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Rainmelon Studio is a New York-based creative studio operating at the intersection of art, technology, AI, and visual culture. Led by visual artist Jingyi Zhang, the studio explores how intelligence-both human and artificial- can shape new forms of perception, storytelling, and experience.
The practice spans AI-driven visual direction, generative systems, interactive installations, and experimental image-making, blending aesthetics, code, and data to create resonating projects/products.


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ABOUT

Rainmelon Studio is a New York-based creative studio operating at the intersection of art, technology, AI, and visual culture. Led by visual artist Jingyi Zhang, the studio explores how intelligence-both human and artificial- can shape new forms of perception, storytelling, and experience.
The practice spans AI-driven visual direction, generative systems, interactive installations, and experimental image-making, blending aesthetics, code, and data to create resonating projects/products.


AWARDS

  • Honorable Mention, Landscape Photography, IMACRES Awards 2025. (November 2025)
  • Honorable Mention, Fine Art, Conceptual Category, ND Awards 2025. (November 2025)
  • Silver Award, Exposure One Awards, Minimalism.(September 2025)
  • Award Winner, YPF PHOTO AWARD 2025, YAKUSHIMA Photo Festival, 屋久島国際写真祭 (September 2025)
  • Merit Prize, NAT Photo Society — 2025 ABSTRACT WINNERS PHOTOGRAPHY(June 2025).
  • Young Talent Award, “PHOTOVILLE4600” Photo Competition, IPFO 2025, Olten, Switzerland (August 2025).
  • Shortlist Award, Visual Art Open 2025 (VAO)(July 2025).
  • Third Place Award, All About Photo Contest,#50 “Shapes”, AAP Magazine(August 2025).
  • TOP 10 Winners, June&July Photo Contest, Photogenic Mind(July 2025）



SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
  • “When Blurry Memories Awaken”, Nguyen Wahed Gallery, New York, USA (Mar 2026)
  • “I Personally Believe that...”, Not A Gallery, London, UK (Jan 2026)
  • “Photoing”, 幻Photism, Chengdu, Sichuan, China (Dec 2025)
  • Pixelated Dream”, Accent Sisters, New York, NY, USA. (Nov 2025)
  • "The 27" – Landscape Exhibition, A Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX, USA (Aug 2025)
  • Echos of Culture, Monad NYC, New York, NY, USA (Aug 2025)
  • Warehouse Market – New York Edition, New York, NY, USA (July 2025)
  • Stillness, Allora Gallery, Online Exhibition (July 2025)
  • Sky & Water, Praxis Gallery, St. Paul, MN, USA (July 2025)
  • Panoramas Exhibition, Echos Studio Gallery, São Paulo, Brazil (July 2025)
  • Summertime Novel, Moon Gallery & Studio, Tokyo, Japan (July 2025)
  • SQUARE  XVIII, Decode Gallery, Tucson, Arizona, USA, 2025, 07, Decode Gallery, Tucson, AZ, USA (July 2025)
  • Still Echoing – "Vacuum World", Flowing Space Gallery, New York, NY, USA (June 2025)
  • Dialogue: Tree — Circular Ground × Naturally Occurring, Lingliang Farm, Huzhou, Zhejiang, China (June 2025)
  • Red Zone Underground Art Exhibition – "Vacuum World", Gate of Nine Dragons, Beijing, China (June 2025)
  • The Portal of Nature – "Vacuum World", Brooklyn Art Cave, New York, NY, USA (May 2025)
  • Tranquillum – "Yonghe Temple", Gallerium, Online Exhibition (May 2025)
  • The Peripheral Experiment – "Yugua Island", Dongbuzhou, China (May 2025)
  • Planting Verses Where the Wind Pauses, Yan Art Gallery, Hainan, China (May 2025)
  • A World in Suspension, No. 103, Wulin New Village, Hangzhou, China (May 2025)
  • Film & Media Studies Academic Conference, Columbia University, Lenfest Center for the Arts, New York, NY, USA (Feb 2025)
  • Fictional Landscape – Group Photography Exhibition, Yachang Art Center, Beijing, China (Apr 2024)



PUBLICATIONS & PRESS
  • Knitted Nature;VOLUME FIFTY NINE | ISSUE #10;MOB Journal (November 2025)
       https://www.thisismob.com/editorials/knitted-nature
  • Knitted Nature: The symbiosis of fabric and nature in New York in autumn; BAZAAR CHINA (November 2025)
        http://m.bazaar.com.cn/bazaarfashion/2025/1025/351826.shtml
  • Vacuum World and the Silence Between Things; Expressive Aesthetics, Issue nr. 5, Artdoc Magazine (November 2025)
       https://www.artdoc.photo/issue/expressive-aesthetics
  • Artist Interview, ART MAKER Magazine, Issue #1 (October 2025)      
  • Interview with Jingyi Zhang, Visual Arts Journal (August 2025)
       https://visualartjournal.com/2025/08/16/jingyi-zhang/
  • The 27 – Limited Edition Fine Art Book, A Smith Gallery (August  2025)
  • Artist Review, Titan Contemporary Publishing. (August 2025)
       https://www.titancontemporary.net/single-post/jingyi-zhang
  • Artist Interview, Curatory Magazine, Issue #5 (July 2025)
        https://www.curatorymagazine.com/post/jingyi-zhang
  • Photography Feature, Visual Poetry Journal, Issue #3 (July 2025)
  • Vacuum World – Still Human Edition, Negatives Mag (June 2025)
  • “Oasis”, DIVIDE MAGAZINE, Issue #14 (June 2025)
       https://issuu.com/divideartmagazine/docs/divide_magazine_issue_14
  • Vacuum World, DEREAL MAGAZINE (April 2025)
       https://www.derealdigital.com/vacuumworld
  • “Applying ‘Exam-Oriented Mindset’ for Newcomers in the Artist Workplace”, COSMOPOLITAN China, no. 2 (2023), pp. 109–114
  • “The Indescribable Canal: Beijing Grand Canal Museum”, TOURISM, no. 3 (2024), pp. 40–47
  • “Meet Jingyi Zhang”, Canvas Rebel Magazine (March 2025)
        https://canvasrebel.com/meet-jingyi-zhang/
  • “Daily Inspiration: Meet Jingyi Zhang”, Voyage LA (May 2025)
        https://voyagela.com/interview/daily-inspiration-meet-jingyi-zhang/
  • “Analysis of Appearance Anxiety from the Perspective of Pseudo Environment”, Education and Media Studies, no.5 (2022), pp. 84–86




CONTACT
Email: jingyizhang145@gmail.com
Instagram: rainmelon.studio
Instagram:jingyi_rainmz