Jenie Gao
Jenie Gao (they/she) is a multidisciplinary artist specializing in printmaking, installation and public art, civic practice, and community storytelling. They have run an anti-gentrification arts business since 2014, consulting for cultural organizations and the public sector on equity and ethics.
Born in 1988 in Kansas City, Missouri, Jenie is a second generation Taiwanese-Chinese American from a working class immigrant family, which informs their work on issues of artists’ labor, cultural power, and resilient community ecosystems.
Jenie has a BFA in Printmaking/Drawing from Washington University in St. Louis and an MFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design. Their work is in over 40 institutional collections including Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Library of Congress, Cornell University, and Stanford University. Their recent exhibitions include Museum of Wisconsin Art, South Bend Museum of Art, Munson Museum of Art, and grunt gallery.
