Jean Huang (b. 1994) is a Canadian artist living and working in London, UK. Her practice is rooted in painting and spans poetry, photography, and performance. She holds an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art.
My practice is a form of embodied and participatory ecology: I explore the intrinsic relationships between living organisms, the weather, and the physical environment by inviting Nature to actively collaborate in my process. Each site-specific painting begins as an unstretched canvas carried on a hike, as a ritual of belonging to the land.
I map the landscape through frottage, archiving textures and stories from the soil, water, trees, and rocks – the land’s historians. I confront historical narratives such as ‘the landscape as sublime’ and ‘conquering nature’ by engaging with the land through empathy, care, and play. Found synthetic materials from the site are incorporated as a truthful response to anthropogenic impacts on the land. The canvas records both environmental conditions and my lived experience to form an ecosystem.
The landscape is also a portal to my internal geographies: familiar topographies transport me to past habitats and histories, the weather reveals my emotional terrain, and the seasons mirror the cyclical rhythms within. The landscape becomes a self portrait where I search for my sense of place.
Education
2026 Professional Development Programme, NewPlatform.Art, London, UK
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
2026
Painting: A Changed Environment, Messums West, Tisbury, UK
Clyde & Co and Macfarlanes Art Prize, NewPlatform.Art, London, UK
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