Jennifer Wen Ma (1973, Beijing, China) is a visual artist who moved to the United States in 1986 and received her Master of Fine Art degree in 1999 from Pratt Institute, New York. Ma works and lives between New York and Beijing. Ma’s interdisciplinary practice bridges varied media such as installation, drawing, video, public art, oral history, design, performance, and theatre; often bringing together unlikely elements in a single piece, creating sensitive, poetic, and poignant works.
Projects include: National Art Center Tokyo, 2024; Expo Chicago, 2023; Fosun Foundation, Shanghai, 2022; New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut, 2021; Musée de l’Hospice Comtesse, Lille, France, 2021; Art Macao Festival, Macau, 2019; Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston, 2019; Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, 2018; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2017; Cass Sculpture Foundation, 2016; Qatar Museums, 2016; Temple of Dendur, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2015; Flux Projects, Atlanta; Market Square Public Art Program, Pittsburgh, 2015; 5×5 Nonument Park, Washington DC, 2014; Vancouver Art Gallery, 2014; Performa 13, New York, 2013; Ullens Center For Contemporary Art, Beijing, 2012; Eslite Gallery, Taipei, 2011; Biennale of Sydney, 2010; The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, 2009; Echigo-Tsumari Triennial, Japan, 2009; Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain, 2009; and the National Art Museum of China, Beijing, 2008, Singapore Biennale, 2006, among others.
Public art installations include Wings of Everchange, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs Percent for Art Program, 2027; A Landscape of Metamorphosis, MGM Cotai, Macau, 2022; Nature and Man in Rhapsody of Light at the Water Cube, The National Aquatic Center, Beijing, 2013; In-Between World—Daydream Nation, Digital Beijing Building, Beijing, 2008; Aeolian Garden, city of Colle di Val d’Elsa, Italy, 2005, among others.
In 2019, Ma was a recipient of the Anonymous Was a Woman Award and grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2015, she conceived, visually designed, and directed installation opera Paradise Interrupted, performed around the world, including Lincoln Center Festival, Spoleto Festival USA, Singapore International Festival of Arts, National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts, National Theatre and Concert Hall, Taipei, MGM Cotai Theatre, Macau, among others. The opera won the prestigious international award from Music Theatre Now in 2016. In 2008, Ma was on the core creative team for the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics and received an Emmy Award for its US broadcast.
Ma teaches in the Master of Fine Arts program at the School of Visual Arts, New York, and guest lectured at many institutions including Skidmore College, Rhode Island School of Design, Cornell University, Michigan State University, Yale University, Columbia University, New York University, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China Academy of Art, among others.
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