Furen Dai is an artist whose recent projects explore the origins of languages, categories and systems that speak to larger socio-political structures. Her work manifests these concepts physically through the exploration of material, display, lighting, architecture, and text. Dai's art practice is crossdisclipinary spanning across video, 16mm film, publishing, sculpture, drawing, and photography. She is also the co-founder of current press, an experimental platform that focuses on books and zine projects published by women. Selected exhibitions include: New England Triennial 2022; The Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation (2021), National Art Center, Tokyo (2018); amongst others. She has participated in residencies, including International Studio and Curatorial Programs (ISCP), Art OMI, and MacDowell. She is also the recipient of The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation Fellowship (2017), ZK/U Berlin Fellowship (2021), and SMFA traveling Fellowship (2022). Dai holds a BA in Russian language and literature from Beijing Foreign Studies University and an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University.