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

Hybrid Nature, Alisan Fine Arts New York, New York, USA

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