Jianjie Ji maintains studios in Honolulu and San Francisco.

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His practice investigates the conditions through which structure forms, bears, weakens, fails, and reorganizes itself over time.

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Working primarily with oil pigment, mineral-based materials, stainless-steel mesh, and gravity-driven processes, his paintings develop through accumulation, pressure, fracture, redistribution, and ongoing material transformation. Rather than treating painting as image production, his work approaches painting as a structural condition in which relations continuously emerge and reorganize.

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Over the past three decades, his practice has evolved from material experimentation toward a broader inquiry into the conditions of ongoing formation. Recent work examines the interconnected roles of load, gravity, failure, redistribution, and breath as conditions through which continuity remains possible.

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His work has been exhibited in the United States and China and is included in the collections of the Honolulu Museum of Art, The Contemporary Museum Honolulu, Shanghai Art Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai.