Jingyi Zhang


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I design AI-powered product with creativity and systematic thinking.

B2B/B2C SaaS for creative & production workflow.

Currently @ReelShort.




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Film portrait of Jingyi Zhang

I bring structure to creativity.

Product Designer based in New York. At ReelShort, I design B2B SaaS tools that power production workflows for short dramas reaching 100M+ views. With a background in art and technology from Columbia University, I prototype in code and ship designs from concept to launch.

Outside of work, I run Rainmelon Studio, a practice in visual design and art direction. You can see more of my projects there → Website↗

What I do

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Product design

End-to-end design for complex B2B tools — research, flows, interaction and the systems that hold them together.

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Design engineering

Working prototypes in code, so ideas are tested inside real workflows before anything ships.

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Visual art and AI

Photography, generative systems and AI-driven art direction through my practice, Rainmelon Studio.

Experience

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Selected projects

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  • Google Developer Group · VIBEProduct Designer
  • Accent Sister GalleryDesigner & Creative Technologist
  • Columbia University Digital Storytelling LabUI/UX Designer

Education

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  • Columbia UniversityM.A. in Emergent Media

Rainmelon Studio

Art practice

A New York–based studio at the intersection of art, technology, AI and visual culture.

Led by Jingyi Zhang, the studio explores how intelligence — human and artificial — can shape new forms of perception, storytelling and experience. The work spans AI-driven visual direction, generative systems, interactive installations and experimental image-making. @rainmelon.studio ↗

Awards

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  • Honorable Mention, Landscape PhotographyIMACRES Awards 2025
  • Honorable Mention, Fine Art — ConceptualND Awards 2025
  • Silver Award, MinimalismExposure One Awards
  • Award Winner, YPF Photo Award 2025Yakushima Photo Festival
  • Third Place, #50 “Shapes”All About Photo — AAP Magazine
  • Young Talent Award, PHOTOVILLE4600IPFO 2025, Olten, Switzerland
  • Shortlist AwardVisual Art Open 2025
  • Top 10 Winners, June & July ContestPhotogenic Mind
  • Merit Prize, Abstract PhotographyNAT Photo Society

Selected exhibitions

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  • “Pleasure Engineered”Accent Sisters, New York
  • “Photography Now”↗Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, Gimpo, KR
  • “When Blurry Memories Awaken”Nguyen Wahed Gallery, New York
  • “I Personally Believe that…”Not A Gallery, London
  • “Photoing”幻 Photism, Chengdu, China
  • “Pixelated Dreams”↗Accent Sisters, New York
  • “The 27” — Landscape ExhibitionA Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX
  • “Echos of Culture”Monad NYC, New York
  • Warehouse Market — New York EditionNew York
  • “Stillness”Allora Gallery, online
  • “Sky & Water”Praxis Gallery, St. Paul, MN
  • “Panoramas”Echos Studio Gallery, São Paulo
  • “Summertime Novel”Moon Gallery & Studio, Tokyo
  • “SQUARE XVIII”Decode Gallery, Tucson, AZ
  • “Still Echoing” — Vacuum WorldFlowing Space Gallery, New York
  • “Dialogue: Tree” — Circular Ground × Naturally OccurringLingliang Farm, Huzhou, China
  • Red Zone Underground — Vacuum WorldGate of Nine Dragons, Beijing
  • “The Portal of Nature” — Vacuum WorldBrooklyn Art Cave, New York
  • “Tranquillum” — Yonghe TempleGallerium, online
  • “The Peripheral Experiment” — Yugua IslandDongbuzhou, China
  • “Planting Verses Where the Wind Pauses”Yan Art Gallery, Hainan, China
  • “A World in Suspension”No. 103 Wulin New Village, Hangzhou
  • Film & Media Studies Academic ConferenceColumbia University, Lenfest Center for the Arts
  • “Fictional Landscape” — group exhibitionYachang Art Center, Beijing

Press and publications

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Let’s connect.

Have a project in mind, an opportunity to share, or just want to say hello? I’d love to hear from you. Thoughts on this website are always welcome, too.