Jennifer Wen Ma She is a multidisciplinary artist born in Beijing and based in New York. Her work moves between installation, sculpture, drawing, video, and performance, exploring themes such as identity, nature, collectivity, and spirituality through a poetic and innovative visual language.
In 2005, Jennifer Wen Ma collaborated with Cai Guo-Qiang on the occasion of Art to Art X, showcasing the Aeolian Garden at the museum UMoCA from Colle di Val d’Elsa. This project, overseen by the Arte Continua Association, featured the participation of internationally renowned artists, celebrating the dialogue between contemporary art and the local context.
Jennifer Wen Ma has exhibited her work in numerous international contexts, including the Venice Biennale, and continues to distinguish herself through her ability to merge tradition and modernity in pieces that engage and move audiences.
Jennifer Wen Ma (1973, Beijing, China) is a visual artist who moved to the United States in 1986, obtaining her Master of Fine Arts in 1999 from the Pratt Institute in New York. She lives and works between New York and Beijing. Ma's interdisciplinary practice combines diverse media, including installations, drawing, video, public art, design, performance, and theatre. Her works unite unexpected elements in poetic and touching compositions.
His projects include collaborations with prominent institutions such as the New Britain Museum of American Art (2021), the Musée de l’Hospice Comtesse in Lille (2021), the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York (2017), the Cass Sculpture Foundation (2016), and Qatar Museums (2016). He has also presented the installation artwork Paradise Interrupted prestigious festivals such as the Spoleto USA Festival, Lincoln Center Festival, and Singapore International Festival of the Arts, with a preview at the Temple of Dendur at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
In 2005, on the occasion of Art to Art X, Jennifer Wen Ma created the public installation Aeolian Garden in the town of Colle di Val d’Elsa, Italy, an innovative project that brought its poetic language into dialogue with the local context.
Among the accolades received, in 2019 she was awarded the Anonymous Was a Woman Award and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for the exhibition Cry Joy Park–––Gardens of Dark and Light. He also won an Emmy in 2008 for his work as part of the creative team and lead visual effects designer for the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics.
She teaches on the Master of Fine Arts program at the School of Visual Arts in New York, and has lectured at prestigious institutions including Rhode Island School of Design, Cornell University, Yale University, Columbia University, and The Courtauld Institute of Art.