Jingze Du
Jingze Du creates paintings that are largely grey with accents of black and white. Most depict heads in various configurations. Some are slightly contorted while others are more naturalistic. They represent an oscillating position that is in between various alternatives: strength and weakness; fast and slow; masculine and feminine; validation and rejection; external and internal; conformity and independence, and above all they represent Du’s status as an immigrant, someone whose life has been neatly divided into two parts, the first half in China; the second half in Ireland.
Born 1995, Yantai, China
Lives and works in Dublin
Education
2019
MA, Royal College of Art, London
2017
BFA, National College of Art & Design, Dublin
Solo Exhibitions
2022
Steve Turner, Los Angeles (upcoming)
2021
Midnight, Steve Turner, Los Angeles
Night Shade, L21 Gallery, Palma de Mallorca
Elsewhere, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
2020
Magic Kingdom, Steve Turner, Los Angeles
In Between, Steve Turner, Los Angeles
2019
A City of Glass Crystal After Dark, Sol Art Gallery, Dublin
2016
Nostalgia, Waves, Pallas Projects/Studios, Dublin
2014
Contagious, Project Space, National College of Art & Design, Dublin
Group Exhibitions
2022
Art Brussels (with Steve Turner)
EXPO Chicago (with Steve Turner)
2021
Untitled, Miami Beach (with Steve Turner)
Our World Two, Steve Turner, Los Angeles
2019
Show 2019, Royal College of Art, London
Disruptors, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, Ireland
Art Central (with Maddox Gallery), Hong Kong
All Good Things, Bellwood and Wright Fine Art, Lancaster, England
The Hidden Dimension, Coningsby Gallery, London
College, House of Vans, London
2018
Thumbnails, Hockney Gallery, Royal College of Art, London
W.I.P. Show, Royal College of Art, London
2017
NCAD Degree Show, National College of Art & Design, Dublin
2016
Is This the Right Time? Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin
29th, Project Space, National College of Art & Design, Dublin
2015
Inside, A4 Art Project Space, Dublin
Residencies and Awards
2020
RHA Studio Programme (residency)
2017
NUI Art and Design Prize
2016
NCAD Staff Prize Nominee
2015
Canon Young Fashion Photographer of the Year Finalist
Bibliography
2020
“Interview with Jingze Du,” Saint Maison, November 21
Angelos, Ayla. “Introducing the monochromatic and spooky portraits of Chinese artist Jingze Du,” It’s Nice That, May 5
2019
Shropshire, Simek. “DU JINGZE,” Floorr Magazine, August 21
“Jingze Du: The Road, The Smell And The Moist Soil, Art Verge, July
Winter Issue 11 (editorial selection), ArtMaze Mag, January
2017
Nolan-Horan, Adam. “Creatives Catch Up – Du Jingze & Aoife Dunne,” FAC Magazine, September 15
“NUI Art and Design Prize 2017 awarded to NCAD student Jingze Du,” NUI News and Events, July 7
“An Interview With Jingze – Young Irish Based Artist, Painter, and Photographer,” H&G, May 4
2016
“In The Picture: Du Jingze, Painter,” RTÉ, October 10
Our World Two
Patrick Bayly, Siro Cugusi, Jingze Du, Jon Key, Gabby Rosenberg, David Shrobe & Shirley Villavicencio Pizango
March 13–April 14,2021
Jingze Du
NR
Displacement fuels the desire to persevere until one’s art resonates with self-identity
Matthew Burgos
Vol. 15, Spring Summer 2022
Jingze Du and Kate Klingbeil
Artnet News
Kenny Schachter Wades Through the Booze-Soaked NFT Mecca of Miami Beach—and Wishes He Could Escape to the Metaverse
Kenny Schachter
December 14, 2021
Jingze Du
It's Nice That
Introducing the monochromatic and spooky portraits of Chinese artist Jingze Du
Ayla Angelos
May 5, 2020
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EXPO CHICAGO
Jingze Du, Bianca Fields, Ania Hobson, Kate Klingbeil, David Leggett, Natalia Gonzalez Martin, Kevin McNamee-Tweed, Zachary Ochoa, Dickens Otieno, Thomias Radin, Camilo Restrepo, Gabby Rosenberg, Terron Cooper Sorrells, Brittany Tucker, Shirley Villavicencio Pizango and Yung Jake
April 7 – April 10, 2022
Untitled, Miami Beach
Pablo Barba, Drew Dodge, Jingze Du, Karolina Jablońska, Kazuhito Kawai, Jon Key, Kate Klingbeil, Paige Jiyoung Moon, Shirley Villavicencio Pizango, Kevin McNamee-Tweed
November 29–December 4, 2021