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Jessica Kung Dreyfus 龔捷西 (gong jie xi) is an Asian American cross-disciplinary artist, designer, and writer. She is the founder of Make Conscious.

Her creative practice is a contemporary expression of the Ancient Chinese view of Landscape 山水 (shan shui) as a form of consciousness that finds expression in art, architecture, and poetry. Over the past 20 years her work has evolved from drawing and map-making into performance and installation in the realm of social practice and institutional transformation.

Her focused gaze and the powerful containers that her work creates are influenced by her multi-cultural methodology for transformation, her deep-seated belief in the resilience of humanity, and her decades long Buddhist training. She completed a 450 day silent meditation retreat from 2010-2012 with her partner Stéphane Dreyfus and has been teaching consciousness and creativity for over 15 years.

She has exhibited and performed her work at museums and galleries around the world including Centrale Montemartini in Rome, Italy, the De Young in San Francisco, CA, and the European Art Center in Xiamen, China. Her work is held in private collections in New York, London, Rome, Shanghai, and San Francisco.

Education:
B.A. cum laude, Yale University, Architecture 
M.F.A., California College of the Arts

Studio: Hunter’s Point Shipyard, San Francisco, CA

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