Jiayu’s recent solo exhibitions include Still, Life at 798CUBE (Beijing, 2026), Wind Ringing at the Zhejiang Art Museum (Hangzhou, 2024), Waves of Code at the CC Foundation (Shanghai, 2023), and Tracing the Sky at the Manchester International Festival (UK, 2019). Her work has been featured in major group exhibitions, including the 59th Venice Biennale (China Pavilion), transmediale (Berlin), Interreality (Los Angeles), ART021 (Shanghai), the Russia Ecological Art Biennale (Nizhny Novgorod), the Bangalore Science & Technology Arts Festival (India), the Guangzhou Triennial, the Beijing Media Art Biennale, and the Shenzhen-Hong Kong Urbanism/Architecture Biennale (China). Her work has also been presented at institutions including the V&A, Watermans Art Centre, Saatchi Gallery, Helen Hamlyn Design Centre, York Art Gallery, UCCA Edge, Yuz Museum, CAFAM, and K11 Art Space. She has collaborated with environmental organisations including WWF, Greenpeace, and Invisible Dust on projects addressing sustainability and climate change. Her works are held in the collections of institutions including the Zhejiang Art Museum, the Shenzhen Museum of Contemporary Art and Urban Planning, and the Xie Zilong Museum of Photography in Changsha.

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Jiayu received her MA from the Royal College of Art (2012–2014). From 2015 to 2019, she taught media art at several institutions in China, including the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Tsinghua University, and Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts. She is currently a PhD researcher at Goldsmiths, University of London, working within the Human and Machine Drawing Centre, an interdisciplinary research initiative between Fine Art and Computing. She also serves as a co-chair of the Leonardo/ISAST LASER series. In 2026, she was selected for a Visiting Studentship at Cambridge Digital Humanities, University of Cambridge