From her website, “My works span across contemporary jewelry, body jewelry, fashion art, sculpture, and conceptual installation, and contemporary jewelry is the primary medium of my current artistic research. I treat jewelry as a tool to explore the relationship between human bodies and their surrounding spaces as well as a visual language that is delivered to others without real words.”

Dongyi was born and raised in China. She is a contemporary jewelry artist and our current artist-in-residence. Dongyi received her Master’s Degree in Metal and Jewelry Design from Rochester Institute of Technology in New York and her Bachelor’s Degree in Jewelry Art Design from Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology in China and a Dual Degree in Fashion and Engineering from the same undergraduate school in China.

Dongyi shows her artwork nationally and internationally, such as JOYA 2020 in Barcelona and Schmuck 2018 in Munich, and recently presented her sixth solo exhibition Shadows of the Daylight, Glimmer of the Nighttime at the Clamp Light Studios & Gallery, in San Antonio, TX. Dongyi was one of the winners of Preziosa Young 2020 in Italy, a finalist for the Lydon Emerging Artist Program (LEAP award) in the United States in 2019, and a finalist for the ENJOIA’T 2017 Contemporary Jewellery Award in Spain in 2017.