Xiaohan Jiang (b. 1998, Hebei, China) is a painter based in Chicago. She received a BFA in Studio (2022) and an MFA in Painting and Drawing (2025), both from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she has also taught painting.
Jiang’s paintings reconstruct landscapes shaped by memory and migration. Rooted in her childhood in rural northern China, her work returns to dry fields, low hills, shifting light, and distant horizons, allowing familiar and unfamiliar terrains to overlap between recollection and invention. Poetry informs the associative structure of her images, while the horizontal picture plane brings fragments of different places and moments into a shared field. Working in oil on jute, velvet, and wood, she builds layered surfaces in which forms emerge, disappear, and return.
Her work has been exhibited at Nguyen Wahed Gallery (New York), Bonian Space (Beijing), Riverside Arts 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 presented her first solo exhibition, Lowland Delusion, at Août Gallery in Beirut, Lebanon.
