Yuehao Jiang (b. 1992, Suzhou) is an artist whose practice unfolds from the meeting of Chinese artistic tradition and contemporary digital culture. Raised in a family of painters amongst the centuries-old classical Ming and Qing dynasty gardens of Suzhou, China, she absorbed an early understanding of form, narrative, and material process that continues to guide her work in new media art. Since relocating to Los Angeles, Jiang has developed a distinctive visual language that draws on both classical Chinese painting principles and the evolving aesthetics of simulation, animation, and interactive media.
Her work pursues the exploration of the present – a contemporary, digital Chinese aesthetic – that translates the spiritual vitality of brushwork and ink into computational space. She studies historical manuals of Chinese painting and garden design, reading them as early systems of worldbuilding that anticipate today’s libraries of digital assets. Through 3D scanning, animation, and projection, she reimagines these traditions as living frameworks that link landscape, body, and technology.
Jiang’s work is exhibited internationally, with recent shows at Hubei Museum of Art (Wuhan), Guardian Art Center (Beijing), K Museum of Contemporary Art (Seoul), and the Jinji Lake Art Museum (Suzhou). She currently teaches visual design as an Adjunct Associate Professor at USC Media Arts + Practice. She has held teaching appointments at UCLA Design Media Arts and Parsons School of Design. Jiang holds a MFA in Design Media Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Jiang’s current project Spider Lily continues this research within an independently produced digital game. It transforms the structure of a video game into a meditation on care, purification, and rebirth, merging sculpture with myth and simulated environment.
︎ yuehaojiang@gmail.com
︎ Instagram
Her work pursues the exploration of the present – a contemporary, digital Chinese aesthetic – that translates the spiritual vitality of brushwork and ink into computational space. She studies historical manuals of Chinese painting and garden design, reading them as early systems of worldbuilding that anticipate today’s libraries of digital assets. Through 3D scanning, animation, and projection, she reimagines these traditions as living frameworks that link landscape, body, and technology.
Jiang’s work is exhibited internationally, with recent shows at Hubei Museum of Art (Wuhan), Guardian Art Center (Beijing), K Museum of Contemporary Art (Seoul), and the Jinji Lake Art Museum (Suzhou). She currently teaches visual design as an Adjunct Associate Professor at USC Media Arts + Practice. She has held teaching appointments at UCLA Design Media Arts and Parsons School of Design. Jiang holds a MFA in Design Media Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Jiang’s current project Spider Lily continues this research within an independently produced digital game. It transforms the structure of a video game into a meditation on care, purification, and rebirth, merging sculpture with myth and simulated environment.
︎ yuehaojiang@gmail.com
︎ Instagram