Jianmo Yang ( 杨简陌, pronounced “Gem-Mo”)

Raised in Guizhou, China, Jianmo moved to the United States to study architecture and received her Master of Architecture from UCLA in 2021. After several years in architectural practice, she transitioned to a full-time painting practice in 2025. Her interdisciplinary background continues to inform the way she observes, organizes, and questions the world through painting.

Rather than treating painting as an extension of architecture, she approaches it as a way of investigating memory, perception, and lived experience. Her practice embraces intuition alongside structure, allowing each work to evolve through an open-ended process of making.

She is currently based in Los Angeles, where she maintains an independent studio practice.