Jenie Gao Studio | Biography

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 equitable best practices, community engagement ethics, and organizational transformation.

Jenie is a second generation Taiwanese-Chinese American and a descendant of working class immigrants. Their research and advocacy work focuses on issues of artists’ labor, cultural power, and resilient community ecosystems.

Jenie has a BFA in Printmaking/Drawing from Washington University in St. Louis (2010) and an MFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design (2023). 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, Pratt Munson Gallery at Munson Museum, grunt gallery, and CICA Vancouver. As a guest curator, Jenie curated Guiding Ethos, an inaugural exhibition for the Trout Museum of Art’s new building in 2025-2026, featuring 25 international artists.

Jenie’s work has been published on PBS, Stir Magazine, and Fête Chinoise. Their art residencies include Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity in Banff, Alberta; Women’s Studio Workshop in Kingston, New York; Art in the Park with Vancouver Board of Parks & Recreation: Decolonization, Art, & Culture; Ma’s House & BIPOC Art Studio on the Shinnecock Indian Reservation in Southampton, New York; Iowa Lakeside Laboratory in Okoboji, Iowa; Proyecto’ace in Buenos Aires, Argentina; Museo de Arte Moderno in Chile; and more. They are a TEDx Madison speaker and gave a talk entitled The Power and Purpose of Creativity.

Jenie is the recently appointed Executive Director of Centre A: Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art.

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