Caroline Ji

Caroline Ji (季晨曦)
b. 1988

Caroline Ji is a self-taught artist currently based in Toronto, Canada.

Her current body of work centers around themes of emotional intimacy, self-perception, and how human beings relate to each other. Having been an engineer before painting, she constantly finds herself trying to reconcile the unemotional analyses of image making - spatial depth, geometry, design and composition, reality vs painted reality, and so forth - with the emotional urge to make paintings, so that the images may convey the intended emotions while being rooted in critical thinking. She paints people around her, and her memories and thoughts surrounding immigration, gender equality and its power dynamics, cultural identity, emotional capacity all contribute to the narrative in her work. 

She received her BASc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo in 2012. Her paintings are collected in private collections across Canada, USA, Asia, and Europe. She has exhibited in Canada, USA, and Australia.