Bio
Jiatong Lu is a visual artist working across photography, video, and archives. Born and raised in Northwest China and currently based in New York, she holds an MFA in Photography, Video, and Related Media from SVA.
Her work centers on people living outside dominant narratives. Moving between individual experience and public history, her practice examines how personal and collective trauma, systemic forces, and social inequality shape human life.
Jiatong's work has been exhibited internationally, including in New York, Chicago, Tucson, and Richmond in the United States, as well as in London, Berlin, Rome, Brussels, Shanghai, and Beijing.
Her awards include the Award of Excellence from the 2025 Alexia Vision Grant, the 2024 JGS Fellowship for Photography from NYFA, the Winner of the 2024 LensCulture Art Photography Award, and the 2019 NYFA Artist Fellowship in Photography.
Awards & Grants
- 2025Shortlist for the Getxophoto Image Festival 2026
- 2025The Center for Photography at Woodstock Portfolio Review Winner
- 2025Award of Excellence in the 2025 Alexia Vision Grant Professional Category
- 2025New York Portfolio Review
- 2025Scholarship for the Social Documentary Network Portfolio Review
- 2024JGS Fellowship for Photography, New York Foundation for the Arts
- 2024Winner for the LensCulture Art Photography Awards 2024
- 20242024 Lucie Scholarship, Honorable Mention in Photojournalism / Documentary — Emerging
- 2024Finalist for the 2024 Three Shadows Photography Award
- 2024Shortlist for the Professional Portraiture category at the Sony World Photography Awards 2024
- 2024Shortlist for the 9th LuganoAward photo contest
- 2024Annual Winner for the 2023 Tuchong OPENSEE Photography Awards
- 2024Finalist for the 5th Chelsea International Photography Competition
- 2023Nominee for the 2023 Foam Paul Huf Award
- 2023Nominee for the Leica Oskar Barnack Award
- 2019NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts
Solo Exhibitions
- 2026Nowhere Land, Center for Photography at Woodstock (CPW), Kingston, NY
Selected Exhibitions
- 2025The 46th PhotoRegional Exhibition, Opalka Gallery, Albany, New York
- 2025Tuchong Opensee Photography Awards Exhibition, Wuhan Center for Image Arts, China
- 2024Sony World Photography Awards 2024 Exhibition, Willy-Brandt-Haus, Berlin, Germany
- 2024LensCulture New York 2024, Caelum Gallery, NYC
- 2024Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition, Somerset House, London
- 2024Photofairs Shanghai 2024, Shanghai Exhibition Center
- 20242024 Three Shadows Photography Exhibition, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing
- 2024The 5th Annual Chelsea International Photography Competition Exhibition, Agora Gallery, NYC
- 2024Photographic Explorations °01 Exhibition, Photo Brussels Festival
- 2023Storyteller, Decode Gallery, Tucson, Arizona
- 2023Through My Lens, Online exhibition, ARTDOC Photography Magazine
- 2021Mojo Exhibition, The Charta Festival, Rome, Italy
- 2021UnBound10 Exhibition, Candela Gallery, Richmond, VA, USA
- 2021Context 2021 Exhibition, Filter Space, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- 2021The Dreamer Exhibition, LoosenArt Gallery, Rome, Italy
- 2021WAAM's Focus Exhibition HOUSE & UNIVERSE, Woodstock Artists Association & Museum, New York, USA
- 2018Monroe/Monroe, Shangba Gallery, Beijing
- 2018The 3rd Beijing International Photography Biennial, Beizhen, China
- 2016The Rockaway Artists Alliance, sTudio 7 Gallery, New York, USA
Publications
- 2025Nowhere Land, PHOTOWORLD Magazine, ISSUE 2025.05
- 2024Long Dismissed, Chronic Lyme Disease Is Finally Getting Its Moment, Time Magazine
- 2024Fav Photos Found in 2024: 50 Photos by 50 Photographers, Booooooom
- 2024Nowhere Land, GALLERYPHOTOGRAPHS
- 2024The Secret Place With Nowhere To Hide, LensCulture
- 2024Nowhere Land, Chinese Photographers Magazine, ISSUE 2024.05
- 2024Nowhere Land, Booooooom
- 2024Nowhere Land, See-zeen Issue #10
- 2024Nowhere Land, Tuchong Open See Gallery
- 2023Nowhere Land, Artdoc Magazine Issue #6
- 2023Nowhere Land, Lenscratch
- 2023Photo project puts the toll of Lyme disease in focus, Maine News
- 2022The Secret Place With Nowhere To Hide, VOSTOK magazine, ISSUE NO. 32
- 2021Mojo, Yogurt Magazine
- 2021Girls, featured in The Art Prize newsletter, Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize
- 2020The Lost Bond, Photography Of China
- 2018The Misplaced Feeling of Two Single Memories, Jiazazhi
- 2017The lost Bond, CHIP FOTO-VIDEO DIGITAL, ISSUE 2017.12
- 2016Girls, A5 MAGAZINE, ISSUE NO. 14 / Youth