Born in Malaysia in 1995, Yong Jing Yi is a visual artist currently based in Taiwan. She received her Master of Fine Arts from the National Taiwan University of Arts in 2025 and her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Taipei National University of the Arts in 2019. Her artistic practice is rooted in painting, with occasional forays into sculpture and installation.
Deeply concerned with materiality, temporality, and bodily labor, her work seeks to respond to the era and social context in which she lives. She questions the ontology of art by investigating the blurry thresholds between painting, sculpture, and objecthood—often positioning her works as spatial elements or protrusions on the wall, subtly disrupting the viewing environment.
Linear structures, pale tonalities, and delicate surface layering form recurring visual vocabularies in her compositions. These elements act as metaphors for interior states and fragmented subjectivities. Through her attention to the physical construction of visual space, she reflects on how painting exists in the digital age—as a tangible, temporal, and intimate form within a reality increasingly shaped by immateriality.
In her recent work, she explores woven paper materials to extend the idea of the line as a traversing gesture, creating visual tensions between flatness and spatial depth. She invites viewers to approach her practice without rigid categorizations—allowing each piece to be seen as painting, sculpture, or spatial intervention—encouraging open interpretations of material presence and perceptual boundaries.
