Jia Sung

Jia Sung (b. 1992, Minneapolis, USA) is a Singaporean Chinese artist and educator whose practice spans painting, artist books, textiles, printmaking, writing, and translation. Drawing on motifs from Chinese mythology and Buddhist iconography, Sung employs the familiar visual language of folklore to examine and subvert conventional archetypes of femininity, queerness, and otherness.

Her work has been exhibited at institutions such as Wave Hill, the Hessel Museum, EFA Project Space, and has appeared in publications including The Paris Review, The New Yorker, and The Poetry Foundation. Her work is held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, SFMOMA, and the Special Collections at Yale, RISD, and SAIC.

Sung is the author of Trickster’s Journey, a Chinese mythological tarot deck and guidebook, published with Running Press in 2023. She has also taught with organizations like the Metropolitan Museum, MoMA, NYU, and RISD.