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Jenie Gao
@jeniegao.bsky.social
(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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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 💜🖼️ 🐡
November 17, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Current reading: Against the Loveless World, by Palestinian American author and activist Susan Abulhawa. 💙📚 #palestinianwriters #decolonizeyourbookshelf
October 6, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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
September 16, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Wall color for my upcoming solo show. #contemporaryprintmaking
September 15, 2025 at 5:38 PM
My other kitty, Marigold, and yet another graphic novel about cats.

Cats of the Louvre, by Taiyo Matsumoto.

#graphicnovel #comics #cats 💙📚
August 8, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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.🪐📚💙
August 4, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Lil #watercolor sketch of Cypress Mountain viewpoint of Gambier and Bowen Islands.

This hike is located in West Vancouver, BC, on the lands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples.

#enpleinair #mstland #pacificnorthwest #vancouverbc
July 28, 2025 at 8:05 PM
A stranger took a candid photo of me making a #watercolor #painting from a viewpoint at Cypress Mountain.

💜🖼️🐡 #sketchbook #enpleinair #mountains
July 28, 2025 at 8:05 PM
My cat, Mintaka, plus literature.

Junji Ito's Cat Diary: Yon & Mu.

💙📚 #catlovers #blackcats #booksky #graphicnovels #comics 🐈‍⬛
July 28, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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
July 15, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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
June 30, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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 🐡
June 26, 2025 at 10:23 PM
New York book haul.

Book author details and the bookstores I visited in alt text.

💡📚💙

#writersofcolor #palestinianauthors #feministwriting #readdiversebooks
June 25, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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.

💙📚
June 22, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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 💜🖼️🐡
June 6, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Clouded Leopard #woodcut close-up. Almost ready to print!

#printsky #contemporaryprint 💜🖼️
June 1, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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 💜🖼️
May 29, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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
May 28, 2025 at 1:34 PM
#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 💜🖼️
May 13, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Delighted to be in the exhibition "Go West" at Dairy Arts Center showcasing #AsianAmericanArtists whose creative stories reflect the intersection of cultural heritage, innovation, and the pursuit of new beginnings in the American West.

Learn more thedairy.org/go-west-exhi...

#boulderco #printmaker
May 9, 2025 at 2:46 PM
I've arrived at Women's Studio Workshop for an art residency. 🙂

#kingstonny #hudsonvalley #artresidency #printmakers #printsky #artistsbooks
May 7, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Woman with Roots, #silkscreen on paper.

From my print series on relationships and reciprocity.

#printpromptmonday #portrait #serigraphy #screenprint #contemporaryprint #printsky #blackandwhite
May 1, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Life is busy and stressful but the reading is good.

Sat in the community garden on this gorgeous spring day while reading Ninetails: Nine Tales by Sally Wen Mao.

Thrilling, magical, contemporary short stories about fox spirits.

💙📚🪐 #fantasyfiction #magicrealism
April 26, 2025 at 11:03 PM
“The Golden Cage” is an #artistsbook about a homing pigeon who leaves behind what he knows in search of greater purpose. He becomes a messenger in the human world—delivering empty messages for heads divided from the people they fail to lead.

#woodcut #contemporaryprint 🐡💜🖼️
#printpromptmonday #earth
April 25, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Very much enjoying New Suns, a collection of #speculativefiction short stories by BIPOC authors.

Edited by Nisi Shawl.
Introduction by Levar Burton.
Including Stories by Indrapramit Das, E Lily Yu, Rebecca Roanhorse, Anil Melon, Jaymee Goh, and many others.

💙📚🪐🐡 #scifi #writersofcolor
April 22, 2025 at 6:26 PM