Who is
Jerome China?
Artist Statement
My work reclaims the material and cultural value of discarded metal, transforming what society deems obsolete into vessels of renewed meaning. Each salvaged object carries traces of a legacy, which I honor and
re-imagine through sculpture.
Guided by intuition, I unify fragments never meant to belong. Rusted remnants and fractured tools shed their former identities, yet their past whispers beneath the surface.
Through this process, art becomes transformation—of material and of value. What was discarded is elevated; what was silent speaks. These metal sculptures invite new and unique interpretations of resilience and reinvention.
Solo Exhibitions
2025
Found & Reclaimed, New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ
2022
Blended, Kean University, Union, NJ
2019
After Relevance, One River School of Art + Design, Allendale, NJ
2018
Conversations With Myself: A Five-Year Dialog
Tikhonova & Wintner Fine Art Gallery, New York, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025
Hudson County Community College, Pathways to Freedom: We Get to Tell the Story Jersey City, NJ
Hick Art Center Gallery, Art Show Exhibit, Newtown, PA
2024
Tanya Weddemire Gallery, Admiration, Brooklyn, NY
2023
Novado Gallery, Sculpture Invitational, Jersey City, NJ
ArtHaus, Shifting Times Exhibition, Allentown, PA
2022
Arts in the Atrium, Morristown Performing Arts Center, Morristown, NJ
2021
Akwaaba Gallery Mask Parade, Newark, NJ
2020
Novado Gallery, Consciousness & Linage, Jersey City, NJ (Two Person Show)
Akwaaba Gallery, Rhapsody, Newark, NJ
2019
Caribbean Fine Arts Fair National Cultural Foundation, Bridgetown, Barbados
Merseles Studios Gallery, Privilege, Jersey City, NJ
Index Gallery, Between Wisdom & Madness, Newark, NJ
Akwaaba Gallery, Manifest, Newark, NJ
Rush Gallery II, I Kan Do Dat, Philadelphia, PA
Upper Darby Gallery, I Kan Do Dat, Philadelphia, PA
2018
Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Friends of the Rail Park Benefit Auction, Philadelphia, PA
Six, Five, Four, Three, Two, One, Six Columns Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
Jersey City Artist Studio Tour Flagship Location, Jersey City, NJ
Resistance, Merseles Studios Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
Off The Wall "New Collectors Show" - Novado Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
2017
Group exhibition: America Hoodoo - Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY
Superwoman - 107 Bowers Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
2016
Exchange - Rush Galleries, New York, NY
Washington Project for the Arts Fundraiser Auction, Washington, DC
Gallery Aferro Fundraiser, Newark, NJ
2015
Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series, Rush Galleries, New York, NY (NY Regional Finalist)
From the Scrap Bin, Port-O-Lounge, Jersey City, NJ
Power, Protest & Resistance: Art of Revolution - Skylight Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Mask - Tikhonova & Winter Gallery, New York, NY
Public Exhibitions: Temporary
2016
City Hall - Jersey City, NJ Jersey City Artist Studio Tour - The Guardian
2014
Growing Good Vibes Community Garden, Jersey City, NJ - Chief
2012-2013
All Iron Works - Jersey City, NJ Sidewalk Display - The Guardian & Chief
Selected Foundation & Family Collections
Petrucci Family Foundation Collector of African American Art
Rising Tide Capital, Inc. Corporate Collection
William C. Robinson Family Collection of African American Art
Danny Simmons Collection of African American & African Art
Donnell Walker Family Collection of African American Art
Awards
Jersey City Art Council Individual Artist Award 2022
Publications
Shifting Times African American Artists 2020-2021, 2022
Gathering of the Tribes #16 Black Lives Matter Issue 2022
Jersey Journal Hudson Edition: Novado reopens with urban landscapes and welded steel, July 2, 2020
Jersey Journal Hudson Edition: Sculptor offers up a world of art with backyard metal sculpture garden, January 30, 2019
Catalogues
Empower The Village: For The Love of Art 5th Anniversary Commemorative Journal Juneteenth Fine Art Exhibition
Blended Kean University Solo Exhibition, 2022
Caribbean Fine Arts Fair National Cultural Foundation, 2019
Washington Project for the Arts Gala, 2016
Curatorial Efforts
2025
Said What I Said, Novado Gallery, Jersey City, NJ
2023
Blackity Black, Novado Gallery (Voted one the best exhibitions of the year in Hudson County, NJ)
Film & Television
Law & Order Season 25 Episode 7, November 14, 2024
Upcoming Auctions: October 2025
Rush Arts 30th Anniversary Fundraiser Auction, Swann Galleries, New York, New York
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