• Skip to main content
  • Skip to footer

COMA

  • About
  • Exhibitions
  • Artists
  • Viewing Rooms
  • News
  • Advisory
  • Contact

Yirui Jia

Yirui Jia (b. 1997) moved to the United Stated from China in 2015, where she subsequently received her BFA from Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania and her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York.

Within Jia’s work resides a cast of characters—many of whom are derived from popular culture and cartoon influences to anthropomorphic objects and animals. Each character has its own complex identity within the childlike worlds in which they are portrayed, empowered by the reinvention of the ordinary. Jia embraces the idea of her paintings serving as visualized narratives to the sculptures and vice-versa. The first of her family to become an artist, Jia is inspired by daily life—the personal and shared experiences, “the undifferentiated universality of objects,” and, perhaps most importantly, the humor of it all.

–

Yirui Jia in her studio in New York, US, 2022. Photo by Garrett Carroll.

Yirui Jia
Inviting Me To Me, 13 January, 2023 - 18 February, 2023

Join our mailing list...

Footer

Darlinghurst, Sydney
First Floor, 71-73 Stanley Street
Darlinghurst, NSW, 2010
Australia

Chippendale, Sydney
2/27-39 Abercrombie Street
Chippendale, NSW, 2008
Australia

Tuesday – Friday
10.00am – 5.00pm

Saturday
10.00am – 4.00pm

info@comagallery.com
+61 412 338 228

Copyright © 2023 COMA Gallery