Meng Du
Born in 1986 in Beijing, Meng Du graduated from the Graphic Design program of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing (B.F.A.) in 2008 and the Department of Glass and Glass Sculpture Program of RochesterInstitute of Technology (M.F.A.) in 2013. Currently, she is living and working in Beijing. Her work has continued to exhibit in China, Europe, and in the U.S.A., including Victoria and Albert Museum, London (2025); Shanghai Museum of Glass, Shanghai (2023); Genesis Foundation, Beijing (2022); Today Art Museum, Beijing (2021); The Delaware Contemporary, U.S.A. (2020); Fou Gallery, New York (2025/2022/2019/2016); Shanghai Museum of Glass, Shanghai (2018) and The International Exhibition of Glass Kanazawa at Shiinoki Cultural Complex, Ishikawa Prefecture Japan (2016). Meng’s solo show at Fou Gallery (2016) signifies the debut of her artistic career, marking her inaugural solo exhibition. She served as a residency artist at Seto International Ceramic & Glass Art Exchange Program, Seto, Japan (2021) and Aichi University of Education Glass Program, Aichi, Japan (2017). Her work has been widely featured in China Daily, People’s Daily, Cosmopolitan, Vogue, Yitiao, Art China, CAFA Art Info, and other media platforms. She was invited to give lectures at TEDTalk (2024), YiXi (2020) and ROG International Art Project Online Symposium (2020). In 2016, she won the Honorable Mention for The International Exhibition of Glass Kanazawa (Kanazawa, Japan). In 2018, she won the 2018 Saxe Emerging Artist Award at 48th Glass Art Society Conference (Venice, Italy). She is the youngest artist who presented a solo exhibition at the Shanghai Museum of Glass. Her work is in the permanent collection of Burberry (Shanghai), Corning Glass Works (Shanghai), Shanghai Museum of Glass, Zhuzhong Collection (Beijing) and Victoria and Albert Museum (London).
Meng Du is interested in preserving memories and keeping a record of them so they do not fade overtime. With a natural instinct to extract meaning from narrative, she also wants to show memories in decay, as a way of memorializing them and showing the process of their slow disappearance from our consciousness. She incorporates the drawings and found objects, which come from her personal life experience into the surface treatment and imaging techniques of glass. To represent the nostalgic feeling and memories of certain time and places that she does not want to let go of.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2025
Meng Du: In the woods, might be late, Fou Gallery, New York, USA
2024
Meng Du: Drift Orbit, Ferris Gallery, Shenzhen, China
2023
Meng Du: Shadow of Day, Shadow of Night, Fou Gallery, New York, USA
2022
Meng Du: Echo from the Highland, Genesis Foundation, Beijing, China
2020
Shimmer: Meng Du Glassware Show, Cabana, Beijing, China
2019
Meng Du: Embers, Fou Gallery, New York, USA
2018
Meng Du: The Room, Shanghai Museum of Glass, Shanghai, China
2016
Meng Du: The Climb, The Fall, Fou Gallery, New York, USA
2013
Meng Du: Remembrance, RochesterInstitute of Technology NTID Gallery, Rochester, New York, USA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025
Dimensions: Contemporary Chinese Studio Crafts, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Fragments Recollected(organized by Ferris Gallery and One Atelier), One Atelier, Beijing, China
2024
Outside Inside: Meng Du and Peng Xiao, Lens Gallery, Beijing, China
2023
Take a Break, Fou Gallery, New York, USA
Another knowledge of Tea, Another knowledge of Thee, Ferris Gallery, Shenzhen, China
International Festival of Glass, Gallery S12, Somerset House, London, UK
2022
My Flower Doesn't Have A Name Yet, Shanghai Museum of Glass, Shanghai, China
Gone with the Wind: Glass Art Exhibition, Landblink, Shanghai, China
Art: Through the Window: Contemporary Art and Design, One Atelier, Beijing, China
Art Encounter and Foresight: A Contemporary Art Exhibition Recommended by Collectors, Blanc Art
Group, Beijing, China
Crafting the Past from the Future, Fou Gallery, New York,USA
2021
Theme: Origins of Life, curated by Song Art Museum, FNJI Indigo Store, Beijing, China
Diversity Natural History Exhibition on Arts of Nature & Science, IMS of Modern Artland, Beijing, China
Finding Hidden Genius: Vivian Maier, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
2020
Blazing Element, An+ Art & Design Center, Shenzhen, China
2019
Mind the Gap, The Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, Delaware
Four Types of Summer, KMW artcenter, Beijing, China
2018
Looking Ahead Gazing Downward 2018 International Art and Design Invitation Exhibition, Bao Shan Museum, Shanghai, China
2017
VATALITY: The 3 rd New Crafts, International Emerging Artists Group Exhibition & Symposium,Shanghai, China
GFAA 2017, Guardian Art Center, Beijing, China
2016
Tianyuan IGAF 2016 Glass & Ice, Tianyuan Glass Museum, Huailai, Hebei, China
I Glass 2016, Levant Art Gallery, Shanghai, China
The International Exhibition of Glass Kanazawa, Kanazawa, Japan
2015
Flow Grow, 2015 Qingdao Contemporary Glass Art Exhibition, Qingdao, China
In-visibilia, Gallery 1975, Rochester, New York, China
2014
Material from the Heart, EGG Gallery, Beijing, China
Young & Loving!, S12 Gallery, Bergen,Norway
4&1, University Gallery, RochesterInstitute of Technology, Rochester, New York, USA
Unexpected Imagery, Gallery R, Rochester, New York, USA
2012
The Creative Process: from Ideation to Realization, Gallery R, Rochester, New York, USA
PUBLIC/CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Burberry, Shanghai
Corning Glass Works, Shanghai
Shanghai 21st Century Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai
Shanghai Museum of Glass, Shanghai
Zhuzhong Art Museum, Beijing
The Victoria and Albert Museum, London
CORPORATE COMMISSION
Burberry
Salvatore Ferragamo
AWARDS
2018
Saxe Emerging Artist Lecture Presentation, 48th Glass Art Society Conference, Murano, Italy
2016
Honorable Mention, The International Exhibition of Glass Kanazawa 2016, Shiinoki Cultural Complex, Ishikawa Prefecture, Kanazawa
2014
Third Place Award, 43rd Annual Glass Art Society International Student Exhibition, Palmer House,Chicago
2012
Third Place Award, 42nd Annual Glass Art Society International Student Exhibition, SeaGate Convention Center, Toledo
2008
1st Prize of Graduation Project, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing,