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Jia Sung is an artist and educator, born in Minnesota, bred in Singapore, now based in Brooklyn.

Her paintings and artist books have been exhibited across North America, including the Knockdown Center, RISD Museum, Wave Hill, EFA Project Space, Lincoln Center, Yale University, and MOMA PS1. Her work has been published in The Paris Review, Emergence Magazine, Hyperallergic, Jacobin Magazine, and Asian American Writers Workshop, and collected by the Met, SFMOMA, and the Special Collections at Yale, SAIC, and RISD. She has taught at organizations like the AC Institute, Abrons Arts Center, Children’s Museum of the Arts, and Museum of Chinese in America. 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.

Represented by Clare Mao, Europa Content. Her first book, Trickster’s Journey, is now available for preorder.

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Clients include:

Rubin Museum
Asian American Writers Workshop
The Paris Review
Emergence Magazine
Astra Magazine
advaya
For The Wild
The Guardian
Poetry Foundation
Jacobin Magazine
TED Talks
Love + Radio