Yu Mengtong

1996 Born in Beijing

2021 Graduated from the Academy of Art & Design, Tsinghua University, Department of Ceramic Art and Design with master’s degree
2018 Graduated from the Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University, Department of Ceramic Art and Design with bachelor’s degree

GROUP EXHIBITION

2021

39.9°N Phoenix Center 2021 Summer Art Season, Phoenix Center, No. 3, Chaoyang Park South Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China

Nest Planning - Zero Feminine Art+, zero art space, Beijing, China

Sci-Ficene Art and Science Concept Exhibition, No. 3 Steelmaking Furnace of Shougang Park, Shijingshan District, Beijing, China

Graduate Works Exhibition of Academy of fine arts of Tsinghua University, Art Museum of Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

2019

Prosper Guanci-ceramic Art Exhibition-The First Hengqin culture and Art Festival celebrating The 20^th Anniversary Of Macau’s Return, Lijun pangdu, No. 38, qinzheng Road, Hengqin new area, Zhuhai, Guangdong, China

Contemporary Ceramic Art in Asia, CAA Art Museum, Hangzhou, China

The 13th National Exhibition of Fine Art, Jingdezhen China Ceramic Museum,  Jiangxi, China

The Second Contemporary Ceramics Art Biennale (nomonated), Beijing Zhuzhong Art Museum, Beijing, China

“Blance De Chine” International Ceramic Art Grand Prix, A07 building, Beijing 798 Art Park, Beijing, China

The 2th Zero Feminine Art+, Nest Planning, Beijing 798, Zero Art Space, Beijing, China

2018

10th Anniversary of Ceramics - Wuhan International Ceramics Exhibition, Art Museum of Hubei Academy of Fine Arts, Wuhan, China

Contemporary Ceramic Art in Asia, HOMA of Hongyi University, Seoul, Korea

Conversations - Bai Ming and His Students on Chinese Ceramics, Museo Querini Stampalia, Venice, Italy

The Start of a Long Journey- Outstanding Works by Graduates of 2018 from Key Art Academies in China, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China

The 6th International Tea Culture Exchange Exhibition, Art Museum, Academy of fine arts, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

Exhibition of Graduation Works for Undergraduate, Academy of Tsinghua University, Art Museum of Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

2017

The 5th International Tea Culture Exchange Exhibition, Xi'an Xijing university, Shaanxi, China

"Shiwan Cup" Youth Pottery Competition, Guangdong Shiwan Ceramic Museum, Guangdong, China

Land, clay and life are infinitely related. Porcelain clay is a kind of purified dust and a new understanding of the land. People under the agricultural civilization are so easy to have emotional connection with the land. For example, when we take the high-speed railway, fields and graves are the main views along the way, but this is the most common connection between people and the land. We can also understand it as the way people choose to connect their own life with nature. Since my father's generation, I have never been to the place where my ancestral home is located. My blood has long been integrated with the blood from north and the south, and has grown and migrated in those unified metropolises. When there is no certain place outside, one’s inside is constant. Clay gives me a place to get on with myself. Both poles of clay lead to eternity: On the one hand, after firing, it becomes a solid existence that is both fragile and can experience time. On the other hand, it can return to the soil it comes from through self-destruction, with an irreversible extension like the life process and a "present" integrated into the eternal change.