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Sylvia Ji was born in 1982, and raised by artistic parents in San Francisco, California. Her interest in art was implanted at a very young age, when she would look through her mother’s sketchbooks and watch her father paint. Ji graduated with distinction in 2005 from the Academy of Art University of San Francisco with a Bachelors degree in traditional illustration, and had her first ambitious and successful solo show while still in her last year of school. After graduating, she relocated to Los Angeles in 2005, where she currently resides.
Ji’s work encapsulates an alluring beauty that is both cutting-edge and a nod to time-honoured techniques. Her paintings are symbolic reflections of herself, portraits of people she knows, or nameless faces set in a landscape of fleeting and decaying beauty. Possessing an artistic voice as unique as the times we live in, Ji is at once contemplative, spiritual, enigmatic, and yet whimsically funny.
Above all else, it is perhaps beauty that emerges as Ji’s defining characteristic, and her art reflects this: an extension of herself; a passionate appreciation of simple aesthetic pleasure fused with intimately complex subject matter. Ji’s work has been featured in numerous gallery and museum exhibitions and art fairs worldwide. She has been profiled in many publications, too, including Juxtapoz, Trace, and Mesh Magazine, and her painting Dona Dolorosa graced the cover of the LA Weekly for a feature story about Juxtapoz magazine’s Laguna Museum retrospective, “In The Land of Retinal Delights”.
Sylvia Ji was born in 1982, and raised by artistic parents in San Francisco, California. Her interest in art was implanted at a very young age, when she would look through her mother’s sketchbooks and watch her father paint. Ji graduated with distinction in 2005 from the Academy of Art University of San Francisco with a Bachelors degree in traditional illustration, and had her first ambitious and successful solo show while still in her last year of school. After graduating, she relocated to Los Angeles in 2005, where she currently resides.
Ji’s work encapsulates an alluring beauty that is both cutting-edge and a nod to time-honoured techniques. Her paintings are symbolic reflections of herself, portraits of people she knows, or nameless faces set in a landscape of fleeting and decaying beauty. Possessing an artistic voice as unique as the times we live in, Ji is at once contemplative, spiritual, enigmatic, and yet whimsically funny.
Above all else, it is perhaps beauty that emerges as Ji’s defining characteristic, and her art reflects this: an extension of herself; a passionate appreciation of simple aesthetic pleasure fused with intimately complex subject matter. Ji’s work has been featured in numerous gallery and museum exhibitions and art fairs worldwide. She has been profiled in many publications, too, including Juxtapoz, Trace, and Mesh Magazine, and her painting Dona Dolorosa graced the cover of the LA Weekly for a feature story about Juxtapoz magazine’s Laguna Museum retrospective, “In The Land of Retinal Delights”.
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