Artist

Dai Ying, born in 1983 in Sichuan, China, currently resides in New York, Los Angeles, and Beijing. She began practicing Chinese calligraphy and traditional ink painting at the age of five, and dedicated herself full-time to art since 2011.

Dai Ying has constructed a spiritual training system profoundly connected with individual life experiences, with her artistic practice focusing on paradigm shifts in contemporary feminist power discourse. After transcending traditional gender dilemmas, she proposes that women should elevate from basic rights advocacy to the construction of a Geomaternal spiritual matrix —— breaking through binary oppositional logic to reconfigure societal energetic fields through spiritual dimensions that surpass hormonal constraints. Her theory emphasizes transcending biological limitations by manifesting earth-mother-like inclusiveness and creativity to achieve both familial genetic optimization and global civilizational transformation. Addressing the prevalent entrapment of contemporary masculinity in low-dimensional biological drives, Dai advocates for women to activate transformative wisdom of "maternal nourishment," elevating reproductive rights to civilizational production rights, thereby deconstructing patriarchal logic while forging new civilizational paradigms. This cognitive shift from rights defense to cosmic creation constitutes the core proposition of her artistic language.

Grounding her creation in geo-diasporic experiences, Dai Ying employs transmedia practices to critically reconstruct gender politics, desire mechanisms, and identity formation. Through deconstructing power topology within post-feminist and post-socialist theoretical frameworks, she establishes dialectical dialogue fields across cultural contexts, where ancestral memories intersect with techno-capitalist modernity to form multidirectional temporal-spatial configurations. Her works reveal the spiritual logic of civilizational reproduction through symbolic systems of "blood lineage-energy transmission," presenting the cosmic maternal principle as the ultimate resolution to anthropocentric alienation.

For a long time, Dai Ying, as a female artist, has rooted her artistic practice in the internal reflection and representation of individual identity. Her works delve into complex thoughts on gender, desire, and identity politics within her diaspora experiences. She reinterprets and engages in dialogue with feminist rights and post-socialism, drawing from her embodied perception of life experiences. Through various artistic media such as painting, installation, and performance art, she explores the entangled relationship between the individual and the broader metaphysical spiritual dimensions.

In a nutshell, rather than depicting the intangible sensory and spiritual realms, Dai Ying views her work as a means to infinitely approach forms of energy —— When her graphic visual works examine established order and disciplined aesthetic sentiments; her installation art and performance art build upon this foundation, aiming to open up a more expansive social discourse space.

Dai Ying's perception of art has always been diverse. Whether as a female artist or as a woman struggling in the social context, she has always carried multiple clues and completed her transformation through continuous practice in the process of dramatic change.