Yujia Ma (b. 1999, Zhejiang, China) is a visual artist working with lens and words.
She makes art to play and to heal — often bathing and breathing in the shared space between tongue-in-cheek and serious.
She believes in grit, serendipity, and a Higher Power in Photography.
Yujia received her MFA in Photography from Pratt Institute in May 2025, and earned her bachelor’s degree from Babson College with a concentration in Marketing.
She is currently based in Brooklyn, New York.
EDUCATION
2025 MFA, Photography, Pratt Institute — Brooklyn, NY
2023 BS, Marketing, Babson College — Wellesley, MA
SOLO EXHIBITION
202_ Matter of Time, ______ — ________
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 Trying To Tell You How I Feel, Gallery 263 — Cambridge, MA
2025 Things We Carry, Studio Montclair Inc. — Montclair, NJ
Pixel Prize Exhibition, Carrie Able Gallery — Brooklyn, NY
《回家》（Come Home), MFA Thesis Exhibition, Pratt Photo Gallery
— Brooklyn, NY
2024 from, Pratt Institute, Steuben Gallery — Brooklyn, NY
35 under 35, Long Beach Island Foundation — Loveladies, NJ
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BIO
Yujia Ma (b. 1999, Zhejiang, China) is a visual artist working with lens and words.
Originating from street photography and intuitively falling for self-portraiture and auto-fiction, her work moves through memory, trauma, humor, and healing.
Yujia makes art to play and to heal.
The process usually begins with trance writing. Then the camera — partner in crime, most loyal voyeur — becomes a portal to trance performance, while still demanding attention from the technical mind. Sometimes it opens onto autobiographical personae rooted in other people's stories and memories.
She finds inspiration in the body, the past, scars, swaying shadows, seductive reflections, or anything that clears the bar of her eye.
She believes in talent, effort, resilience, introspection, and serendipity.
Yujia earned her BS from Babson College with a concentration in Marketing, and her MFA in Photography from Pratt Institute in 2025. She has exhibited with Gallery 263, Decode Gallery, Blue Moon Gallery, NJ Pinhole Club, and Carrie Able Gallery, among others, and been featured in 1723 Magazine, MORPH MAG, Know Magazine, and Dilettante.
She is based between New York and Jinhua.
EDUCATION
2025 MFA, Photography, Pratt Institute — Brooklyn, NY
2023 BS, Marketing, Babson College — Wellesley, MA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026 Women of Ma , Hollister Gallery, Babson College, Wellesley, MA
2025《回家》（Come Home), MFA Thesis Exhibition, Pratt Photo Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 COLLECTION 2026, Decode Gallery, Tucson, Arizona
2026 Trying To Tell You How I Feel, Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA
2026 2026 NJ Pinhole Club Exhibition, Unique Photo, Philadelphia, PA
2026 Put a Pin(hole) In It, Blue Moon Camera & Machine, Portland, OR
2025 Things We Carry, Studio Montclair Inc., Montclair, NJ
2025 Pixel Prize Exhibition, Carrie Able Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2024 from, Pratt Institute, Steuben Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2024 35 under 35, Long Beach Island Foundation, Loveladies, NJ
PUBLICATION
2026 The Dilettante, Issue 7
2024 17:23, Special Edition, Vol.148
2024 Know Magazine, Vol. 42
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