Born in 1973, Taipei, Taiwan, Nick Dong is an interdisciplinary artist currently living and working in California, USA. He received his BFA in Mixed Media and Painting from Tunghai University (Taichung) in 1996, and earned his MFA in Metalsmithing in Jewelry from the University of Oregon in 2002. Dong’s practice spans mixed-media sculpture, wearable objects, and immersive installations. His works seamlessly integrate precision engineering, metalwork, sound, light, and interactive mechanisms, inviting viewers into deeply sensorial and transformative experiences. For Dong, an artwork is only complete when it is activated by the viewer—each encounter becoming a fully realized artistic event.

Since the early 1990s, Dong’s work has garnered international recognition and has been widely exhibited across galleries and museums in both Taiwan and the United States. In 2003, he was selected for the Cheongju Craft Biennale in South Korea. In 2008, he participated in “Artitude 2008” at Kunstbanken Hedmark Kunstsenter in Hamar, Norway, as one of only twenty invited metal artists from thirteen countries. In 2012, he was featured in the “40 Under 40: Craft Futures” exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, recognized as one of forty emerging talents under the age of forty born after 1972.

In 2016, Dong was invited by the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco to exhibit his large-scale mixed-media installation “Patterns from Heaven and Earth”. In 2017, the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts held a solo exhibition of his work titled “Specular Reflection”. In 2021, the USC Pacific Asia Museum presented a retrospective solo exhibition “Divine Immersion: The Experiential Art of Nick Dong”, and in the same year, he was invited to participate in “GLOW”, a light-based exhibition at the Exploratorium in San Francisco.

Dong’s work has been featured in numerous media outlets and publications, including CBS’s “Evening Magazine”, “7x7” San Francisco, KQED’s “The California Report”, and the professional journal “Metalsmith”. His artworks are part of major public collections, including the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, the National Taichung Theater, and the Asia University Museum of Modern Art.