Jiajun was born and raised in Hangzhou, China. He is currently living and working as an artist in San Francisco/Bay Area and Shanghai, China.
EDUCATION:
2020 MFA, Photography, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT.
2015 BFA with high distinction, Photography, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA.
EXHIBITIONS:
2022 Spring Rolls: Spring Sleep Misses Dawn 2022, Inna Art Space, Hangzhou, China. (Group Exhibition)
You Know Me Better Than That, Schein Space, Hangzhou, China.
2021 What is the also?, Archive/Project Space, Pittsfield, MA. (Group Exhibition)
Hindsight 2020, Green Hall Gallery, New Haven, CT. (Group Exhibition)
Instance Zone, INSTANCE, Shanghai, China. (Group Exhibition)
2020 Hindsight 2020, Online Thesis Exhibition, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT. (Group Exhibition)
2019 Odds and Ends Art Book Fair, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT.
Untitled (MFA 2nd Year Fall Show), Green Hall Gallery, New Haven, CT. (Group Exhibition)
2018 Odds and Ends Art Book Fair, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT.
Run What You Brung, Green Hall Gallery, New Haven, CT. (Group Exhibition)
2016 2016 Kala Artists’ Annual Exhibition, Kala Gallery, Berkeley, CA. (Group Exhibition)
Fermata, Kala Gallery, Berkeley, CA. (Group Exhibition)
The 2016 Baccalaureate Exhibition: Exit Interview, Campus Center Galleries, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA. (Group Exhibition)
Two Easts: Chinese Photographers in America, 103 Allen Street Gallery, New York City. (Group Exhibition)
Transformations: From Iceland to CCA, College Avenue Galleries, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA. (Group Exhibition)
2015 Raised by Water, North Gallery, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA.
CCA Fall Scholarship Dinner Exhibition, Perry Family Event Center, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA. (Group Exhibition)
3/4 Frames: Amigo x Apt. 401, Campus Center Galleries, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA. (Group Exhibition)
2015 All College Honors Fine Arts Exhibition, Campus Center Galleries, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA. (Group Exhibition)
Untitled Senior Project in Progress, Test Strip Gallery, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA.
The Bulk Section, Campus Center Galleries, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA. (Group Exhibition)
There You Go, (de)Appropriation Wall, San Francisco, CA. (Public Installation)
Untitled Landscapes, Test Strip Gallery, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA.
2014 So Far, So Close, Oliver Art Center, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA. (Group Exhibition)
So Far, So Close, Test Strip Gallery, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA.
The Athena Project (collaborative mural painting with Arise High students), by Fruitvale BART station, Oakland, CA.
EXPERIENCE:
Sept. 2009 - Present Freelance Photographer, Jiajun Wang Photography.
Mar. 2020 - May 2020 TA, Intermediate Film Writing and Direction with Jonathan Andrews, Yale University.
Jan. 2020 - Mar. 2020 TA, Form for Content: View Camera with Benjamin Donaldson, Yale University.
Sep. 2018 - Sep. 2019 Lab Technician, Yale University School of Art graduate photo lab.
Oct. 2016 TA at Kala Art Institute & Gallery, Berkeley, CA.
Jun. 2016 - Present Co-Founder, d3i press.
May 2016 - Present Assistant to Taro Hattori.
Apr. 2016 - Apr. 2017 Intern at Kala Art Institute & Gallery, Berkeley, CA.
Sept. - Dec. 2015 Digital Archive Intern at Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
Feb. - Dec. 2015 Photography Lab Technician, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA.
Jan. - May 2014 Mentor at Arise High for The Athena Project Mural, Oakland, CA.
Oct. 2008 - July 2011 School Photo Journalist, Jiangnan Film and Television Art College, Wuxi, Jiangsu.
Dec. 2010 - Jan. 2011 News Cameraman Intern, Hangzhou TV station, Hangzhou, Zhejiang.
AWARDS:
2018 - 2020 Andrea Frank Foundation Sanyu Scholarship Fund.
2015 All College Honors Fine Arts Scholarship in 2D.
PUBLICATIONS & BIBLIOGRAPHY:
2021 Raised by Water by Photographer Jiajun Wang 19.03.21 — ANNA, Booooooom.com.
2020 Hindsight 2020 Yale Photo 2020 thesis book, text by Carmen Winant.
Assignment photographer for Jonathan Rothberg’s Race to Invent the Ultimate Rapid At-Home COVID-19 Test, By Gideon Lewis-Kraus, August 29, 2020. The New Yorker.
2016 Untitled-11/2015-#11 from Raised by Water, The California Sunday Magazine Instagram Post (May 14th).
Two Easts: Chinese Photographers in America, 103 Allen Street Gallery, New York City (Online Catalog).
ARTIST TALKS:
2021 Artist talk: 图像与记忆痕迹 at Communication University of Zhejiang.
2020 Artist talk at California College of the Arts, Jr. Tutorial / Sr. Projects class with Nelson Chan.
2016 Fermata Gallery Talk, Kala Art Institute & Gallery, Berkeley, CA.
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS:
2021 Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library at Yale University Not A Pedophile Portfolio.