Angel Dan Rong is a multidisciplinary artist based between Oxford and London. She completed her BA (hons) in Fine Art at the University of the Arts London-Central Saint Martins and along a six-month BFA (de) Fine Art exchange at Willem de Kooning Academy. She is currently pursuing an MFA at the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford.
Working across sculptures, installations, performances, imageries and sound, her practice explores nonhuman-human relationships, Sympoiesis, posthuman relationality and uneven coexistence.
Having lived in China, Australia, the Netherlands, and the UK, her diverse experiences inspire a continuous exploration of the nonhuman lifeforms that surrounds us. Angel unfolds ways of existing within and beyond habitual relationships with other lifeforms, creating immersive spaces that invite awareness of the present moment. Her practice entails motion, spontaneity, contingency, personal experiences, and uneven ethics–revealing shifting power dynamics within shared social hierarchies and offering new ways to perceive what surrounds us.
Through anthropocentric critique and humour, she invites audiences to reconsider their position within multispecies entanglements and the overlooked conditions shaping ecological coexistence. In this accelerated society shaped by pre-existing norms, how do we reimagine with what’s overlooked? Angel enquires: how could she embody the perceptions and autonomy of nonhumans to expand human perceptual sensitivity and move beyond conventional structures?
