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Jianna So '22
In “closeted”, a silhouette projected onto a bralette in a closet reimagines the queer closeted experience as a positive one.
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2021
Projection Installation
By Jianna So '22
Aluminum CNC machined monstera leaf inspired bottle opener. I promise it looks better than it sounds.
2024
Sculpture
Stillness, the relationship between Venice’s constant landscape and its moving parts, environments of order that have witnessed extravagant change
2018
acrylic on canvas
A love letter to passionate yet high-strung and jaded Generation Z, this series focuses on youth’s struggles to find meaning in today’s online world.
Photography
A collage made from mind media upon reflection of a quarter of studying the classics in Stanford’s freshman SLE residential program.
Mixed Media/Collage
This is a collage I made featuring my favorite colors. There are bits of paper popping off of the page!
Digital Photograph of Paper Collage
August on my family’s ranch in Jalisco, México.
2017
Environmental Photographs
An experiment with my visual synesthesia, which imparts color on 2D shapes. This piece intends to instill a sense of curious serenity.
2016
Digital Visual Art
Hide my anger behind flowers // my anxiety behind moths // my sadness behind ▓▓▓
Photoshop
A piece set on a quiet, sunny afternoon in Northeast Italy. Used a reference.
Colored Pencil on Paper
A fun, surreal piece exploring themes related to the modern food industry.
2014
Watercolor on Paper
I love the idea of a personal brand, especially in 2016.
Color Film
Open your eyes…this is the forest reverie, a queer healing space situated between mother nature and the digital world. Sleep tight.
2022
This piece was inspired by the many rooftop cafes and stunning views of the Bosphorus River while I was exploring Istanbul on a summer vacation.
Adobe Photoshop Illustration
An abstract piece with a collage element, created from splicing a collaborative image. It invokes a sense of depth and the condensation of space.
Oil paint and paper on paper
How does the lover’s gaze interpret and transform the body? What does it mean to paint the beloved intimately yet leave them unidentifiable?
Acrylic on canvas
This work converts content into physical form. Charlie Chan, played by white actors in yellowface, investigates murders. But who is he really hurting?
Ink and print on wood
A contrast between the cold, grayish tones of the subject and the warmer ones of the koi around her as they mesh together following the fish’s flow.
Oil Paint on Canvas
February is a gray month, but these flowers bloomed anyway. Link to Artwork
sublimation print on synthetic blue satin
Popular Korean and American soda brands represent my Korean-Americanness, and the crushing pressures of assimilation that warps self-perception.
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
Portrait of my friend, a queer black woman, in her room the night of the 2025 election results.
Acrylic on Canvas