Biography
Dong Jinling was born in Jiangsu, China in 1986. She graduated from Yunnan University with a major in art history and began practicing in 2010. Dong Jinling enjoys using simple but powerful art language to convey her tolerance and struggle toward social systems. In her works, Dong Jinling often uses herself as the subject, playing the monarch, general, and breeder through mediums including video, performance and painting. Her practice evokes through simple actions a poetry that goes beyond what we actually see, reaching out to our imagination through metaphors that all of us can comprehend.
Dong Jinling currently lives and works in Beijing.