House of Egorn

b. 1989, Changsha, China; lives and works in London.

Dai’s practice hinges on the balance between order and chaos. Her works are the final form of planned and regulated processes that create the conditions for material and chance to interact and create their own images. Her works are made up of a language or code which when deciphered, reveal stories told through the materials themselves.
After attending Kenyon College in Ohio, USA, Dai received the Mona Hatoum scholarship to attend Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London. Shortly after graduating she was selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Tate Modern Creative Challenge, and the Louis Vuitton Commission.

EXHIBITIONS

2016
Ibero-American Arts Award Exhibition, Embassy of Brazil, London, UK (group)
Misfits, Offcuts, and Castaways, House of Egorn, Berlin, Germany (solo)

2015
British Contemporary Art Auction, Morten Casa de Subastas, Mexico City (group)
Jabberwocky, Ab/Anbar Gallery, Tehran (group)
A Sequence of Nows, Display Gallery, London (group)
Mapping in Memories, House of Egorn, Berlin (group)
Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall (group)

2014
Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), London (group) World Museum, National Museum Liverpool, Liverpool (group)

2013
Camouflage, ArtKapsule at Koleksiyon Furniture London Showroom, London (duo)
Central Saint Martins MA Degree Show, CSM Kings Cross Granary Building, London (group)
Plan.Open Super Scale, Arbeit Gallery, London (group)

2012
Threadneedle Prize Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London (group)
Obsession, Louis Vuitton New Bond Street Maison, London (group)
Central Saint Martins MA Fine Art Interim Show, V22, London (group)

2011
Beacons: An Exhibition of Luminous Art, Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, Michigan (group)




AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS

2014 Bloomberg New Contemporaries, UK
2012 Kusama Obessesion Creative Challenge, Tate Collectives in partnership with REcreativeUK.com, London
2011 Mona Hatoum Scholarship, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London
2010 Robert H. Hallstein Memorial Award, Kenyon College, Ohio

TEXTS & PUBLICATIONS

2016
Julia Grass, Exhibition Review: Bunte Farben auf Bomben, Die Welt Kompakt, (Issue 83, 29.04.2016): page 10-11 and online: http://www.welt.de/print/welt_kompakt/kultur/ar ticle154861317/Bunte-Farben-auf-Bomben.html
Brigitte Werneburg, Exhibition Review: Das Feuer ist der Anfang vom Ende, taz die Tages zeitung (Issue 11021, 19.05.2016): page 24
Travis Jeppeson, artforum: http://artforum.com/?pn=picks§ion=de
Lily Kelting, Interview: http://www.nprberlin.de/post/life-berlin-gallery-wee kend-2016#stream/0, 13.05.2016
Artnews, Artlyst: http://www.artlyst.com/articles/londons-yi-dai-to-exhibit-at-house-of- egorn-berlin-during-gallery-weekend, 23.04.2016
Artron: Berlin Gallery Weekend 2016 Kicks Off Big-Time: http://en.artron.net/news/news. php?newid=834987, 2016
Eva Kaczor, Artberlin, GALLERY WEEKEND MUST-SEE: YI DAI AT HOUSE OF EGORN: http://www.artberlin.de/gallery-weekend-berlin-yi-dai/, 4.2016
CCTV News (English Channel): http://english.cntv.cn/2016/05/03/VIDEenRY28gjQ kuWSz91DSjO160503.shtml?from=singlemessage&isappinstalled=0, 3.5.2016

2015
Hannah Ellis-Petersen, Berlin‘s Gallery Weekend: a heady maze of former warehouses and power plants: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/may/03/berlins-gallery-wee kend-a-heady-maze-of-former-warehouses-and-power-plants, 3.5.2015
Widewalls, http://www.widewalls.ch/artist/yi-dai/, 2015

2014
Aesthetica, Exhibition of Bloomberg New Contemporaries: World Museum, Liverpool: http://www.aestheticamagazine.com/exhibition-bloomberg-new-contemporaries-wor ld-museum-liverpool/, 11.9.2014
HuffingtonPost, Selectors and Selectees: What We Can Learn from the Turner Prize and Bloomberg New Contemporaries: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mutualart/selectors- and-selectees-w_b_6306846.html, 12.11.2014
Ben Luke: Bloomberg New Contemporaries, ICA - exhibition review: http://www.stan dard.co.uk/goingout/exhibitions/bloomberg-new-contemporaries-ica-exhibition-re view-9897925.html, 2.12.2014

EDUCATION

2011 - 2013 MA Fine Art, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, UK BA (Cum Laude / Distinction
2006 - 2010 Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio
2009 USA Exchange studies in architecture and design, Copenhagen, Denmark