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Jiang Miao

JIANG MIAO

Vortex Evolution Whitestone Gallery 5 September–24 October 2026 Beijing
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Whitestone Gallery Beijing is pleased to announce artist Jiang Miao’s second solo exhibition Vortex Evolution at the gallery’s Beijing space, on view from September 5 to October 24, 2026. Centered on the vortex motif that has continued to develop throughout Jiang Miao’s recent practice, the exhibition draws connections across different bodies of work and traces the evolution of her visual language—from figurative subjects and inner landscapes toward structures of life and a broader cosmic order. Within this trajectory, the vortex becomes both a way of looking at the present and a means of reflecting on the past, while the origins of her newest works gradually come into focus through this process of transformation.

Working on wooden and aluminium panels, Jiang repeatedly layers acrylic paint before cutting into the surface with a carving knife, allowing previously concealed layers of colour to re-emerge. Acts of covering and removal, destruction and revelation, repetition and difference together form an internal structure of time within the works. Circular, irregularly shaped, and elongated suspended works further move beyond the constraints of the conventional rectangular frame, allowing the vortex to function not only as a visual form within the image, but also as a force that structures the exhibition space and guides the viewer’s movement through it. By placing oil paintings and early woodcuts alongside more recent works, the exhibition seeks to show how Jiang has developed from the linear experience and physical labour of printmaking toward an ongoing exploration of life, spirituality, time, and humanity’s relationship with the cosmos.

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About the Artist

Born in Jilin, China in 1981, Jiang Miao graduated from China Central Academy of Fine Arts (Printmaking Department), acquiring a BFA in 2005, and an MFA in 2009. From her early childhood, she has been strongly intrigued by an ancient civilisation and high wisdom. Since 2003, she has committed to the idea of yin/yang, point/line, and energy/life interpretation, thus forming an eastern worldview of ‘Nature and Man as one’. In recent years, Jiang has been working on themes concerning life. By applying ‘trigram’, ‘spiral’ as a symbol of soul, and energy-releasing colours as major visuals, her works suggest living truth of spirit, the soul, and body; they absorb energy from the invisible, then, release spiritual energy and magnetic field into the physical world, casting continuous thoughts for the future civilisation on the excessive materialised current world. Her works have been broadly exhibited at galleries and museums in Chinese speaking countries. In 2020, her first solo exhibition in Japan was held in Whitestone Ginza New Gallery and got favourable reviews.

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Whitestone Gallery
Sevenstar Street (E.), 798 Art District, No.4 Jiuxianqiao Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China
+86 10 59920796
http://www.whitestone-gallery.com

Opening hours
Tuesday – Saturday
11am – 6pm (November - April)
11am - 7pm (May - October)
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