Jingtian Zong is an artist-researcher who roams the wormholes of memory, displacement, censorship, and invisible bodies.
Jingtian graduated from NYU Shanghai with a BS in Interactive Media Arts (IMA) in 2019, reflecting on![]()
and ![]()
. Awarded an IMA fellowship, they continued their residency in Shanghai, during which they ![]()
erased faces in socialist China, ![]()
on unoccupied post-pandemic streets, ![]()
signs of micropolitics in local neighborhoods, and ![]()
with academic red tape.
In the summer of 2022, Jingtian relocated to California for her MFA studies in Environmental Art and Social Practice (EASP) at UC Santa Cruz. As part of their migration, they lived and investigated![]()
in the American highway dream.
Lately, Jingtian is teaching and researching and speculative histories.![]()
Jingtian graduated from NYU Shanghai with a BS in Interactive Media Arts (IMA) in 2019, reflecting on
In the summer of 2022, Jingtian relocated to California for her MFA studies in Environmental Art and Social Practice (EASP) at UC Santa Cruz. As part of their migration, they lived and investigated
Lately, Jingtian is teaching and researching and speculative histories.
CV ༊*·˚
Born in Hefei, Anhui, China. Currently based in San Francisco Bay Area, California.
+ EDUCATION
University of California Santa Cruz (MFA Candidate Environmental Art and Social Practice) 2022-2024
New York University Shanghai (BS Honors Interactive Media Arts) 2015-2019
New York University (study abroad) 2017-2018
University College of London (summer programme) 2017
+ PEDAGOGICAL PRACTICE
Teaching Assistant, UC Santa Cruz, CA 2022.09-2024.06
Science Internship Program Mentor (project), UC Santa Cruz, CA summer 2023 & 2024
Interactive Media Arts Fellow, NYU Shanghai, SH 2019.09-2022.08
Transmedia Art Instructor, Oriental Danology Institute, SH 2019.07-2020.09
Winter Teaching Camp Mentor, PEER China, Hunan 2015.12-2016.01
+ CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE
Research Assistant & Gallery Host, Institute of Contemporary Arts at NYU Shanghai, SH 2022.02-2022.07
Curatorial Intern (project), Himalayas Museum, SH 2016.12-2017.02
+ SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024 Search Party, Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery, Santa Cruz
2023 Futurescapes, Institute of the Arts and Sciences, Santa Cruz
2022 Stepping Through, Gravy Gallery, Santa Cruz
2021 Identity Removing System, Hefei Museum of Contemporary Art, Hefei
2021 Beacon of Signs, Free-Down Space, Shanghai
2021 Unlinked, NYU Shanghai, Shanghai
2020 Console.log, West Bund Art Center, Shanghai
2020 Periferias Festival, Marvão, Portugal
2019 IMA Capstone Show, NYU Shanghai, Shanghai
2019 CINEMQ Screening No.28: KIN, Shanghai
2019 Critica Festival, Shanghai
+ CONFERENCE & WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS
Future Nostalgia and Present Utopia: Reimaging Futurism in Film and New Media. University of Pittsburgh, September 23–24, 2023.
Decolonizing Digital Archives. Critical Media Lab, Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW, August 21-25, 2023.
+ PUBLICATIONS
MsGlitch403. Co-created with Irayna Lin, Susan Chen, Lydia Pochueva, and Joey Ye. Cyberfeminism Index, 2023.
Project NoCode. Things will Work Out Tomorrow: A Growing Collection of StepBackForward Methodologies. Hong Kong: StepBackForward.art, June 2021.
Project NoCode. StepBackForward, Hong Kong, 2021.
+ FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS & AWARDS
2023 Create Grant, Arts Council Santa Cruz County
2023 Arts Dean’s Fund for Equity and Excellence, UC Santa Cruz
2022 Coha-Gunderson Prize in Speculative Futures, UC Santa Cruz
2022 Arts Research Institute Graduate Fellowship, UC Santa Cruz
2019 Latin Honors: Magna Cum Laude, NYU Shanghai
2019 Founders’ Day Award, NYU
2019 Audience’s Choice Award, NYU Shanghai Undergraduate Research Symposium
2017 - 2018 Dean’s Undergraduate Research Fund Scholarship, NYU Shanghai
2015 - 2018 Dean’s List for the Academic Year, NYU Shanghai
2015 Freshman Merit Scholarship, NYU Shanghai
+ OTHER EXPERIENCE
2021 Peer Reviewer, NIME Conference, Shanghai
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