Jiangliu Dong

Biography

Jiangliu Dong is a multidisciplinary artist and jeweler whose practice moves between metal, body, technology and language. She received a B.A. in jewelry design from the Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, where she built a foundation in traditional craft and design, and later earned an M.F.A. in jewelry and metalsmithing from the Rhode Island School of Design. Her work dwells at thresholds where identity, memory and connection shift and where presence and absence intertwine.

Beginning with contemporary jewelry, her practice has expanded into sculpture, installation, video, digital art, performance and writing. Dong’s work is a meditation on liminality—on what lies betwixt and between. She often blurs the line between fiction and reality, self and other. Engaging text as material, she builds creative translations that thread through objects and performances, reshaping language itself into gesture, body and form. Her works become containers for both silence and voice, memory and forgetting, offering audiences a glimpse into the fragile yet resilient poetics of becoming.

Dong’s work has been exhibited internationally, including in Beijing, Guangzhou, Leipzig, New York and Providence. It has been featured in solo and group exhibitions such as “Interaction-Innovation—2011 International Exhibition of Metal Art” at the Beijing World Art Museum; the “2018 Emerging Jewelry Artists Invitation Exhibition Trans‑Edition” at Craft Gallery, Guangzhou, China; “Also—Jewelry in Contemporary Art” in Beijing; and the “2022 Current Obsession—Munich Jewellery Week,” special poster “Daydreams.” She has participated in residencies and exhibitions in Ireland, Germany and the United States. Her work has appeared in juried shows including the Society of North American Goldsmiths Conference juried exhibition “Adorned Spaces” and the D’Art Center wearable arts exhibition.

Her work is also included in publications such as Metalsmith—Society of North American Goldsmiths (2017) and Contemporary Chinese Jewelry Design (2020, Schiffer Publishing). In 2017, she co-curated the group exhibition “Also—Jewelry in Contemporary Art” in Beijing’s 751 Art District.

Education

• M.F.A., Rhode Island School of Design
• B.A., Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology