Artist Bio
DAI Shengjie 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."
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领域滋养。她近期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及与劳动力社区生活密切相关的“媒介来世”，将电子废料、塑料聚合物和工业残骸想象为人类世的“技术化石”。艺术家基于自身的迁徙经历与情绪记忆，结合对多个废旧材料集散地的田野调研，延展材料叙事，探讨“物”在其人为定义的使用价值消亡后，如何在环境负担与新价值创造的张力中重塑社群关系与文化形态，溯源物质世界的生命轨迹。
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibition/Projects
2025 solo project, Barcelona, Spain (upcoming)
2021 “DAI Shengjie: Coming Full Circle”, Paral Space, Hangzhou
Selected Group Exhibitions/Projects
2025 “Nowhere to Meet the Horse”, Ma Chang, Shanghai
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/Artwork Publications
2025 “Lunch on Treasure Island”, LEAP Magazine (F/W Issue)
2023 “Smellscaping Guiyu”, Media-N Journal (Vol.19 No.1)
CONTACT
Instagram: @daidai.1003
Email: shengjiedai@outlook.com