Xiaohan Jiang’s paintings reconstruct landscapes shaped by memory and migration. Drawing from her childhood in rural northern China, she explores the relationship between familiar and unfamiliar places, using landscape as a way to navigate memory, identity, and a search for belonging.

Rather than depicting specific locations, Jiang brings together fragments of different places and moments through layering. Recurring elements such as dry fields, hills, shifting light, and distant horizons create spaces where recollection and imagination overlap. Poetry informs her approach to image-making through association, rhythm, and omission.

Working with oil on jute, velvet, and wood, Jiang builds tactile surfaces through layering, erasure, and reconstruction. The physical qualities of these materials shape how images emerge, disappear, and return. Her paintings remain open between abstraction and representation, reflecting the shifting nature of memory and the ongoing search for a sense of place.

Xiaohan Jiang (b. 1998, Hebei, China) is a painter and poet based in Chicago. She received her BFA in Studio (2022) and MFA in Painting and Drawing (2025) from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she has also taught painting.

Her work has been exhibited at Andrew Rafacz Gallery (Chicago), Nguyen Wahed Gallery (New York), Bonian Space (Beijing), Riverside Arts Center (Chicago), Patient Info Gallery (Chicago), Unveil Gallery (Irvine), Washington Studio School Gallery (Washington, DC), Art Clvb (Detroit), and 4C Gallery (Los Angeles). In 2022, she presented her first solo exhibition, Lowland Delusion, at Août Gallery in Beirut, Lebanon.