Person
Artist
Dong Yuan
董媛
Date of birth
1984
Place Of birth
Huatong, Liaoning, China
Biography
Born in China’s north-eastern Liaoning Province in 1984, but spending much of her childhood with her grandparents in Dalian, Dong Yuan graduated from the Experimental Arts Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2008. She applies a meticulous illusionist technique to paintings on separate small canvases that are placed together to make up ambitious installations, recording aspects of memory and a changing world. Dong Yuan lives and works in Beijing.