Curriculum Vitae
Education
PhD candidate in Art, University of Edinburgh, UK
MRes in Arts & Humanities, Royal College of Art, UK
MFA in Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts, USA
BFA in Fine Arts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA
BA in Literature, Wuhan University, CN
Editorial Role
2026 Editor, Airea: Arts & Interdisciplinary Research (Peer-Reviewed Journal), UK
Collaborative & Commissioned Projects
2025-26 Collaborating Artist, SciArt Project, Cambridge Reproduction & Babraham Institute, University of Cambridge, UK
2024 Collaborating Artist, Developing Brain (Fusion: Art Meets Science),
Simons Initiative for the Developing Brain & Patrick Wild Centre, UK
2023 Invited artist, MRC Doctoral Training Partnership Symposium, King's College London, UK
Sculptor, Fengyi Bay Watertown Renovation, Sino-French Agri-tech Park, Sichuan, CN
2021-22 Character Illustrator, Blossoms of Her Selves (experimental theatre), Stage@Leeds, University of Leeds, UK
2021 Collaborating Artist, Art x Science (Wellcome/EPSRC CDT), King’s College London & Royal College of Art, UK
2020-21 Sculptor, Public Sculpture Design, Chengdu Xinchuan Foreign Language School, CN
Conference Presentations & Talks
2026 Paper Presentation, Materiality and the Making of Art, Rice University, USA
Poster Presentation (forthcoming), 26th Biennial Conference of the Asian Studies Association of Australia, AU
2024 Invited Speaker, Aesthetics and Modernity, Edinburgh Humanities Salon, UK
2022 Invited Speaker, King's Engaged Researcher Network (KERN), King’s College London, UK
Selected Exhibitions
Solo
2024 Tunes on the Breeze, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chengdu, CN
A Brief Repose of Blossoms, Third Avenue Art, Chengdu, CN
Group
2025 Contents May Vary, Art150 Gallery, Jersey City, USA
We Curated!, Art150 Gallery, Jersey City, USA
2024 Developing Brian, InSpace Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Outsider, Outline Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
BBA Online Exhibition, BBA Gallery, Berlin, DE
Neurological Science x Art, Neuroscience Day Expo, Edinburgh, UK
2023 Plant’s Imprints: Fragile Harmony, MRC Doctoral Training Partnership Symposium, King’s College, London, UK
Quite the Same, Yet Different, Xiang Arts, Chengdu, CN
ArtExpo New York, Pier 36, New York, USA
Pursuit, Patriothall Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
2022 Blossoms of Her Selves, Stage@Leeds, Leeds, UK
2021 In Utero, Art x Science, Science Museum, London, UK
ArtExpo New York, Pier 36, New York, USA
Art for Polar, Eco Young Creative Education, Harvard Innovation Labs, USA
Youth Day, Why Art Space, Chengdu, CN
The 6th Prints Touring Exhibition, China Engraving Art Museum, Shenzhen, CN
Between Cities, Cave Art Gallery of 515, Dazhou, CN
Isolation, San Mei Gallery, London, UK
A Fantastical Archeology, RCA Research Biennale, UK
2020 We Are Open, Starta Arta, New York, UK
2019 Now That’s What We Call Love, DCTV, New York, USA
4 by 4, SVA Chelsea Gallery, New York, USA
We-Artists (invited exhibition), Songcheng Contemporary Art Gallery, Chengdu, CN
2017 SAIC BFA Show, Sullivan Gallery, Chicago, USA
Ballroom Project, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
2016 ADAD, Art Acker of Berlin Mitte, Berlin, DE
Landscape, International Center for the Arts, Umbria, IT
Architecture & Design Exhibition, Art Center of Luxe Lakes, Chengdu, CN
Nature, Brickton Art Center, Chicago, USA
Teaching
2023 Tutor, Art in Community, Reid School of Music, University of Edinburgh, UK
2018 Teaching Assistant, Sculpture Foundation Class, School of Visual Art New York, USA
Grants & Awards
2024 Our Minds Fellowship, Edinburgh Neuroscience, UK
2023 Postgraduate Research Expenses (PRE) Grant, Edinburgh College of Art, UK
2022 Juries-selected Young Artist Promotion List, Sichuan Art, CN
2019 Rising Star, Saatchi Art, USA
2017-19 MFA Scholarship for Great Works, School of Visual Arts, USA
2015-17 Merit Scholarship for Excellent Portfolio, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA
2014 Gold Award (2D Artworks) in Future Artist Innovation Competition, Walt Disney, USA
2012 Gold Award in the Strings Category, 4th Hubei Province College Students Arts Festival, CN
2011 Fundamental Disciplines Scholarship, Wuhan University, CN
2010 First Prize in the Western Strings Category, Sichuan Province Art Talent Selection Competition, CN
Media & Publications
Interview with Wushuang Tong, Artsin Square Magazine, Issue 8, pp. 154–157, 2025
On the Physicality of Painting and Making Music with Wushuang Tong, Suboart Magazine, Volume 25, pp. 84-91, Lisbon, 2024
Successful opening night for ‘Developing Brain’ exhibition, Simons Initiative for the Developing Brain, 2024. Available at: https://www.sidb.org.uk/news-events/art-science-exhibition-the-developing-brain/
Tunes on the Breeze｜Wushuang Tong’s solo exhibition, YiMeiShu (One Fine Art), 2024. Available at: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/ABgpRMTPisVM1zEqEHLlvw
Neuroscience Day 2024, Fusion: Art Meets Science, 2024. Avaliable at: https://www.fusionartsci.co.uk/neuro-day-expo-2024
Wushuang Tong | Untamed Tangles by Wushuang Tong, Booooooom, 2024. Available at: https://www.booooooom.com/submissions/wushuang-tong-untamed-tangles/
Landscape into Home: Dwelling with Nature, Daguan Museum of Art, 2023. Available at: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/YS08ckhsSoUT5cg2TN2GMg
In Hot Pursuit of Art at Patriothall Gallery by Julie Boyne, ArtMag, 2023. Available at: https://artmag.co.uk/in-hot-pursuit-of-art-at-patriothall-gallery/
Emerging Artist Spotlight: Tong Wushuang, SichuanArt, 2022. Available at: https://www.sichuanart.com/newsitem/278504950
Beyond Definition: The Art, Craft, and Community of Ceramics by Diana McClure, Visual Arts Journal, Fall/Winter 2021, Volume 29, Number 2, pp. 40-45. Visual Arts Press, Ltd., 2021. Available at: https://sva.edu/features/beyond-definition-the-timeless-appeal-of-ceramic-art-2
Wushuang Tong: Creating a World Where Everything Remains Distant, Mysterious, and Romantic by Gui Xiong, Ace Youth Development Centre, 2021. Available at: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/e50JxcYTP8ATVpwpxWA1PA
Visuality Beyond Itself: Applying Synaesthesia to the Translation and Transformation of Music and Painting by Wushuang Tong, RCA Research Biennale, 2021. Available at: https://research-biennale.rca.ac.uk/projects/visuality-beyond-itself-applying-auditory-visual-synaesthesia-to-the-translation-and-transformation-of-music-and-painting
Between Art and Poetry，YiMeiShu (One Fine Art), 2021. Available at: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/oaYlgPxRu-LQhXY6641V3w
The World at Her Fingertips by Yiqiao Zhang, Songcheng Culture, 2019. Available at: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/T8q_QtvlM3Tt7D4j0c6MDw
Wushuang Tong: Emerging Artist by Len Gordon, Art Plugged, 2019, Available at: https://artplugged.co.uk/wushuang-tong-emerging-artists/
Tong Wushuang | Art Says: They Are the Source of Courage, Artron News, 2019. Available at: https://m-news.artron.net/news/20190415/n1338405.html
Selected Early Career Acitivities
2021 Arts Segment Planner and Host, Tsinghua Alumni Association of Greater New York x Wuhan University
Great New York Alumni Association, USA
2019 Invited Speaker, 10th Anniversary Documentary Premiere, Sino-USA Next Generation Education Foundation, USA
2018-19 Artwork Contributor, Sino-USA Next Generation Foundation, USA
Columnist, AXD Space Art Magazine, CN
2018 Soloist, Tsinghua Alumni Association of Greater NY x Wuhan University
Great New York Alumni Association, USA
2016 Performer, Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad, Chicago University, USA
Soloist, CSSA, Northwestern University, USA
2011-15 Cellist/Principle Cellist, Symphony Orchestra of Wuhan University, CN