Artist Bio
戴圣杰 (b.1994) 是一位跨学科艺术家，目前生活和工作于上海。她在美国纽约大学获得硕士学位，本科在美国史密斯女子学院和哥伦比亚大学学习，受视觉艺术、戏剧设计和社会科学等多个领域滋养。她的创作关注全球工业化进程中被淘汰的旧物、无法分解的残余元素以及与劳动力社区生活密切相关的“媒介来世”。艺术家结合个人的迁徙经历、离散身份与情绪记忆，通过对废旧材料集散地的经济劳动、社区生活和基础设施进行田野调研，延展材料叙事，探讨“物”在其人类定义的使用价值消亡后，如何带来环境负担或创造新价值，进而塑造出新的社群和文化。她的作品常通过与食物在人体新陈代谢中的转化相呼应，溯源物质世界的变迁与流动。近期，她获选为“UCCA Young Associates年度选择奖”入围艺术家。
DAI Shengjie (b.1994), currently lives and works in Shanghai, China. Dai holds a Master’s Degree from New York University and pursued her undergraduate studies at Smith College and Columbia University, with a diverse educational background spanning visual arts, theatrical design, film theories, economics, and more. Recently, her work has focused on extending narratives through materials, combining her experiences of migration and emotional memories. She is particularly interested in used objects from the global industrialization process, non-metabolizable elements, and the “afterlife of media” closely related to the lives of labor communities. Her work aims to explore the fate of objects after her human-defined utility has expired, investigating the environmental burdens and new values they may generate. Her creations resonate with everyday landscapes, tracing the transformations and flows within the material world. Recently, she was shortlisted for the "UCCA Young Associates’ Choice Awards."
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibition/Projects
2025 29th Drap Art International, Barcelona, Spain (upcoming)
2021 “DAI Shengjie: Coming Full Circle”, Paral Space, Hangzhou
Selected Group Exhibitions/Projects
2024 “52 Hertz”, TX Huaihai, Shanghai
2024 Tank Art Festival, Tank, Shanghai
2023 “Hyundai Blue Prize Art+Tech Award 2023: Metamorphic Ecosphere“, Hyundai Motorstudio, Beijing
2023 “Art Jingyang 2023”, Art Nova 100, Chengdu
2023 “Signature Move”, Y Space, Shanghai
2023 “Stairways”, Once Gallery, Shanghai
2023 “Metaphor of the Food”, Ultramontane, Hangzhou
2022 “Blooming Shanghai”, GUCCI & Wallpaper, Shanghai
2022 “A Response to 59th Venice Biennial”, No Space, Online
2022 “Fifty Shades of Nuan”, Once Gallery, Beijing
2021 Art Nova 100 Annual Exhibition, Guardian Art Center, Beijing
2021 “Ongoing Mystical Experiment”, Untitled Space, Shanghai
2020 “July Virtual”, Greenpoint Gallery, New York
2020 “Artists and Archive”, The Museum of Chinese in America (MoCA), New York
2019 Select Alumni Exhibit, Jannotta Gallery, Massachusetts
Artist Residencies
2023 MA CHANG Artist in Residence, Ma Chang, Shanghai
2023 AURUA Artist Residency Program, Alila Yangshuo, Guilin
2021 Artist in Residence Program, Untitled Space, Shanghai
Awards
2024 UCCA Young Associates’ Choice Awards Shortlist, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
2021 Selected artist for “Art Nova 100”, Guardian Art Center, Beijing
Academic Publications
2023 “Smellscaping Guiyu”, Media-N Journal (Vol.19 No.1)
CONTACT
Instagram: @daidai.1003
Email: shengjiedai@outlook.com