Jialu gao
Jialu Gao (b. 1996, Shanghai, China) is an artist currently living and working in New York and Shanghai. She received her BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York and her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Influenced by spiritual inquiry and symbolic language, Gao’s practice centers on constructing a visual system that exists between perception, consciousness, and prayer. Rather than following traditional academic training in technique and structure, her creative trajectory is driven by inner spiritual impulses. Through intuitive use of color, form, and invented symbols, she generates what she calls “Messenger-Images”—visual entities that invite perception and evoke spiritual resonance. Her paintings emphasize openness and nonlinearity, proposing a method of viewing as a contemplative and perceptual act. Gao’s work has been collected by institutions including the Long Museum and Yunjian Art Museum, and has been exhibited in New York, Shanghai, and other places. Her visual language, which merges the symbolic, spiritual, and perceptual, forms a distinctive spiritual vocabulary within contemporary art.