Recent News
Baby’s first art grant! Excited to share the news about my Individual Artist Fellowship from California Arts Council, in collaboration with LA Performance Practice.
Beyond Garden on the cover of 生活
LIFE Magazine China, March 2022
Written by Jiaoyang Li, Edited by Jin Jin Xu
LA DESIGN FESTIVAL 2020
VIRTUAL LIGHT + SOUND INSTALLATION
BEYOND.GARDEN
A collaboration between Studio Dyan Jong, floorkids.studio, and Nick Gregg
Poetry by Carlina Duan, Jiaoyang Li, and JinJin Xu
Dyan Jong creates light installation art endemic to Los Angeles, repurposing film lights to create large scale, immersive temporalities. The film lights are a nod to her origins as an image-maker in music + entertainment and are never hidden, but openly present, to acknowledge their role in shaping Hollywood "movie magic". Light is no longer used to create an image for consumption but transformed into a lived experience for the audience, to encounter + document themselves on "set" as both consumers + creators.
-photos thanks to Driely S.
SPECTRUM (2023)
June 23, 2023
Coming soon
LA Design Festival 2023, THE ROW DTLA
Video thanks to Jane Kok
PROTOTYPE II (2022)
December 28, 2022
Proof of concept
At-home research and small scale prototyping
December 31, 2021
Proof of concept
At-home research and small scale prototyping
October 15, 2020
Coming soon
El Mirage Dry Lake Bed, Adelanto, CA
September 24, 2020 - present
Collaboration with Aaron Santiago, Lucy Yao, Nick Gregg
Poetry by Jin Jin Xu, Jiaoyang Li, Carlina Duan
LA Design Festival, http://beyond.garden
July 5, 2020
Proof of concept
At-home research and small scale prototyping
February 8, 2020
Collaboration with Richard Tranley
SGV Lunar New Year Festival x Dopium
San Gabriel Mission Playhouse, San Gabriel, CA
June 23, 2019
LA Design Festival x Dopium RE:PURPOSE
LA Plaza Village, Los Angeles
Video thanks to Tara Wucjik
August 30 - September 2, 2018
626 Night Market Art Programming
Santa Anita Race Track, Arcadia, CA
June 9, 2018
Collaboration with Eva Kang
LA Design Festival x Dopium Dimensions
A+D Museum, Los Angeles
November 4, 2017
Dopium LA
Mandarin Plaza, Chinatown, Los Angeles
CV
SOLO SHOWS
2020 WELCOME - El Mirage Dry Lake Bed, Adelanto, CA
GROUP SHOWS
2023 SPECTRUM - LA Design Festival 2023 - The ROW DTLA, Los Angeles, CA
2020 BEYOND.GARDEN - LA Design Festival [Offsite], Los Angeles, CA
2020 AUTONOMY - SGV Lunar New Year Festival, Dopium - San Gabriel Mission Playhouse, San Gabriel, CA
2019 ARASHI Exhibition: JOURNEY, LA gifs - Sony Music Roppongi Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2019 SIGNAL - LA Design Festival, Dopium RE:PURPOSE - LA Plaza Village, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Photogenics Art Book Vol 3 group exhibition - Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, CA
2018 ARRIVAL - 626 Night Market - Santa Anita Racetrack, Arcadia, CA
2018 FILE Festival GIF - Sao Paolo, Brazil
2018 TRANSCEND - LA Design Festival, Dopium Dimensions - A+D Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2017 RESILIENCE - Dopium LA - Mandarin Plaza, Chinatown, Los Angeles, CA
2017 SHOOTERS - Treason Gallery, Seattle, WA
2014 Eyebeam-Off-The-Grid LittleNets gif.local - Governor’s Island, NY
PRESS AND PUBLICATIONS
2023 your guide for the must-see events at LA design festival 2023
2022 LIFE Magazine China March 2022
2021 The Laterals 06: In Conversation with Dyan Jong
2018 Photogenics Art Book Vol 3
2018 The Laterals 01 “A Portrait of a Trip”
2018 The Fader “Artist Dyan Jong Moves Time With Light”
2015 Photogenics Artbook Vol 2