Painting & Writing
Jamie-May Minjie (b. 1990; Jamie Ma) is a millennial writer, poet, visual artist, and cultural entrepreneur.
She writes about immigration experiences, modern love, and LGTBQ+ topics. Her expressionistic watercolor explores the potential of flow, fluidity, and the embodiment of trapped emotion release. She holds an MA from UCL and has appeared in several publications across the U.S, including Barzakh Magazine, and CLIP. She’s the author of Heart, Diamond, Club, Spade and chapbook, Strong at Heart, and co-author of Antonym.
Her watercolor practice, initiated as a therapeutic practice to process pain and heal depression, is an embodiment of an emotional landscape that mimics the topography as well as the mountains and water traditional Chinese ink painting. By interacting with the fluid medium, she engages in a dialogue with the medium itself, searching for the final form that emerges from the paper along with this conversation. Minjie's creative pursuits have recently extended to include other fluid mediums, such as acrylics, heralding the inception of her latest body of work, Motherland Alienation.
Her major artistic influences are some of her personal contact, including Ellen Grossman, Eva Robarts, and Peng Kanglong.
2020 MA, UCL, University of London
2018-19 Watercolor, P. I. Art Center, Manhattan, NYC
2018-19 Workshop member at Brooklyn Writers Project
2017 Creative Writing, NYU School of Professional Studies
2013 Bachelor of Architecture in Architecture & Bachelor of Arts in Applied Foreign Languages, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
2011 Architecture Exchange Student Program, Cal Poly Pomona
2008-11 Oil training with Taiwanese artist Peng Kanglong (彭康隆)
2004 Pencil drawing training with Taiwanese artist Peng Kanglong (彭康隆)
2022 Selected Hatchery member. BaseKX. UCL Innovation & Enterprise, University of London.
2020 Distinction Award, Master of Arts in Translation Studies. UCL, University of London.
2013 Research Fellowship, Austrian Artist in Residence Research. W.Island.
2012 Outstanding Youth Award, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology.
2011 Excellent Award, J. J. Pan Architect Student Competition
2011 Sustainable Award, Cross-Strait Academic Exchange Urban Design Workshop, Tamkang University
2011 First Prize. Asian Four University Academic Exchange Urban Design Workshop. Sungkyunkwan University.
2010 First Prize. Asian Four University Academic Exchange Urban Design Workshop. Kanagawa University.