Within Its Place and Time. Place

2020
unfired clay, oil, acrylic paint, tape on cardboard
110 x 130 cm

About the artist

Yewen Dong was born in 1989 in Shenzhen, a relatively young Chinese coastal city. Yewen is a nomadic artist who lived in Beijing for eight years and in the US for four, and now lives in Jingdezhen, the porcelain capital of China. In 2013 she graduated in Art and Design from the China Central Academy of Fine Arts, continuing her education at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). she works with many different visual languages: ceramics, drawing, sculpture and video. She was shortlisted at the third edition of the Officine Saffi Award (Milan), she has exhibited her work in various institutions and museums including the American Museum of Ceramic Art, CA; Society for Contemporary Craft, PA; Muskegon Museum of Art, MI; and Mana Contemporary Chicago, IL.