Jiayi Liang is a Chinese lens-based artist and filmmaker working across constructed photography, collage installation, animation, and experimental moving image. Rooted in diasporic experience, her practice examines migration, grief, colonial memory, and the representation of East Asian women through fragmented photographic environments and hybrid image-making processes. Drawing from family archives, Western landscape painting, performance, and paper-based reconstruction, Liang uses cutting, repetition, and physical labor as both visual strategies and methods of processing memory, distance, and inherited histories.

Her recent work explores how images construct systems of visibility, identity, and belonging. Through staged installations, tactile animation, and speculative narratives, she investigates the entanglement of landscape, migration, gendered labor, and intergenerational memory within East Asian diasporic experience. Influenced by Homi K. Bhabha’s concept of the Third Space, her work creates unstable visual environments where personal and collective histories can be dismantled, reconstructed, and continuously renegotiated.

Liang received her MFA in Photography + Film from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2026, an MA from University of Iowa in 2024, and a BFA in Studio Art from University of New Mexico in 2020. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the Institute for Contemporary Art, Candela Books + Gallery, Public Space One, and the International Center of Photography. She has also presented her research and practice at the Society for Photographic Education conference.