Jerielyn Mao

Jerielyn Mao is a Taiwanese-American mixed-media artist and illustrator, based in Los Angeles and Taipei. She graduated from ArtCenter College of Design, with a BFA in Illustration.

One of Jerielyn's objectives as an artist is for her viewers to empathize with what they have yet to experience personally. Her work frequently challenges viewers to question whether or not they find what they see to be appealing to the eye or mind, and why. It invites them to discover something heart-felt within her constructs.

Her aesthetics is often centralized on the processes and conditions of the ethereal, while at times also celebrating the rawness within the unconventional.

Jerielyn is most interested in revealing beauty in the grotesque, and portraying the real within the surreal. As a woman, she is ceaselessly intrigued by the concepts of femininity and androgyny, as well as the numerous subjective definitions and modes of them. From early on in her childhood, Jerielyn has developed and harbored an interest for the bizarre, and spent much time invested in observing and attempting to understand it--within her surroundings, others, and herself. Such are among her favorite subjects.

BFA Illustration - ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.

SELECT EXHIBITIONS

2018 Coaster Show | Gallery 30 South | Pasadena, CA

2018 Red Hot Wicked II | Studio C Gallery | Los Angeles, CA

2018 Music for Your Eyes | Orange County Center for Contemporary Art | Santa Ana, CA

2017 Off with Their Heads | ShockBoxx Project Gallery | Hermosa Beach, CA

2017 Something Witchy | The Hive Gallery | Los Angeles, CA

2017 The Immigrant Show | Neutra Institute Gallery & Museum | Los Angeles, CA

2016 Graduation Exhibition | ArtCenter College of Design | Pasadena, CA

2016 Contemporary Young Taiwanese Artists Exhibition | Julia Gallery | Taipei, Taiwan

2016 Art Tainan 2016 | Julia Gallery | Tainan, Taiwan

2015 Gracias Por Nada | 11:11 A Creative Collective Gallery | Reseda, CA