b. 1971, Hunan province, China; lives and works Beijing

Jiang Zhi is an artist whose multifaceted practice at an intersection of personal emotion, social reality, and poetic reflection. Working fluidly across photography, painting, video, and installation, Jiang crafts visual narratives that move between the intimate and the collective, the lyrical and the analytical. His works are deeply rooted in lived experience, whether private memories, shifting relationships, or the complexities of contemporary Chinese society, they become recurring threads in his artistic language.

Trained in painting, Jiang first came to prominence through his innovative photographic works, which revealed his sensitivity to both form and feeling. Over time, his practice has expanded to embrace a wide range of materials and methods, each employed to question how images shape, distort, and reflect reality. By merging the rigor of conceptual inquiry with the emotional charge of poetry, Jiang positions himself at a crossroads between sociology and aesthetics.His images often inhabit an ambiguous space between the real and the imagined: flowers ignite yet remain impossibly pristine; domestic scenes dissolve into dreamlike distortions. Through such quiet acts of transformation, Jiang invites viewers to reconsider the fragility of perception and the hidden tensions beneath ordinary life.

Recent solo exhibitions include The Man in the Crowd, Xie Zilong Image Art Museum, Changsha (2025); Life, Aranya Art Center, Beidaihe (2024); No Secret Between Us Anymore, Osage Gallery, Hong Kong (2022); Between Landscapes, Mangrove Gallery, Shenzhen (2021); Can I Become Better?, Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong (2020); Hypocenter, SiloSilo, Zurich (2019); Already I Know the Storms, Magician Space, Beijing (2018); Going and Coming, Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong (2018); To Make with Changes, HDM Gallery, Beijing (2017); One Is All, All Is One, TKG+, Taipei (2017); ALL, OCAT Shenzhen (2016); The Sight, White Cube, Hong Kong (2015); Strait is the Gate, Magician Space, Beijing (2012); Love Letters, M97 Gallery, Shanghai (2012); Impure Light, Saamlung Gallery, Hong Kong (2012) and If This Is a Man, Times Museum, Guangzhou (2012). Selected group exhibitions include Stay Connected: Navigating the Cloud, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong (2025); the 10th Daegu Photo Biennale (2025); Unfinished Time: Chinese Contemporary Art of the 1980s × 1990s, Taikang Art Museum, Beijing (2025); The Writings of Today Are a Promise for Tomorrow, Saudi Arabian Museum of Contemporary Art at Jax, Diriyah (2024); presentations at M+, Hong Kong (2023 and 2021); Tales of the South, He Art Museum, Foshan (2023) and How Far, How Close, Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong (2023).

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