Jessie Yingying Gong

Having been born and raised in China before setting out to study and live in Europe; prompted in Jessie a lasting fascination with the topics of memory, identity, symbols and language. She is currently developing a series of works regarding the form, materialization and development of language. The research into these aspects of language, with a focus on the written forms, leads her to a kind of archaeology of symbolism, that serves to chronicle our history on a multitude of levels.

Jessie studied in London College of Communication and Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. She has completed several artist residencies, and been awarded Young Talent and Artist Project contributions from Mondriaan Fonds. She actively participates in international exhibitions; her work has been to Venice Biennale, Beijing Photo Biennale, MAXXI, Art Rotterdam, W139, etc. Jessie is based in Amsterdam and Shanghai.

Education

Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam 2012-2015

London College of Communication, London 2011-2012

Mail: jessie.yingying.g@gmail.com

Facebook: facebook.com/jessie.yingying

Instagram: jessie.yingying.gong

Exhibition

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

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)

Grants & Residency

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)

(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.