Individual performance, Can't Stop When It Begins, School of Visual Art, New York
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09/2018 - Invisible Line, Artist: Kunjin Jiang, Multiplayer Performance, Central Park, New York
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08/2019 - Can't Stop When It Begins, Individual Performance, Flex Space 9 floor SVA. 133 W 21 St. New York
Curation
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06-07/2017 - Shang Xia- Graduation Exhibition of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing
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11-12/2016 - Installation Projects Exhibition- Final Presentation Exhibition, Chongqing
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05-06/2016 - Bud, Independent Artwork Exhibition from the art students of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing
STATEMENT
My interest lies in everyday ordinary things that are so close to us. I tread myself as the string player of bored and emptiness, the juggler of the order in everyday life. I find an artistic way to push those boring and normal things to the limits of tension and extremes. Interesting and incredible meaning is revealing.
Through this perspective, I interfere with the way that we as a culture understand ordinary things and then break the rules we use to experience them. I take these ordinary things, ‘re-engineer’ them and represent them as artworks that use installations, videos, and sounds. All these works are related to exploring modern people's living conditions, communication methods, spiritual pursuits.