About
Photo by Jorge Lara
Artist Statement
I am a multidisciplinary artist. I use ephemera such as magazine and newspaper as well as acrylic and oil to make mixed medias. I also use joss paper. Chinese people burn joss paper to worship our ancestors. I use locally sourced clay mixed with chemical compounds that human bodies release when decaying in soil, ie. magnesium, nitrous, calcium, phosphorus, potassium, to make sculptures. These sculptures are designed to dissolve back into earth when exposed to the elements and benefit the surrounding soil. I also use my body as ephemeral sculptures to situate in nature.
I chose these mediums to show the journey that the material traverse in becoming the immaterial as filtered by socio-economic, ecological, and political systems. I use oil paint to illustrate and situate how within the context of patriarchy and colonialism, the role of joss paper, greenware mixed with human composition to dissolve back into soil, and ephemeral body sculptures, serve to reenact, reanimate, and reclaim the unspoken. So much of Asian American diaspora is a reaction to and against nothingness, unrecorded narratives.
My influences are the poems of Victoria Chang, earth/body sculptures of Ana Mendiete, collages of Mary Delaney, and Minoan frescoes and sculptures.
Artist Bio
Since graduating from the MFA program in 2022 at School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Jeannie Hua participated in the Longform residency at the Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’ Residency as well as Sitka Center for Art and Ecology. She recently had a solo show at Gallery 456 in NYC. She won a NYC fellowship from Foundation for Contemporary Art to assist with the show.
She had a solo show at Core Contemporary as part of the Post-Invisibles 2024 Biennale with 15 simultaneous shows in Montreal, Toronto, Lyon, Paris, Mexico City, Bahamas, and Las Vegas. Jeannie taught various collage workshops including at the Ox-Bow School of Art. Her work has been shown at BWAC and First Street in NYC, as well as Agitator and Woman Made in Chicago. She had a solo show at Barrick Museum’s window gallery and at College of Southern Nevada’s ArtSpace Gallery. She is currently adjunct faculty in art and art history at CSN.
She has participated in group exhibitions in galleries and museums in New York, Illinois, California, Nevada, Michigan, Virginia, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Utah, Tennessee, Oregon, and Orquevaux, France. She was the recipient of the Denis Didero Grant, Nevada Council of Arts Grant, as well as merit scholarship to Ox-Bow School of Art, Ox-Bow residency and Penland School of Crafts.
CV (click here for downloadable CV)
Jeannie Hua
Art Education
2022 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL, M.F.A.
1989 University of Chicago, IL, B.A. in Art History
Residencies
2025 Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Artist in Residence, Otis, OR
2024 Ox-Bow School of Art, Artist in Residence, Saugatauk, MI
2019 Chateau Orquevaux, Artist in Residence, Orquevaux, FR
Solo Exhibitions
2025 “Invisible Memories,” Gallery 456, New York, NY
2024 “Territory/Boundaries,” Post-Invisibles 2024 Biennial, Core Contemporary, Las Vegas, and 14 other exhibits in Montreal, Paris, Lyon, Toronto, Quebec City, Mexico City
2023 “Tailings,” Window Gallery at UNLV Barrick Museum of Art, Las Vegas. NV
2023 “Trace and Tracings,” Art Space Gallery at the College of Southern Nevada, Las Vegas, NV
2018 “8 Reasons Why,” Asian Community Development Center, Las Vegas, NV
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 “Rock Show,” Ox-Bow School of Art, Saugatauk, MI
2024 “Works on Paper,” BWAC, Brooklyn, NY
2023 NAWA, Rockwell Gallery, New York, NY
2023 “Modern Romanticism,” Charleston Heights Art Center, Las Vegas, NV
2023 “Works on Paper,” Agitator Gallery, Chicago IL
2022 Small Works,” Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
2022 “Juried Exhibition,” First Street Gallery, New York, NY
2022 “Ox-Pole,” Saugautak, MI
2022 “Expanded Field in the Expanding Field,” Ox-Bow Open Studio, Saugautak, MI
2022 “Southwest – ‘Scapes,” Charleston Heights Art Center, Las Vegas, NV
2022 “FEMME,” Residence Hall Gallery, SAIC, Chicago, IL
2022 “Expressions West,” Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, OR
2022 “Rejected Hearts, “ The Drawing Room at Art Square, Las Vegas, NV
2022 “Year of the Tiger,” Historic 5th Street School, Las Vegas, NV
2021 “Blue Cube Installation,” Gallery 54, Las Vegas, NV
2021 “The FL3TCHER3R Exhibit,” The Reece Museum, Johnson City, TN
2021 “Emotional Weather,” Winchester Dondero Cultural Center, Las Vegas, NV
2021 “Year of the Ox,” The Historic 5th Street School Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
2021 “Seed to Seed,” College of Southern Nevada Art Exhibition, Las Vegas, NV
2021 “Making It,” SAIC Gallery, Chicago, IL
2020 “NVHead2 Toe,” Core Contemporary, Las Vegas, NV
2019 “Drawn From Life,” Upstream Gallery, Hastings on Hudson, NY
2019 “Matters of the Heart,” Las Laguna Gallery, Laguna, CA
2019 “Alternations,” Carlisle Arts Learning Center, Carlisle, PA
2019 “Year of the Pig,” The Historic 5th Street School Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
2018 “Signs of the Times, “ Gallery Clarendon, Arlington, VA
2018 “Collage a Trois,” R. Cline Arts Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
2018 “Group Hug,” PublicUs, Las Vegas, NV
2017 Group Exhibition, “Valley of Faces,” Winchester Cultural Center, Las Vegas, NV
Selected Publications
2018 Sacred Inception: Reclaiming the Spirituality of Birth in the Modern World, by Delaporte, book cover, 1st ed.
2018 Oyster River Pages, “Ode to Artemisia Gentileschi’s Judith Beheading Holofernes,” August 2018 edition.
Selected Press
2024 Gabriella Angeleti, Jeannie Hua’s Tailings Focuses on a Dark History Involving Chinese Americans, Mining
Waste, and a Burial Site, Southwest Contemporary
2023 Delaney Uronen, Meet the Attorney-Turned-Artist Who Subverts Xenophobic Narratives, Double Scoop
2023 Jorge Lara, Artist Jeannie Hua, The Vim Interview, Vim Magazine
Workshops
2024 Artist Contracts with Jeannie Hua, Public Art Education Series, City of Las Vegas Public Art Program
2024 All in the Family – Collage Workshop with Jeannie Hua, Nevada Humanities
2024 Why is Ephemera Not Ephemeral? An Online Collage Workshop with Jeannie Hua, Nevada Humanities
2023 Reincarnation Through Collage, Art in the Meadows, Ox-Bow School of Art
Grants
2024 Merit Scholarship for the Ox-Bow Artist in Residence program, Saugatauk, MI
2024 Project Grant, Nevada Arts Council and National Endowment of the Arts, Las Vegas, NV
2023 Project Grant, Nevada Arts Council and National Endowment of the Arts, Las Vegas, NV
2022 Richard Nantus Scholarship, SAIC, Chicago, IL
2021 Merit Scholarship for the Ox-Bow School of Art, Saugatauk, MI
2021 JC &HC Ewell Scholarship, SAIC, Chicago, IL
2019 The Denis Diderot (A-i-R) Grant, Chateau Orquevaux, FR
2018 Professional Development Grant and Jackpot Grant, Nevada Arts Council and National Endowment of the Arts
Non-Art Education
1994 Northwestern School of Law of the College of Lewis and Clark, Portland, OR, Juris Doctorate