Artist Name: Jiangshengyu Nova Pan
Residency Dates: March – May 2026
Born: 1990
Hometown: Hangzhou, China
Lives & Works: Baltimore, New York and Beijing
URL: https://jiangshengyunovapan.cargo.site | Instagram @pannovapan
Education:
2023 – MFA in Mount Royal School of Art, Maryland Institute College of Art, MD
2014 – BFA in Design, School of Visual Arts, NY
Bio/Statement:
Jiangshengyu Nova Pan is one of the selected artists for the 2026 NYC-Based Artist Residency Program.
Jiangshengyu Nova Pan is a moving-image and installation artist.
My work explores human mobility from an individual perspective, often my own, focusing on the profound transformations of space, power relations, and social networks faced by mobile populations. Initially inspired by China’s rapid migration, I uses this history as an aperture, playing with scale and moving beyond place, exploring how mobility is internalized and migration felt in the body.
Through lens-based works, installations and my semi-fictional writings, I weave together ‘facts’ and ‘fiction’, revealing that what we hold onto is an unverifiable shard, uncertain, always in motion. My practice is heavily influenced by cinema-as-medium, hearsay, and intergenerational story-telling.
Pan’s work has been exhibited internationally, including To the Letter (2025) at BIENALSUR, Centro Colombo Americano, Medellín; Lights Off at 8 pm (2025) at Stamp Gallery, College Park, MD; CHEW-ACHE (2025) at The Compound, Baltimore; Exceed Expectations (2025) at Asia North, Baltimore; Screening Project 2.0 (2025) at START Museum, Shanghai; and CURRENTS New Media Festival (2024) at El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe. Additional exhibitions include Confluence (2024) at Area 405 and Fleeting Presence (2023) at NoMüNoMü, both in Baltimore.
Her films and videos have screened at The 12th Annual New Year/New Work Festival (2025) at The Film-Makers’ Cooperative, New York; Beijing International Short Film Festival (2024), Beijing; From Synthesizers to AI (2024) at the Hopkins Bloomberg Center, Washington, D.C. and POETIC FRACTALS (2024) at New/Next Film Festival, Baltimore. Pan has participated in residencies at ACRE (2025) in Wisconsin and Millay Arts (2025) in New York.
The 2026 NYC-Based Artist Residency Program is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
