About this Event
CAMOC is pleased to host a very special artist talk with our Spotlight Artist, Jingqi Wang Steinhiser, on her exhibition Hanging Bird, Moving Castle and the art of world-building.
This artist talk will explore imagined inner worlds through painting, symbolism, and cross-cultural research. Through dreamlike houses and symbolic animals, Jingqi’s recent works investigate “home” as a psychological space shaped by memory, displacement and imagination.
This talk will also introduce The Symbolic Bestiary & Herbarium, an ongoing cross-cultural dictionary researching the symbolic meanings of animals and plants across folklore, literature, religion, cinema, and lived experience. Together, these two projects examine how storytelling, symbolism, and personal mythology can construct emotional and psychological spaces beyond physical geography.
Jingqi Steinhiser (b. 1997, Beijing, China) is a painter based in Chicago, USA. Working primarily in oil and acrylic, as well as mixed media painting, she is best known for her large-scale works that explore the animal body as both a traditional and contemporary symbol. Through these forms, Steinhiser examines how animals are depicted, translated, and commodified within visual culture, using allegory to reflect on displacement and the shifting meanings that emerge across cultural contexts.
Join us on Sunday, May 24th, from 2:00 to 5:00 PM on the fourth floor!
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Chinese American Museum of Chicago, 238 West 23rd Street, Chicago, United States
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