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SIJIA MA

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Sijia Ma (born 2001 in Shenyang, China)

Lives and studies in MA and Shanghai

Education

2019-2023 B.A. in Studio Arts and Quantitative Economics, Smith College, MA, USA

2020 Summer Visiting Student, Graphic Design, Yale University, CT, USA

2020 Five College Exchange Student, Photography, Amherst College, MA, USA

Selected Solo Exhibitions

A Hundred Stories, Ildiko Butler Gallery, Fordham University, curated by Stephan Apicella Hitchcock, New York, US, July 2021

Scan It, Godine Family Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, US, May 2021

Selected Group Exhibitions

Mesnographies Photo Festival, Mairie, France, Sep – Oct 2022

Wort im Bild Photobook Winner Exhibition, Robert Musil Institute/ Robert Musil Literature Museum, Klagenfurt, Austria, June 2022

Filter Photo Festival Contest 2022, Filter Space, Chicago, Illinois, US, April 2022

I Matter, Wells Maltings, The Handa Gallery, Norfolk, England, Mar 2022

Shahjalal University Photographers’ Association Inquest Insight 6, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh, India, Feb – Mar 2022

AIS 2022 Women Behind The Lens: International Female Photography Exhibition, Beta X, Leichester, United Kingdom, Feb 2022

Eighteenth Annual College Show, ArtsWorcester, Feb 2022

The Lighter Side, Woody Gaddis Gallery, University of Central Oklahoma, Feb 2022

American Photography 37 Annual Book Award Winners Exhibition, The Party, Angel Orensanz Foundation, New York, Nov 2021

Lensculture, Editors selection, Art Photography Awards 2022 Competition Gallery, Nov 2021

I Matter, Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery, curated by Olu Taiwo, Peterborough, England, 16 Sep 2021 – 28 Nov 2021

Noorderlicht International Photo Festival: The Makeable Mind, Kunstpunt Groningen, Friesland, Netherland, Aug 2021

Fourth Chania International Photography Festival, The Grand Arsenal of Chania, Crete, Greece, June 2021

Contemporary Practice, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, US, Mar 2021

Mobile Photography, New Era Research Institute of Photography, Beijing, China, Feb 2021

Public Space Through the Reflections of Lens, Harvard ChinaGSD, Dec 2020

Moments of Color, Blank Wall Gallery, Athens, Greece, Dec 2020

Diaries, Millepiani Gallery, Rome, Italy, Dec 2020

International Portrait Exhibitions, Glasgow Gallery of Photography, Glasgow, Scotland, Nov 2020

International Center of Photography, #ICP Concerned: Global Images for Global Crisis, New York, Oct 2020

Selected Publications, Reviews, and Press

Med in Bed, Sotheby Institute of Art, Emerging Artist Feature, May 2022

Broad Magazine, A Hundred Stories, Mar 2022

Leland Quarterly, Standford University, winter issue 2022

Shenandoah, Washington and Lee University, 72 issues, upcoming

Arts Management Magazine, AMM NextGen, Mar 2022

Zeniada Magazine, John Hopkins University, winter 2022 issue, Jan 2022

Existere Journal of Arts & Literature, York University, Vol 41. Issue 1, Canada, Jan 2022

American Photography 37 Annual Award Book, Scan It, Nov 2021

Der Greif, Online Guest Room, Images for the Information Age, curated by Willy Ndatira, Germany, Nov 2021

Burn Magazine, A Hundred Stories, Photography Essay, Oct 2021

Paris Lit Up Magazine, A Hundred Stories, 9th annual printed issue, Paris, France, Oct 2021

International Center of Photography, #ICPConcerned: Global Images for Global Crisis, G Editions, Oct 2021

Bayou Magazine, University of New Orleans, Grief, Issue 73, work featured as cover, Aug 2021

Asterisk* Journal of Art and Art History, Yale University, June 2021

Stillpoint Magazine, One Hundred Stories, May 2021

Glass Mountain Magazine, University of Houston, Grief, printed Issue 26, May 2021

Sine Theta Magazine, High Noon, Issue 19, work featured as cover, May 2021

L Oeil de la Photographie, Scan It, April 2021

F-Stop Magazine, Self Portrait, Issue 106, April 2021

ARTDOC Photography Magazine, Empty Streets, Feb 2021

Lenscratch, Photography, Covid Projects: Covid Pictures, Feb 2021

Nashville Review, Vanderbilt University, Featured Artist, “Tale of Three Lands,” Dec 2020

Orenda Arts Journal, vol 2. work featured as cover, Photography, Dec 2020

Blank Wall Gallery, Photography, Exhibition Catalogue, Moments of Color 2020, vol.1&2, Dec 2020

Voices and Visions Journal, Rambling, Rise, Dec 2020 

Selected Awards

International Photography Award, Winner in Fine Art, Second Place, 2022

The Enid Silver Winslow ’54 Prize in Art History, 2022

8th Fine Art Photography Awards Nominee in Fine Art, 2022

Wort im Bild Photobook Winner, Sixth Place, 2022

American Photography 37 Selected Winner, 2021

SIGMA 60th Anniversary Scholarship Contest, Honorable mention, 2022

Shahjalal University Photographers’ Association, Inquest Insight 6, Photo Story Winner, 2022

AIS 2022: Women Behind the Lense, curated by Sebah Chaudhry, Finalist, 2021

So to Speak Journal 2022 Contest in Visual Art, juried by Ghislaine Fremaux, Second Place, 2021

Selected Interview

“A Hundred Stories” Captured with A Flash With Sijia Ma, Kamena Magazine, University of Warwick, United Kingdom, Feb 2022

Litang, Artist Interview, Tell A Hundred Stories, June 2021

Selected Conference Paper

“Reimagining Coins: Money Images on Money Trees in the Eastern Han Dynasty,” the SUNY New Paltz Undergraduate Art History Symposium, April 2022

Selected Work Experiences

Strategy Intern, Leo Burnett, Detroit, Michigan, June 2022 – Aug 2022

Brand Marketing Intern, Universal Studio, Beijing, May 2021 – Aug 2021

Global Event Intern, Caixin Global, Shanghai, Apr 2021 – May 2021

Design Intern, K11 Concepts Limited, Shanghai, Nov 2020 – Jan 2021

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