Jessie Yingying Gong

I have a lasting fascination with subjects concerning identity, symbols and language. By using a variety of mediums, including image-making, textile, installation, and performance, I weave those themes through my work in ways that interconnect. Having spent my childhood in China, I find myself attracted to symbols that reflect and convey meaning, how they evolve through time and culture is a big part of my artistic interest. Body language, as a calligraphy of movement, is of equal interest to me. Through my practice, I explore how we discover and identify ourselves in an ever-changing context, researching topics that have a lot to reveal about us, our communities, and serve to chronicle our history on many levels.

I’m also part of the cross-disciplinary auction performance Dead Darlings collective, that challenges notions of value, demand, desirability and commerce in art .

Education

Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam 2012-2015

London College of Communication, London 2011-2012

Mail: jessie.yingying.g@gmail.com

Instagram: jessie.yingying.gong

Exhibition

Incorp World, EMST, Athens, 12.2024

Dead Darlings - A Public Affair, Oedipus Studio, Amsterdam, 06.2023

Dead Darlings - Issues!, Vrij Paleis, Amsterdam, 07.2022

Light Strokes, SinArts Gallery, The Hague, 06-07.2022

FLAM, Arti et Amicitiae / Overhoeks, Amsterdam, 05.2022

Dead Darlings - From Stage-freight to Limelight, Heimathafen, Berlin, 04.2022

2 Body Practice - W139 hosts..., W139, Amsterdam, 03.2022

Welcome! - 10 years of SAPH, MAXXI, Rome, 10.2021

Is-land, CHAxART, Amsterdam, 07-08.2021

New Semiotics, Hellas House, Shanghai, 05.2021

Not Applicable, Cream Athens, London, 03-04.2021

Dead Darlings - Love for Sale, W139, Amsterdam, 02.2021

404 Page Not Found, Kunstenhuis, Ghent, 10-11.2020

Art Rotterdam - Prospects & Concepts, Van Nellefabriek, Rotterdam, 02.2020

Take care of the little ones, SinArts Gallery, The Hague, 01.2020

Away with the Flow, H27 Gallery, Shanghai, 06.2019

Connecting Dots, 1929 Art Space, Shanghai, 05.2019

Venice Biennale, Swatch Faces Pavilion, Venice, 05-11.2019

Enfolding - a Study into the Gendered Scripts, The Orchid and The Wasp, Amsterdam, 03.2019

Dead Darlings Design, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, 02.2019

3rd Beijing Photo Biennale, CAFAM, Beijing & Beizhen, 09-11.2018

Open Studio, Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai, 06.2018

Babel Lelab, Eastcom Creative Zone, Hangzhou, 03.2018

Ladyfest, Uncaffé, Shanghai, 03.2018

How did it come so far, Helicopterstraat, Amsterdam, 11.2017

Double Landscapes, Sanquin, Amsterdam, 07-09.2017

Dead Darlings - Entropy, Foam, Amsterdam, 06.2017

Nasty Women, Galerie Josilda da conceição, Amsterdam, 03.2017

Retrouvailles, fanfare, Amsterdam, 09.2016

Same Time, Gallery Lokaal WV 15, Amsterdam, 12.2015

Weekender: Poetry Meets Photography - Brainwash Festival, Tabacco Theatre, Amsterdam, 10.2015

ASSORTI, Andenken / Battalion, Amsterdam, 09.2015

Graduation Show, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam, 07.2015

Wonder & Wander, Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, 04 - 05.2015

This could be us, de Punt, Amsterdam, 04.2015

It’s Chinatown, Galerie Vriend van Bavink, Amsterdam, 12.2014 - 02.2015

Global Traveller, Lane Crawford, Shanghai, 04 - 06.2014

Et cetera, HFBK, Hamburg, 05.2014

One Thousand Books, Copenhagen, 04.2014

Double-Sided, Weekender, Amsterdam, 02.2014

It’s like dressing up twice in the morning, PAKT, Amsterdam, 01.2013

Grants & Residency

Mondriaan Fonds, Kunst Media, 2025 (NL)

Makryammos, Artist Residency, 09.2023 (GR)

Nature+, Artist Residency, 05.2021 (CN)

AGA LAB, Artist Residency, 02.2021 (NL)

Mondriaan Fonds, Projectinvestering Kunstenaar, 2021 (NL)

Mondriaan Fonds, Werkbijdrage Jong Talent, 2018-2019 (NL)

Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Artist Residency, 01-06.2018 (CN)

Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, Spreekuur, 09.2015 (NL)

Publication & Talk

Artist Talk, online lecture, Central Saint Martins, 12.2021 (UK)

Artist on Artist, talk, ELEVATE, 03.2021 (CN)

Elephant Art, featured article, 12.2020 (UK)

Metropolis M, featured article, 09.2019 (NL)

Artist Talk, ELEVATE, 08.2019 (CN)

Elephant Art, featured article, 06.2019 (UK)

Cosmopolitan, featured article, 06.2019 (IT)

Harpers Bazaar, featured article, 05.2019 (KR)

ET Fashion, featured article, 05.2019 (TW)

VOGUE, featured article, 05.2019 (IT)

Collater, featured article, 05.2019 (IT)

Girls Like Us Magazine, featured article, 11.2018 (NL)

Madness, featured article, 08.2017 (CN)

Digital Photo Magazine, featured article, 08.2017 (CN)

KwartZwart, featured photography, 06.2016 (NL)

Confucious Magazine, featured article & photography, 01.2015 (DE)

Neocha, featured article & photography, 07.2013 (CN)

De Gids, contributing photography, 05.2013 (NL)

(b.1990) is a Chinese visual artist and photographer, whose works often speak of personal and collective memory, cultural identity, symbols and language.

Currently based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.