Photo: Natasha Sadikin
Nova Jiang (b. 1985, Dalian, China) lives and works in Los Angeles. Jiang’s practice often combines new technology and traditional artmaking techniques in unfamiliar ways, and spans painting, sculpture, work on paper, and public art. Her work is informed by her experience as a young immigrant growing up in New Zealand as well as wider concerns over climate change and xenophobia. Her works juxtapose familiar elements and arrange them in unexpected ways in order to explore the formation of identity and our uneasy relationships with nature. She has had recent exhibitions at Simone Subal, New York; Union Pacific, London; Honor Fraser, Los Angeles; LAXART, Los Angeles; Centre Pompidou, Paris; National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung; ICC, Tokyo, among other venues. Nova is the recipient of Fellowships from Skowhegan, Eyebeam and Wave Hill as well as major public art commissions in Los Angeles, Cambridge (Massachusetts), Sacramento, Seattle, Charlotte and San Diego. She has presented her work at ICA LA and the Hammer Museum.
