Yifan Jiang and James J.A. Mercer
Mirror, Mirror
June 8 – July 6, 2024
There is something strange about walking around and being human. We use mouthy movements, to eat, to sing, to kill each other, and to get to the moon. Chairs are shaped like butts. There are billions and billions of butt-shaped objects across the globe.
Yifan Jiang (b. 1994, Tianjin, China) is a Canadian artist currently based in New York City. Jiang received her Master of Fine Arts at Columbia University (2021) and her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver.
A project-based artist, Jiang uses elements of painting, animation, sculpture, and performance. Taking an irreverent approach to epistemology, she explores the grey intersection of the scientific, the psychological, and the magical. Jiang works by honing in on quotidian moments and combining them seemingly unrelated elements from multiple cultures and disciplines.
Exhibitions in 2025 include Algorithms of Longing, Pace Gallery, Hong Kong (group) curated by Xin Wang, and AI, as Seen at the End of Ownership, Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou, China (group). Along with a number of exhibitions at Meliksetian | Briggs both solo and group, recent exhibitions include Space City: Art in the Age of Artemis at the Asia Society, Houston (group), To your eternity - The 4th Future of Today Biennial, Today Art Museum, Beijing (group), a solo exhibition at Christian Andersen, Copenhagen, and Vacation, a two-person exhibition with James J.A. Mercer at the Roswell Museum, Roswell, NM among others. Jiang was a resident at the prestigious Core Residency Program at the The Museum of Fine Arts Houston in the years 2022 to 2024.
