Coraline (Jingyan) Weng

 


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Coraline (Jingyan) Weng


Coraline (Jingyan) Weng’s artistic practice investigates the intersections of urban cohesion, group psychology, and the transformative effects of digital expansion within mainland China. Drawing from her background in environmental design, Weng enriches her exploration of how collective social dynamics influence individual identity, culture, memory, and trauma. Her work often takes shape through the collage of objects, repurposed digital imagery, and immersive installations that challenge perceptions of space and context.

While her practice spans sound, video, and the integration of food, sculpture remains her preferred medium. The material versatility, structural potential, and spatial permanence—or impermanence—of sculpture provide an ideal vehicle for her self-expression. This medium also reflects her struggle to interpret the influence of her closely bound culture and government on her people, her identity, and her capacity to create art within a contemporary context.

Through her work, Weng offers a poignant reflection on the complexities of modern existence, using art as both a critical lens and a space for transformative engagement.


Coraline (Jingyan) Weng is an interdisciplinary artist working in sounds, video, sculpture, installation, and food, based in New York. She was born in Fuzhou, Fujian, China, in 1996. She holds an  MFA from the Parsons School of Design and a BFA in Environmental Design from Nanjing Forestry University, China. She had her first solo show, Yes!! , at 4’33’ Art Space, Guangzhou, China. Other exhibitions include 4” from the wall, 25 East Gallery, New York; Concert Exhibition: Collaborating Artists, Stiefel Hall, New York. Coraline’s background in environmental design serves to supplement the crux of her creative interests, which lay somewhere in the crossroads of urban unity, group psychology, and the new effects of digital expansion in mainland China. Currently, she is focusing on the factors that alter the character of individuals, more specifically, identity, culture, memories, and trauma. 


Education


2014-2018 
Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, China
BFA, Environmental Design


2018 - 2020
Parsons school of Design, The New School
MFA, Fine Arts 


Solo Exhibitions



2017 Yes!!, 4’33’ Art Space, Guangzhou China.


Group Exhibitions


2019 Concert Exhibition: Collaborating Artists, Stiefel Hall, NY, USA

4” from the wall , 25 East Gallery, NY, USA

2017 Special Topic Design Exhibition, Environmental Design Department, NFU

2016 Space Modeling Exhibition, Environmental Design Department, NFU.