Jean Huang is a London-based Canadian artist who creates site-specific works in collaboration with nature.
Huang’s practice is an exploration of the natural world and how it in turn reflects the change of time, weather, and seasonality of her inner landscape.
Each painting begins as an unstretched canvas carried on a hike, inviting the local ecology—such as tree bark, ocean waves, rock textures, and snowmelt—to directly participate in the process. An intimate and reciprocal relationship is formed in balancing her marks with the traces left by the environment, resulting in paintings that resemble well-travelled maps embedded with stories: dirt on the edges, marked places of significance, and wrinkles from the many times they were folded and unfolded.
Painting occurs through play and physical engagement with the site: Huang’s body movements appear as gestural marks, apparent in muddy boot prints or the subtle tracing of how she lay on the painting to rest. Incorporating her full body evokes a sense of belonging and suggests that Huang is as much a part of the landscape as it is of her.
Education
2024 MA Painting, Royal College Art, London, UK
2021 Graduate Diploma in Fine Art (Distinction), Royal College of Art, London, UK
2020 Continuing Studies, Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, Canada
2018 Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
Select Exhibitions
2025
Landscape Painting Today, Messums West, Tisbury, UK
Sublimis, Marie Jose Gallery, London, UK
I am Rooted, but I Flow, The Art Office, London, UK
2024
Emerging Landscape Painting Today, Messums London, UK
Daughters for Earth, Marie Jose Gallery, London, UK
Co-Creating with Nature (SustainLab Annual Show), Royal College of Art, London, UK
Reciprocity, Royal College of Art, London, UK
MA Painting Postgraduate Show, Royal College of Art, London, UK
Talks
2025
Artist Talk, Marie Jose Gallery, London, UK
2024
Emerging Landscape Painting Today: Symposium, Messums, London, UK
Artist Talk, Marie Jose Gallery, London, UK
Artist Talk, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, UK
Artist Talk, Royal College of Art, London, UK
Curation
2024
Reciprocity, Royal College of Art, London, UK
Projects
2023
When We Were little (docu-series), Telus STORYHIVE, Vancouver, Canada
In climate change art, nature’s elements can become collaborators (essay), Georgia Straight, Vancouver, Canada
2022
Chewed Up! A Dog Art Show for Dogs, by a Dog (public art installation), Pet-A-Palooza Dog Festival, Vancouver, Canada
Handshake with Kelp (mural), Yaletown Business Improvement Association, Vancouver, Canada
2020
Time Capsule (pandemic art series), CBC Arts, Canada
We Shape Each Other and Fit Together (mural), Yaletown Business Improvement Association, Vancouver, Canada
Let’s explore
For inquiries about available work and collaborations, please email studio@jeanhuang.art or connect via the form.