DAWN JIAN
Born 1991 in Guangzhou, China. Lives and works in Los Angeles and Hong Kong
EDUCATION
2014 MA, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Baltimore, MD
2013 BFA, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Summa Cum Laude, Baltimore, MD
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026 What the Earth Gives, Xiqiao Mountain Art Museum, Nanhai, China
2025 MOORDN Contemporary Art Fair, 5+1 Gallery, Guangzhou, China
2025 Light Lingers in Gentle Skies, Wyndham Social, Hong Kong
2024 Come Rain or Shine, Ponte 16 Resort, Macau
2019 Superfine Art Fair, San Francisco, CA
2018 爽 Shuang, #1 Art Space, Sanshui, China
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 Journey of Art in Colors of the Heart, Tang Art Museum, Dongguan, China
2025 Time as Flower, Beijing Museum of Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Summer Poetry, T3 Space on the Bund, Shanghai, China
Affordable Art Fair, R&J Gallery, Hong Kong
Patching Live Art Festival, TIT Creative Park, Guangzhou, China
2024 ART021 Shanghai, HWAS Gallery, Shanghai, China
2021 Emotions Embodied: Abstractions from the West Coast, Art Scene West, Online
Conceptual Abstraction, Orenda Art Works, Online
2020 The Next Generation, Healdsburg Center for the Arts, Healdsburg CA
2019 Abstraction, Radian Gallery, San Francisco, CA
East of West, State of California Building, San Francisco, CA
2017 Salon Show, Space 776, Brooklyn, NY
Wish You Were Here, Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY
SELECTED PUBLIC ART PROJECTS
2024 Fonte de Lotus, water sculpture commission, Macau, China
2023 PadaP’goda, Burning Man Honoraria Project, Black Rock City, NV
2021 Box Shop Mural Project, San Francisco, CA
AWARDS / GRANTS / RESIDENCIES
2025 Art Creator Award, LeaderClub Cultural Association, Shanghai, China
2023 Honoraria Grant, Burning Man Project, San Francisco, CA
2018 QinChun Artist Residency, Changzhou, China
Emerging Artist Award, QinChun Artist Residency, Changzhou, China
2016 Market Street Prototyping Festival Selected Project Grant, San Francisco, CA
2013 MECU Neighborhoods Events Grant, Office of Promotion and Arts, Baltimore, MD
Frances Merrick Scott Grant, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Office of Community Engagement Special Project Grant, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
SELECTED PRESS
Interview | LA and Hong Kong-based Artist dawn jian, Asian Art Contemporary
Between Glitch and Gesture: dawn jian, Art Vanguard
dawn jian | From Screen to Mineral Layer: An Investigation into Digital Materiality, 术art
SELECTED INSTITUTIONAL & CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Bank of China, Macau, China
Prudential Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
MLF Cultural Research Institute, Shanghai, China
BH Luxury Group, Beijing, China
Villa de Mer, Macau, China
L’Arc Macau, Macau, China
Broadtrade Group, New York, NY
Law Offices of Andrew H. Dai, San Francisco, CA
HUE Gallery of Contemporary Art, Wichita, KS