Xiaohan Jiang (b. 1998, Hebei, China) is a painter and poet based in Chicago. She received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2022 and completed her MFA in Painting and Drawing at SAIC in 2025, where she currently teaches painting.
Her practice centers on painting as a process of layering, using landscape and the horizontal picture plane as structural spaces where memory, poetry, and lived experience intersect. Through layering terrains—both familiar and unfamiliar—she explores the search for a sense of place and belonging. Working with materials such as jute, velvet, and wood, Jiang builds tactile surfaces that absorb and transform the image over time. Her paintings remain open between narrative and perception, unfolding gradually through shifts in light, spatial tension, and material presence.
Her work has been exhibited across the United States and internationally, including Nguyen Wahed Gallery (New York), Bonian Space (Beijing), Riverside Art Center (Chicago), Patient Info Gallery (Chicago), Unveil Gallery (Irvine), Washington Studio School Gallery (Washington, DC), Art Clvb (Detroit), and 4C Gallery (Los Angeles). In 2022, she held her first solo exhibition, Lowland Delusion, at Août Gallery in Beirut, Lebanon.
