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Installation view, Seeing Through: Jia Aili’s Parallel Paintings, Gagosian, Beverly Hills, 2026. Artwork © Jia Aili Studio. Photo: Jeff McLane

Jia Aili: Seeing Through

Gagosian, Beverly Hills Los Angeles · Mid-City

Exhibition on view: Sep 10, 2026 - Oct 10, 2026

Jia Aili debuts his new concept of “parallel painting,” layering imagery, abstraction, and painted Plexiglas to expand painting beyond a single surface. Drawing on mythology, art history, landscapes, and historical references, his works create shifting relationships between image, space, and time, inviting viewers to experience multiple realities at once.

Jia Aili

Jia Aili (b. 1979, Dandong, China) is a key figure in Chinese contemporary painting. He graduated from the Second Studio (New Representationalism) of the Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts in Shenyang in 2004 and taught there until 2007, then moved to Beijing, where his breakout solo The Wasteland opened that year. His expansive canvases interweave landscapes, historical images, and abstract forms.

Artworks in this exhibition

Installation view, Seeing Through: Jia Aili’s Parallel Paintings, Gagosian, Beverly Hills, 2026. Artwork © Jia Aili Studio. Photo: Jeff McLane