Artist Biography

Jennifer Wen Ma is a visual artist whose interdisciplinary practice bridges varied media such as installation, painting and drawing, video, design, performance, theatre and public art; often bringing together unlikely elements in a single piece, creating sensitive, poetic and poignant works. She works in New York and Beijing.

Ma has exhibited with Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Cass Sculpture Foundation, Qatar Museums, Vancouver Art Gallery, Ullens Center For Contemporary Art, The Phillips Collection, Guggenheim Bilbao, National Art Museum of China, Performa 13, Sydney Biennale, Echigo-Tsumari Triennial, Singapore Biennale, among others.

In 2015, Ma visually designed and directed installation opera Paradise Interrupted, previewed at the Temple of Dendur, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and performed at Lincoln Center Festival, Singapore International Festival of Arts, 2016, and Spoleto Festival USA, 2015. The opera is now touring internationally. In 2008, Ma was a core creative-team-member of the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony, and received an Emmy award for its US broadcast.