About Me
Jessica Kang is a visual documentarian whose work explores place, culture, and the built environment through illustration, narrative, and site-responsive practice.
Working across commissioned projects, cultural collaborations, and select consulting engagements, she creates images that distill atmosphere, identity, and spatial memory with elegance, clarity, and restraint.
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EDUCATION
- 2025 / Master in Public Administration
John F Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Cambridge, MA - 2013 / Master of Fine Arts Coursework
Parsons School of Design
New York, NY - 2008 / Bachelor of Commerce (Honours)
Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC
SELECT EXHIBITIONS
- 2018 – 2021 / Public Art Installation, “Windows to Nanaimo”, Vancouver Island Conference Centre, Nanaimo, BC
- 2013 / Site-specific group installation, “Intervention”, New York, NY
- 2013 / Workshop exhibition, “Telling Stories”, New York, NY
AWARDS & GRANTS
- 2025 / Fulbright Canada – Harvard Kennedy School
- 2023 / Canada-Korea Connections Fund
- 2023 / ArtStarts Creative Spark, Vancouver, BC
- 2022 / UBC Community Grant, Vancouver, BC – Two-time Recipient
- 2022 / ArtStarts Explores, Vancouver, BC
WORKSHOPS & TRAINING
- 2023 / AsiaLink Suwon, South Korea, workshops with Jeong Seung-Bin, Sheila Putri “Sheilasplayground”
- 2019 / Workshop at the Civita Institute, Italy, with Stephanie Bower
- 2018 / Urban Sketchers Global Symposium, Portugal, workshops with Jim Richards, Simone Ridyard, Eduardo Bajzek, and Paul Wang
- 2017 / Instructional Skills Workshop (ISW) Certificate for Adult Learning, Victoria, BC, Canada
- 2013 / Workshop with David Trubridge, New York, NY
- 2011 – 2012 / Various classes in ceramics at the Gardiner Museum of Ceramics, Toronto, ON
Her work is informed by an international life and a sustained attention to the atmosphere of place. Her practice reflects an interest in how architecture, landscape, and cultural environments carry memory, identity, and feeling.
Returning to Canada sharpened this sensibility, deepening her engagement with the visual language of civic landmarks, institutional spaces, and the distinct landscapes of Canada. The result is work that feels intimate, refined, and quietly resonant.
Approach
Jessica works primarily in watercolor, using a loose, observational hand to translate architecture, landscape, and cultural setting into images with atmosphere and clarity. Her compositions are shaped by memory, place, and the emotional character of an environment.
Soft in palette and understated in tone, the work is attentive to the details that give a place its identity. The result is imagery that feels intimate, elegant, and quietly enduring.
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STAY IN TOUCH
Location
Vancouver, BC, Canada
studio@jessicakang.com