Jenie Gao
(they/she) Artist-small business owner. Consultant on equity + ethics. Executive Director at Centre A. Anti-gentrification. Pro-fair pay + labour rights. Salty. 🍉🕊️
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- Reposted by Jenie Gaoi’m somewhere btwn “well that’s not surprising” & “this is just horrifying & am confused why some of these revelations aren’t a bigger deal in mainstream media & everyday society” about the epstein file dumps & also can't imagine what it’s like being a survivor & having your unredacted name included
- Two sisters narrate The Princess of Thornwood. The elder struggles to care for her now nonverbal sister after an accident. The younger sister, in a concurrent magical realm, seeks aid for their family. Compelling, moving, albeit predictable, but enjoyable. Love the #disability representation. 💙📚🪐
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- I have an upcoming solo show, The Deer Garden, at Pratt Munson Gallery at Munson Museum in upstate New York. Come say hello! Opening reception: Feb 6, 3 to 5 pm. Exhibition dates: Feb 6 - Mar 6, 2026. #contemporaryprintmaking #printsky #newenglandart #newyorkgalleries
- Thank you to Robert Kuang of Stir Magazine for writing beautifully about my exhibition, Where Mountain Cats Live. At grunt gallery in #vancouverbc until Jan 17, 2026. Read the article: www.createastir.ca/articles/gru... #contemporaryart #printmaking #woodcut
- My solo exhibition, Where Mountain Cats Live, is on view at grunt gallery thru Jan 17th in #vancouverbc. More info: grunt.ca/exhibitions/... #contemporaryart #printmaking #printsky #woodcut #installationart #taiwaneseamericanart #chineseamericanart #asiandiaspora
- Thank you for attending my opening! 💚💜 My solo show, Where Mountain Cats Live, is up until Jan 17 at grunt gallery in Vancouver.
- Press coverage for the Guiding Ethos exhibition that I recently curated at Trout Museum of Art. On view Oct 11, 2025 to January 18, 2026. Trout Museum's 'Guiding Ethos' is Rooted in Collectivism, Cultural Stewardships and Resistance: shepherdexpress.com/culture/visu... #contemporaryart
- My recent solo show, The Integrity of a Story, at Alberta Printmakers Society. Much of this new work I made during my art residency at Women's Studio Workshop. 💗 Thank you to the A/P team and Calgary community for being gracious hosts. 💚 #printmaker #woodcut #contemporaryart #printsky 💜🖼️ 🐡
- Current reading: Against the Loveless World, by Palestinian American author and activist Susan Abulhawa. 💙📚 #palestinianwriters #decolonizeyourbookshelf
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- As a millennial, I recall a simpler time on the Internet when pedophiles had usernames like PrincessPeach1982 and Californiagurl69xo. Today pedophiles have usernames like POTUS. 😞 #potus
- One of my famous installation guides. I do my best to be kind to the curators and installation teams that handle my work. For my upcoming solo show, The Integrity of a Story, at Alberta Printmakers, opening Sept 26 in Calgary, AB. #contemporaryprintmaking #printmakers #printsky #installationart
- Wall color for my upcoming solo show. #contemporaryprintmaking
- Wall color for my upcoming solo show. #contemporaryprintmaking
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- My other kitty, Marigold, and yet another graphic novel about cats. Cats of the Louvre, by Taiyo Matsumoto. #graphicnovel #comics #cats 💙📚
- My cat, Mintaka, plus literature. Junji Ito's Cat Diary: Yon & Mu. 💙📚 #catlovers #blackcats #booksky #graphicnovels #comics 🐈⬛
- Reposted by Jenie GaoI know a lot of you have already heard or read about BDS Movement's call against Microsoft, and felt weird and bad about it all, but decided to move forward as normal because of some degree of ambiguity. "What service is Microsoft providing?" Here it is, clear as day. A direct line to death.
- Decided to scare myself by reading Octavia Butler's prescient novel, Parable of the Sower. Written in 1993. Set in 2024-2027. The book follows a disabled Black youth who devises survival strategies amidst high unemployment, addiction, militarized states, privatized cities, and religious zealots.🪐📚💙
- A stranger took a candid photo of me making a #watercolor #painting from a viewpoint at Cypress Mountain. 💜🖼️🐡 #sketchbook #enpleinair #mountains
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- My cat, Mintaka, plus literature. Junji Ito's Cat Diary: Yon & Mu. 💙📚 #catlovers #blackcats #booksky #graphicnovels #comics 🐈⬛
- I was fortunate to have my work in Go West, a group exhibition showcasing Asian American artists in Boulder, CO this year. Thank you to Dairy Arts Center, curator Stella Witcher, and jurors Rajiv Menon + Roseline Nevling for including me in this showcase. #contemporaryart #printmaking #woodcut
- Reposted by Jenie GaoStickers by Antony Ho. linktr.ee/antonyho #JapanExpo2025
- We'll Prescribe You a Cat: A Novel. Chill read at an easygoing, slightly off beat pace with very mild twists as the plot reveals itself. Almost as if an aloof cat wrote it lol. It won't make my favorites list but I finished it quickly and enjoyed it! 💙📚 #cats #catlovers
- The Deer Garden, #woodcut completed during my Women’s Studio Workshop residency. The woodblock will be embedded in a custom-built TV tray table to resemble inlaid jade, in an exploration of what it means to steward my mother’s stories and home. #printsky #contemporaryprint #asianamericanartists 🐡
- New York book haul. Book author details and the bookstores I visited in alt text. 💡📚💙 #writersofcolor #palestinianauthors #feministwriting #readdiversebooks
- Just finished The Emperor of Gladness. Ocean Vuong has really nailed the art of writing melancholy + queer + small town coming-of-age stories focused on Vietnamese American protagonists in yet another heart wrencher. 💙📚
- Hands at work. Images of my newest #woodcut and #artistsbook in progress at my Women’s Studio Workshop residency. It feels amazing to be on the Vandercook again. Photo credit Natalie Thomas. #letterpress #photopolymer #reliefprint #contemporaryprintmaking #bookarts #aapiart 💜🖼️🐡
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- Formosan Sika Deer keep their spots long after they grow into adulthood. They are indigenous to Taiwan, and I've included them in my newest #woodcut and #printmaking projects as a part of familial storytelling. #printpromptmonday #growth #taiwaneseamericanartist 💜🖼️
- About halfway thru my 6-week residency at Women's Studio Workshop in Kingston, NY. It's so lovely here and I'm cherishing the focused studio time. Excited to share new works soon. For now, here's a sneak peek of a couple things in development. #printmaker #contemporaryprint #woodcut #hudsonvalley
- One pleasant surprise when I joined Bluesky earlier this year is how robust and active the #printmaking community is here. Follow and share your work with over 100+ folks on the #Printsky feed! 🌟 It searches for a variety of print-related terms and filters out AI content.
- About halfway thru my 6-week residency at Women's Studio Workshop in Kingston, NY. It's so lovely here and I'm cherishing the focused studio time. Excited to share new works soon. For now, here's a sneak peek of a couple things in development. #printmaker #contemporaryprint #woodcut #hudsonvalley
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- #printpromptmonday #process Photo of me pulling one of my large-scale woodcuts off the press. Work title: Pigeon, half of a diptych with Fènghuáng. The works resemble hand-carved jade pendants. #printsky #contemporaryprint #woodcut #reliefprint 💜🖼️
