DONG Yuxiang (born 1990, Wujiang, Jiangsu Province, China) is an art, educational, and social worker. His current practices and research are driven by the contradiction between ethnography in the Anthropocene and speculation of object-oriented ontology.
He received an Honorable Mention of the PhMuseum Photography Grant (2023) and was a longlist of The Lumen Prize for Art and Technology (2023) and a finalist of the Three Shadows Photography Award (2016). He has exhibited at Hermitage Museum & Gardens, Norfolk, VA (US), OCAT Institute, Beijing (China); Verzasca Foto, Canton of Ticino (Switzerland); Jakarta International Photo Festival, Jakarta, (Indonesia); PhMuseum Days, PhMuseum, Bologna (Italy); and other international venues. His documentaries and filmic works have been screened at Obskuur Ghent Film Festival (Belgium), Doc.Boston Documentary Film Festival (US), Stay Art Festival (China), and other global festivals.
He writes extensively at the nexus of art, technology, and society. His articles have been published in Leonardo, Photographies (forthcoming), Media-N, and other journals. In 2018, he was a recipient of the Joint Second Prize in the International Awards for Art Criticism. He has presented his research at Tate Liverpool, College Art Association Annual Conference, and other international institutions and conferences.
He has taught at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Cincinnati, Art Academy of Cincinnati, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Rochester Institute of Technology.
He holds a BFA in Photography from Beijing Film Academy, an MFA in Imaging Arts from Rochester Institute of Technology, and a PhD in Media, Art, and Text from Virginia Commonwealth University. His PhD dissertation entitled Repoliticizing the Depoliticized: Experimental Ethnography and Social Practice in Chinese Media Art received the highly ranked art and technology dissertation abstract (2022) by the Leonardo journal abstracts service.
Email: dong.yuxiang@outlook.com
Instagram: yuxiang_dong