2019 LightScapes : Re-envisioning the Shanshuihua
Chinese American Museum, Los Angeles, CA Two person solo show
2018 Uneasy Beauty
Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton MA Juried group show
Matter – Antimatter
Mercury Twenty Gallery, Oakland CA Solo show
Diamond Sutra
Asia Modern Museum, Taichung, TAIWAN. Solo show
2 0 17 Circular Heaven – Square Earth
National Taichung Theater Solo show
Specular Reflection
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts Solo show
Spiritual Fluid
Mercury Twenty Gallery, Oakland CA Solo show
Longing Cloud
Cloud Gate Dance Company, Taipei TAIWAN Solo show
2 0 16 Patterns from Heaven & Earth – Artist Drawing Club
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA Solo show
On Model of Contemplation
San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA Solo show
2015 Cosmic Dance
Asia Modern Museum, Taichung, TAIWAN. Solo show
Disruption
Grounds For Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ Group show
California Now
Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA Group show
2014 Art Silicon Valley / San Francisco
San Mateo Event Center, San Mateo, CA Group show
I’m Your Man
Curated by Lauren Kalman and Milee Tibbs, explores the construction of masculine identity. ISE Cultural Foundation, New York City, NY Group show
2013 To come to knowledge you have not, you must go by a way in which you know not.
Michael Ku Gallery, Taipei, TAIWAN Solo show
2012 40 Under 40 – Craft Futures
Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
To celebrate the Renwick’s 40th anniversary in 2012, a major traveling exhibition will be mounted, which showcase the work of 40 artists born since 1972. Curated by Nicholas R. Bell Group show
2011 MOveMENT
California artists embracing the movements that define the Bay Area 724 Studios, San Francisco, CA Juried by Julie Muniz and Harriete Estel Berman Group show
2010 In the Loop
Space Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Curated by Chris Evans Multi-media group show
2008 Artitude 2008
KUNSTBANKEN Museum, Hamar, Norway Group show Curated by Esther Helen Slagsvold, features 20 metal artists from 13 different countries.
The Thinking Body
San Francisco Museum of Craft + Design, San Francisco, CA Curated by Kate Wagle and Anya Kivarkis. Group show
2007 In Situ
MASSART, Boston, MA
Curated by Joe Wood and Lisa Tung Group show
2006 Hyper Physical
Gears Tousignant Gallery, San Francisco, CA Solo show.
『 』Room 4 Treasures
Eslite Gallery, Taipei, TAIWAN Group show.
2005 Well Done – The Art in Design, The Design in Art
MOCA Taipei, Taipei, TAIWAN Group show.
Hairy Body
The Lab, San Francisco, CA. Inspired by the eroticization and fetishization of large hairy men, otherwise know as “bears”. Group show
2004 Confluence
Build Gallery, San Francisco, CA New works and installation base on the study of human connectivity. Solo show
2003 Cheongju International Craft Biennial 2003
Cheongju Arts Center, Cheongju City, Korea Group show
2002 University of Oregon MFA exhibition 2002
PNCA Gallery, Pacific Northwest Collage of Art Portland, Oregon 2002 MFA student graduation group show
1996 BFA Graduation Exhibition
Sun Yat Sen Memorial Hall, Taipei, Taiwan Group show
1993 Dedicated to Age Twenty
Association of Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan Solo show
Awards/Publications/ Scholarships
2019 Artist Lecture for Maine College of Art.
2018 MainStage Speaker for 2018 Society of North American Goldsmith Conference in Portland, OR.
2016 Keynote Speaker for 2016 The Seattle Metals Guild Symposium
2016 Maker Faire Bay Area 2016, Five Editor’s Choice Awards
2015 The Mend-Smith Project, “Space of Production” an AIR program in CCCD Asheville, NC
2015 Awarded best in show in Enamel from CALIFORNIA NOW exhibition at Richmond Art Center
2014 Feature on KQED’s The California Report radio program.
2014 Feature on 7×7 Magazine on December issue.
2013 Feature exhibition on Business Weekly of Taiwan July issue.
2013 Featured on Metalsmith Magazine 2013 June issue, article by Brett Levine
2008 Fabled Adornment series collected by National Museum of Norway
2004 Selected from a juried competition by Lard Books “1000 RINGS” and was referenced inside the covers.
2004 Confluence, new works and installation by Nick Dong” was presented on the DateBook of San Francisco Chronicle.
2003 Interviewed by CBS’s Evening Magazine about the “10 Rings” class taught in The Crucible.
2003 Awarded “Special Citation” from Cheongju International Craft Biennial 2003
2002 “Metalsmith Magazine” 2002 Juried exhibition in print with special mention in the Jury Roundtable.
2001 Graduate Teaching Fellowship, Art department faculty nominated merit scholarship, University of Oregon.
1996 Class Valedictorian, Fine Art Department’s top graduating senior in Tunghai University
1994 Chinese Calligraphy Scholarship
1993 San Cai Art Foundation Scholarship for Young Artist
Education
2009 Northern California Public Art Academy
2002 MFA: Metalsmithing and Jewelry. University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA
1996 BFA: Mixed Medias and Paintings. Tung-Hai University, Taichung, TAIWAN
Professional Experience
2016- Stevenson Street San Francisco Artistic Improvement Project – Project Manger
2013- studioDONG – Founder / Chief Creative Officer
2011- 2017 City of Oakland Cultural Affairs Commission, Public Art Advisory Committee (Co-Chair 2014-2017)
2008- 2014 California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA Instructor – Senior Project
2006 Samovar Tea Lounge, San Francisco, USA – Art Director
2005 Taipei 101 President Office, Taipei, Taiwan – Art Consultant / Feature Artist
2004-2010 Mart Tiller Corp, Taipei, Taiwan – Furniture Department Design Manager
2004 Musée Tomo, Tokyo, Japan – Exhibition Object Display Fabricator
I am a hybrid of conventional and unconventional, past and future, East and West. As a Taiwanese-American, I identify myself as a 21st-century continuation of Wen-ren 文人, the Chinese cultural lineage of intellect-scholars, in which each work is a quest of self evolution, a vehicle of sharing philosophy. By carefully integrating scientific and handcrafted components, supernatural movements, light, sound, and various interactive or situational strategies, my work produces a fully immersive event, only complete once a viewer steps into the space and an encounter is initiated.
