Yewen Dong received her MFA in Ceramics from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2017 (SAIC), and a BA from the China Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2013. She has presented her work at the Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita; American Museum of Ceramic Art, California; Society for Contemporary Craft, Pennsylvania; Muskegon Museum of Art, Michigan; Mana Contemporary Chicago, Illinois; and Officine Saffi, Italy. She has received awards including the MacDowell Colony Fellowship, and the Anderson Ranch Arts Center Fellowship.