Jia Sung

Jia Sung is a Singaporean Chinese artist and educator whose practice spans painting, artist books, textiles, and printmaking. Drawing on motifs from Chinese mythology and Buddhist iconography, Sung uses the familiar visual language of folklore to examine and subvert conventional archetypes of femininity, queerness and otherness. Her work has appeared in publications including The Paris Review, Emergence Magazine, Astra Magazine, the Poetry Foundation, and the Asian American Writers Workshop, and collected by institutions including the Met, SFMOMA, and the Special Collections at Yale, SAIC, and RISD. She is the author of Trickster's Journey, a tarot deck and guidebook, published with Running Press in 2023. She has taught workshops with organizations like the Hudson River Museum, MoMA, and NYU. She was a 2018-2019 Smack Mellon Studio Artist and Van Lier Fellow, and is currently an adjunct professor at RISD, where she received her BFA in 2015.