Xiaohan Jiang
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Xiaohan Jiang (she/her) is a painter and poet based in Chicago. Her work explores the intersection of painting and poetry, drawing from the pastoral landscapes of her childhood in Northern China. Through allegorical imagery, she creates a spiritual realm where birds and horses become poetic symbols, and text intertwines with visual forms. Her work engages themes of transformation and identity, shaped by the tension between personal history and cultural dualities. Xiaohan received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2022 and completed her MFA in Painting and Drawing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2025.
Her work has been presented in exhibitions across the United States and internationally, including Patient Info Gallery (Chicago), Riverside Art Center (Chicago), Art Clvb (Detroit), Unveil Gallery (Irvine), 4C Gallery (Los Angeles), and Bonian Space (Beijing). In 2022, she held her first solo exhibition, Lowland Delusion, at Août Gallery in Beirut, Lebanon.
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions: Lowland Delusion, Août Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon, 2022;
Group Exhibitions: PAUSE, Riverside Art Center, Chicago, IL, 2025; Spring Graduate Exhibition, SAIC Galleries, Chicago, IL, 2025; Just Beyond the Sight, BONIAN SPACE, Beijing, China, 2025; A Clover and One Bee, Unveil Gallery, Irvine, CA, 2025; Open Call Exhibition 2024, Paintingsince2000, Online, 2024; Annual Open Call, MEPAINTSME, Online, 2024; Dance This Mess Around, Patient Info Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2024; BETA I, Art Clvb, Detroit, MI, 2023; 4C Exhibition 2023 Q4-Boundaries, 4C Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2023; Abnormal: Experimental Duplication, Inky Pixel, Guangzhou & Xi'an, China, 2022; Redirecting, Tree Art Museum, Beijing, China, 2021; Group Show, SHRINE, Online, 2021
Collections: A Box of Wonders and Delights, Department of Printmedia, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Dough Press RA 5.05. Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection, 2022