Jialin Long

Jialin Long

Born Year, Month, Day (Beijing, China)
Website jialinlongphotography.com

Jialin Long is a lens-based artist, photographer, who was born in Beijing, China and is based in Ireland. In 2020 she graduated with a first-class honours degree in photography from the Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT), winning multiple awards with her project Red Illuminates, which has been exhibited and published with photography institutions throughout Ireland, Europe, the UK, and Canada.¹

Bio & Career

Long is the Inspirational Arts Photography Award winner, the Gallery of Photography Ireland Graduate Awards winner, and Courthouse Gallery graduate award exhibition awardee in 2020. She was nominated as one of the FUTURES Irish Talents in 2021. Her latest work is a project commissioned by The Creative Ireland/ Dublin City Council Arts Office around the theme of diversity, which challenges stereotyped views of the Chinese community in Dublin. Long is a recipient of the Visual Arts Bursary Award and Agility Award from the Arts Council. Her photographs are in the collections with the Arts Council Ireland and with private collectors.

Publications

Appears in

2021, The Leftover Women published in FotoNostrum Magazine issue no.13 (FotoNostrum Gallery, Spain)
2020, Red illuminates is published as a TLP Edition by PhotoIreland
2020, Red illuminates is published on Dodho Magazine (Spain)

Awards and honours

2021, The Arts Council Visual Arts Bursary Award
2021, FUTURES: Irish Talents 2021 artist to join FUTURES Photography platform, selected by PhotoIreland
2021, Graduate Exhibition Award, The Courthouse Gallery, Co.Clare
2021, The Irish Times, 50 people to watch in 2021: The best young talent in Ireland
2021, Guest at Immigrant’s Journey Podcast, interviewed by Carmen Neta
2020, Creative Ireland Programme / Dublin City Council Artists’ Diversity Commissions winner
2020, Selected artist at MEET-Photo by Amsterdam based independent curator Iris Sikking
2020, Gallery of Photography Ireland Graduate Awards 2020 winner
2020, The inaugural Photoworks (London) Photography+ Graduate Award
2020, The Inspirational Arts Photography Award 2020 winner, select by Ángel Luis González, Director of PhotoIreland
2020, Award a year long membership at The Darkroom (Dublin)
2018 Science in Everyday Life won Cavan Monaghan Science Festival Photography Competition, 1st Place
2016 Silence won SCC Senior Photography Competition, Honourable Mentioned, Dublin
2015, Darkroom print Untitled won SCC Senior Photography
2015, Competition, 3rd Place for Black & White Photography, Dublin

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

Year, Title, Curator, Venue, City, Country (Listed chronologically)

Group exhibitions

2021, What Do you think of Me? , commissioned by The Creative Ireland Programme / Dublin City Arts Office / Gallery of Photography Ireland, will present in public in Dublin city
2021 Red illuminates, The Courthouse Gallery, Co.Clare
2021 The Leftover Women published in FotoNostrum Magazine issue no.13 (FotoNostrum Gallery, Spain)
2021 Short film Yuri screened at the 13th edition of the Dublin Chinese Lunar New Year 2021 – Year of the Ox festival. Accompanying a conversation with Tanya Kiang, Director of the Gallery of Photography
2020, Red illuminates featured in JRNL6 Fall 2020 Issue (Canada), selected by guest editor, Emma Bowkett, Director of Photography at Financial Times Weekend Magazine
2020, Red illuminates featured in Photoworks Photography + online magazine, #8 The Graduate Issue (UK)
2020, Red illuminates featured in The Pupil Sphere online exhibition (UK)
2020, HALFTONE print fair, The Library Project, Dublin.
2019, Light and Time Travel exhibited with Group Exhibition at IADT Quadrangle Building, Dublin
2018, Smurfs Believe Inequality exhibited with Photography & Curatorial Practice, IADT Quadrangle Building, Dublin
2018, Heading into the Unknown exhibited with Eighteen, New works from IADT 2nd year Photography, Steambox, Dublin
2018, If I had a Choice exhibited with Students Create: Choice Exhibition (for repeal the 8th referendum), The Complex, 15 Little Green Street, Dublin
2017, Androgynous exhibited on screens on campus in IADT, Dublin
2016, Trypophobia exhibited with Sight Specific, PhotoIreland Festival
2016, Filmbase, Dublin
2016, Trypophobia exhibited with St. Kevin’s College graduate exhibition, Steambox, Dublin
2015, The Meaning of Light black & white analogue exhibition, In-spire Galerie, Dublin