ShanghART Gallery is pleased to present Zhu Jia's solo exhibition "Recent Paintings" on 5 September, 2020. The recent paintings are documents of daily life. They depict social situations—picnics, parties, dinners—in which friends, acquaintances and strangers gather. The scenes take place in familiar settings such as the Barbican Estates in London; or in personal, domestic ones like the garden of a friend’s home. The figures are often part of the artist’s own social circle and what is depicted are collaged from real life.

In each of the paintings, the artist is pictured slightly outside of the main action or frame. While the paintings have the grandeur of history paintings, they present everyday activities of leisure and play, from the celebratory to the mundane.