Jingqi is a multi-media painter who lives and works in New York City and Chicago. Jingqi Steinhiser received her MFA in painting at Rhode Island School of Design and BFA in painting at School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her practice prioritize asian immigrants who have trouble identifying their communities and belongings. Her research project seeks to go beyond the painting surface, building on her current practice to discover new existences. Jingqi’s goal is to disrupt cultural boundaries and embody the liminal spaces between Asian and American identities, and to ultimately imagine a new kind of inclusivity that embodies the transnational, the multiracial, the non-binary, and ultimately, the undefinable.