Shanghai, China
B.1994
DAI Shengjie (b.1994 Jiangsu), 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 training across visual arts, theatrical design, and social sciences. Her practice examines obsolete objects discarded by global industrialization, non- degradable remnants, and the "afterlives of media" intimately tied to labor communities—reimagining electronic waste, plastic polymers, and industrial debris as Anthropocene "technofossils." Drawing from personal migration experiences and emotional memory, combined with field research at post-consumer waste hubs, the artist extends material narratives to trace the transformative journeys ofmatter.
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions/Projects
2025 Solo Project, Mater Museu, Barcelona, Spain (upcoming)
2025 “Signals That Never Land”, Arch Gallery, Shanghai
2021 “Coming Full Circle”, Paral Space, Hangzhou
Selected Group Exhibitions/Projects
2025 "The Great Schism: An Archaeology of Apocalyptic Futures”, Central Art Museum, Hangzhou
2025 “If a Fold Could Tremble the Ridge”, Third Street Gallery, Shanghai
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
2025 Artist Residency, Xiamen Airlines Headquarters, Xiamen
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”, LEAPMagazine (F/W 2024 Issue)
2023 “Smellscaping Guiyu”, Media-NJournal (Vol.19 No.1)
