Yijia Ma
Chicago

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Yijia Ma is an interdisciplinary artist currently studying at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her practice focuses on exploring and imagining unknown creatures as reflections of her inner world. Working primarily with materials such as TPU, 3D printing, metal, and wood, she constructs hybrid forms that blur the boundaries between the organic and the artificial. Yijia’s works often resemble living organisms—curious, tender, and slightly uncanny—revealing her fascination with transformation and adaptation. Through sculpture and installation, she creates spaces where imagined biology becomes a language for emotion, identity, and connection between reality and fantasy.