Jennifer Wen MA, born in 1973 in Beijing, China, moved to the United State in 1986 and received her Masters degree in Fine Art from Pratt Institute in 1999. She continues to work and live between the two cities.
Read MoreMA's interdisciplinary practice bridges various media such as installation, video, drawing, fashion design, performance, and public art together, combining unlikely elements in a single work. Her work often addresses complex contemporary social situations, such as the SARS epidemic, as well as invokes classical myth and philosophy. Traces of her Chinese heritage can be found throughout her works as she explores Chinese ink painting in her Inked series.
MA's installations and videos extend and reinterpret Asian aesthetics within a contemporary sense of time and space. She stimulates our senses to affect our perception and experience of a specific site or state of mind. As her works are drawn from personal experiences and tales, they tenderly reveal her inner emotions and speak of heartrending moments in life while weaving poignantly between history, art and culture.
Text courtesy Eslite Gallery.
