Chun Hua Catherine Dong

Chun Hua Catherine Dong (she/they) is a Chinese born Montreal based artist working with performance, photography, video, VR and AR. Dong received an MFA at Intermedia from Concordia University and a BFA at Visual Art from Emily Carr University Art & Design in Canada. Dong has exhibited their works at The Musée d’Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne in France, Quebec City Biennial, MOMENTA | Biennale de l’image, Kaunas Biennial, Canadian Cultural Centre Paris, The Aine Art Museum in Tornio, Bury Art Museum in Manchester, Museo de la Cancillería in Mexico City, Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21, DongGong Museum of Photograph in South Korea, HuBei Museum of Fine Art in China, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Art Museum at University of Toronto, Art Gallery of Markham. Among many other grants and awards, Dong was the recipient of the Franklin Furnace Award for perfor- mance art in New York in 2014, listed the “10 Artists Who Are Reinventing History” by Canadian Art in 2017, and named “The Artist of the Year” at the DongGang International Photo Festival in South Korea in 2018. Dong was also a finalist for Contemporary Art Award at Le Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec ( Prix en art actuel du MNBAQ) 2020, and awarded with Cultural Diversity in Visual Arts Award by the Conseil des arts de Montréal in 2021.