Jia
Aili

Post-apocalyptic visions of a dystopian world, Jia Aili's paintings waver between the perception of humanity doomed to self-destruction and an exploration of awareness.

Born 1979 in Dandong, China, Jia Aili lives and works in Beijing. In 2004 he graduated from the Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts’ New Representationalism Studio, teaching there from 2005 to 2007 before focusing entirely on his career as a painter. His melancholy-tinged large formats in oil point to the deadly acceleration of urban flows and the loneliness of human beings. They are spaces for reflection on social problems, especially current living conditions in China.

Jia Aili's work was presented for the first time by the Pinault Collection in 2015 at the “Jia Aili” show at the Teatrino in Venice.