Gao Rong was born in 1986 in Baotou City, Inner Mongolia, China. She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), Beijing, in 2010.
Gao Rong’s artistic practice transforms traditional Chinese embroidery into large-scale sculptural installations. Using hand-stitched fabric over custom-built structures, she recreates everyday objects—such as furniture, architectural fragments, and domestic interiors—with hyper-realistic detail. Her works explore memory, cultural identity, and social transformation, merging the tactile with the conceptual.
In 2025, she participated in the group exhibition Seamline: Narrative of Identity and Memory at Redbase Art Sydney. She was also featured in Self Induced (2024), Sydney Contemporary (2024), and Base‘RED’ at Redbase Foundation Indonesia in 2015.
Her works have been shown at major international platforms including the Biennale of Sydney, the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, and Istanbul Modern, and she has held solo exhibitions at venues such as Klein Sun Gallery, New York, and White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney.
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