Photo Credit: Lin Wang
Contact
For studio visits, exhibitions, commissions, press, styling, or other inquiries, please contact:
Email: dongyiwu.jewelry@gmail.com
Instagram: @dongyi.w or @dongyiwu.wearable.systems
About Dongyi Wu
Dongyi Wu is a Chinese-born artist currently based in Bakersville, North Carolina, United States. Working across wearable art, soft sculpture, and image-based practice, Wu creates body-related sculptural works that move between the body, wall, image, and space. Her practice grows out of fashion design, metalsmithing, and art jewelry, combining metal structures with fabric, found objects, recycled materials, and textile processes. Balancing volume and lightness, her works use the body as an activating structure rather than as a site of decoration.
Wu is currently an artist-in-residence at Penland School of Craft. She has recently completed artist residencies at Houston Center for Contemporary Craft in Houston, Texas; University of Arkansas at Little Rock in Little Rock, Arkansas; Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg, Tennessee; and Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Wu received her MFA in Metal and Jewelry Design from Rochester Institute of Technology in the United States, her BA in Jewelry Art Design from Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology in China, and a dual degree in Fashion Design and Engineering from the same institution.
Wu’s work has been shown nationally and internationally, including at JOYA 2020 in Barcelona and Schmuck 2018 in Munich. In 2025, she presented her eighth solo exhibition, Golden Age, at Pratt Institute’s Steuben Gallery in Brooklyn, New York, during NYC Jewelry Week. Her work has been featured in New Brooches: 400+ Contemporary Jewellery Designs and Chinese Contemporary Jewelry Design. She was one of the winners of the Preziosa Young Design Competition 2020 in Italy, a finalist for the Lydon Emerging Artist Program Award in the United States in 2019, and a finalist for the ENJOIA’T Contemporary Jewellery Award in Spain in 2017.
Education
Rochester Institute of Technology, MFA of Metals and Jewelry Design
Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, BA of Jewelry Art Design
Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, Dual degree of Fashion Design and Engineering
Selected Recent Residencies
March 2026- February 2027, Resident Artist, Penland School of Craft, Penland, NC, US
March 2025- November 2025, Artist Residency, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX, US
November 2024, Artists-in-Residence, Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Little Rock, AR, US
August 2024-December 2024, Extra Help/Windgate Artist in Residence, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AR, US
June 2024-July 2024, National Artists-in-Residence, Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh, PA, US
June 2023-May 2024, Artist-in-Residence, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN, US
May 2023-June 2023, One-Month Emerging Artist Residency, Baltimore Jewelry Center, Baltimore, MD, US
Solo Exhibitions
2026 Lands’ Brooches, Box 13 Artspace, Houston, TX, US
2025 Golden Age, Pratt Institute in the Steuben Gallery, NYC Jewelry Week, NYC, NY, US
2024 Whispers of the Night, Focus Gallery of University of Arkansas in Little Rock, Little Rock, AR, US
2024 Shadows of the Daylight, Glimmer of the Nighttime, Clamp Light Studios & Gallery, San Antonio, TX, US
2021 Passerby, A-Galerii, Tallinn, Estonia
2020 Where is the Abandoned Salmon Strip? Taidekeskus Itä Gallery, Lappeenranta, Finland
2019 Daily Notes, Equinox Gallery, San Antonio, TX, US
2019 Lucid Dreams, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX, US
2018 Wandering in Deep Deep Dreams, Gallery R, Rochester, NY, US