ELLEN JONG
ELLEN JONG (b. 1976, Queens, NY) studied at the Parsons School of Design and The School of Visual Arts, but owes her perspective to her early life photographing on the streets of New York. She is the author of the photographic monographs Pees On Earth (Miss Rosen Edition/powerHouse Books 2006) and Getting To Know My Husband’s Cock (2010; featured in aperture Books’ Self Publish Be Happy by Bruno Ceschel), and is a featured artist discussed in-depth in Radical Intimacy in Contemporary Art: Abjection: Revolt and Objecthood by Keren Moscovitch (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023.) Her work has been covered by The New Yorker, Photograph, The Guardian, and The Wall Street Journal. Jong began her foray into ink sculpture in 2014 after a trip to Guilin, China during which she returned to her earliest memories of painting lessons in her childhood home in Queens where the traditional Chinese ink stick and brush were her first writing tools. Selected solo exhibitions include SITUATIONS, NYC; Praz-Delavellade Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; and Basement 6 Collective Space, Shanghai, China. Selected group shows include Five Minutes To Live (curated by Benjamin Tischer, New Discretions, NYC); The Empty Gallery Group Show 5 (curated by Scott Ogden, Shrine Gallery, NYC); and Every Woman Biennial, LaMaMa Galleria, NYC.