Karen Jiang

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b.1997 United States.
Lives and works in London, UK.
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How can we approach viewing and thinking about things we do not understand? In my practice, I delve into a timescale beyond the human. I am interested in the elements that have existed before and will continue to exist after human existence. Mark making emerging in the canvas vibrate in the space constructed by vertical lines. Each phenomenon within linear space is distinctive and irreproducible—highlighting the relative rather than the absolute. The paintings are between stillness and motion, whole and divided, painted and bare, but never either. Line and form are not arbitrarily placed, nor do they depict land or sea. The ubiquitous nature of this encounter is reflected in the seemingly monochromatic palette of each painting. This internal directionality of questioning opens a dimension where the possibility and impossibility of knowing and being outside of the human condition exists.



Education

2023-24
MA Painting, Royal College of Art (RCA), London, UK  
              
2015-19
BFA Industrial Design, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Providence, USA                


Selected Residencies

2023
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, USA

2022
Nohga X AIR3331, Tokyo, Japan

2019
NES Artist Residency, Skagaströnd, Iceland


Two Person Exhibition 

2024 
Television Centre, London, UK


Selected Group Exhibitions

2024        
Time Mosaic, ASC Gallery, London, UK 
 
Hazy Horizons, Noho Showrooms, London, UK 

RCA Painting Postgraduate Degree Show, London, UK

2022      
Within a Cosmos
, 3331 Arts Chiyoda [AIR 3331], Tokyo, Japan

GEISAI #21, Tokyo, Japan          




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