Sung, Jia

Minnesota , USA
Jia Sung is an artist and educator, born in Minnesota, bred in Singapore, now based in Brooklyn.

Her paintings and artist books have been exhibited across North America, including the Knockdown Center, RISD Museum, Wave Hill, EFA Project Space, Lincoln Center, Yale University, and MOMA PS1. Her work has been published in The Paris Review, Emergence Magazine, Hyperallergic, Jacobin Magazine, and Asian American Writers Workshop, and collected by the Met, SFMOMA, and the Special Collections at Yale, SAIC, and RISD. She has taught at organizations like the AC Institute, Abrons Arts Center, Children’s Museum of the Arts, and Museum of Chinese in America. She was a 2018-2019 Smack Mellon Studio Artist and Van Lier Fellow, and is currently an adjunct professor at RISD, where she received her BFA in 2015.


BIOGRAPHY

1992  Born in Minnesota, USA

2015  BFA painting, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, USA

2017  Teaching Artist in Residence, Museum of Chinese in America, USA

2017-2018  Teaching Artist, Children’s Museum of the Arts, USA

2019  Visiting Lecturer, School of Visual Arts, USA

2019-2020  Teaching Artist in Residence, Hudson River Museum, USA

2019-2021  CreateNow Teaching Artist, Asian American Writers Workshop, USA

2019-2022  Guest Critic for BFA Seniors Final Reviews, New York University, New York, USA

2020- Adjunct Professor, Rhode Island School of Design, USA


SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025

  • Winged Seeds, Think!Chinatown, New York, USA

2024

  • The Tree of Heaven Falls, Island Gallery, New York, USA
  • astigmysticism, Island Gallery, New York, USA

2019

  • CHAOS/WHIMS/LUST, Knockdown Center, Maspeth New York, USA
  • Folkloric Taxonomy, Wave Hill, Bronx New York, USA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025

2023

  • Gathering, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn New York, David Zwirner Platform, USA
  • Collectors’ Night 2023 Benefit Auction, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington DC, USA
  • Benefit Exhibition, Smack Mellon Gallery, Brooklyn New York, USA
  • Two Years and Change, Olympia Gallery, Manhattan New York, USA
  • The Ripening, Pen and Brush, Manhattan New York, USA
  • Carrying the Effigy, Candice Madey, Manhattan New York, USA
  • S.E.A. Focus Presentation, Island Gallery, Singapore

2022

  • circular ruins, Island Gallery, Manhattan New York, USA
  • Pranamu, Life Force, Blackburn 50|50 Gallery, Manhattan New York, USA
  • The Letter H, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Manhattan New York, USA
  • Chew, scroll.nyc, Manhattan New York, USA
  • AIR Annual Exhibition, Textile Arts Center, Brooklyn New York, USA
  • Personal Mythologies, La Trobe Institute, Bendigo, Australia
  • Verso, Field Projects, online
  • Benefit Exhibition, Smack Mellon Gallery, Brooklyn New York, USA
  • Three-Legged Crow, Latitude Gallery, Manhattan New York, USA
  • Beast, Chimera, Kin, CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson New York, USA
  • Year of the Tiger, Hashimoto Contemporary, Manhattan New York, USA

2021

  • Book Fell Into The Ocean, Printed Matter/NADA, Miami Florida, USA
  • Small Works/Big Impact, Textile Arts Center, Brooklyn New York, USA
  • Proximity Alert, Le Maximum, Los Angeles California, , USA
  • Faculty Exhibition, RISD Museum, Providence Rhode Island, USA
  • There was only this world, this looted, ventriloquized Earth, Hook, online
  • Printed Matter Benefit Exhibition, Printed Matter, Manhattan New York, USA
  • In the Wake of Slumber, Paradise Palace, Brooklyn New York, USA
  • Quarantine Public Library, Center for Cartoon Studies, White River Junction Vermont, USA
  • Futures Ever Arriving, Gallery Jip/Pearl River Mart/Asian American Arts Alliance, Chelsea New York, USA
  • Market, Manhattan New York, USA
  • Afterlight, Field Projects, online
  • What Comes After, 601Artspace, online
  • Year of the Ox, Grumpy Bert Gallery, online

2020

  • Shady Parts, Chasm Gallery, Brooklyn New York, USA
  • Year of the Rat, Grumpy Bert Gallery, Brooklyn New York, USA

2019

  • the whole world was not accessible to my gaze, Carillon Gallery, Fort Worth Texas, USA
  • Inherit, Rubber Factory Gallery, Manhattan New York, USA
  • Every Woman Biennial, La Mama Galleria, Manhattan New York, USA
  • Smack Mellon Benefit Exhibition, Smack Mellon Gallery, Brooklyn New York, USA
  • Night at the Museum, Bubble T, MOMA PS1, Queens New York, USA
  • No Place Like, Field Projects Gallery, Manhattan New York, USA
  • Red Envelope Show, Flushing Town Hall, Queens New York, USA

2018

  • Endless Editions Biennial, EFA Project Space, Manhattan New York, USA
  • Ethereal: A Snapshot of Asian-American Artists, Manhattan New York, USA
  • Safe Imagination is Boring, Lincoln Center, Manhattan New York, USA
  • Immersion, Light Grey Art Lab, Minneapolis Minnesota, USA
  • Year of the Dog, Grumpy Bert Gallery, Brooklyn New York, USA
  • Send Me Across The Sea, Book and Job Gallery, San Francisco California, USA
  • Zine Wall, Chinatown Soup, Manhattan New York, USA

 

SELECTED AWARDS

2018-2019  New York Community Trust, Van Lier Fellowship

2018  Ignatz Award, nominated for work with comics quarterly Ley LINES

2017  American Illustrators 36

2015  Society of Illustrators Student Competition

2014  Society of Illustrators West


SELECTED COLLECTIONS

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manhattan New York, USA
Yale University, Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library Special Collections, New Haven Connecticut, USA
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, Chicago Illinois, USA
Rhode Island School of Design, Fleet Library Special Collections, Providence Rhode Island, USA
University of Bennington, Crossett Library Artists’ Book Collection, Bennington Vermont, USA
University of Pennsylvania, Zine Library, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, USA
Asia Art Archive in America, Brooklyn New York, USA
Ohio University, Special Collections, Athens Ohio, USA
SFMOMA, San Francisco California, USA
Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai, UAE
Poster Museum, Manhattan New York, USA
Quarantine Public Library, virtual
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