Exhibitions

2023

Not too hot, Not too cold, SVA,

2021

inPublic, Public installation, Boston, Nov 6-7, 2021

Yuan Art Museum, Beijing, China, Sept, 2021

MESSAGE RECEIVED, curated by Jameson Johnson, Boston Cyberarts

Dream Boston, curated by Amy Halliday and Miranda ADEkoje, Northeastern University, Boston

To Cast Too Bold A Shadow, The 8th Floor, Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation, NY


2020

The Immigrant Biennial, New York

Korean Cultural Center New York,

Washington Project for the Arts - HIGH FREQUENCY: a benefit auction supporting artists and WPA

Poem of the Earth, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, curated by Nadine Braquetti, New York

Floating, curated by Angie Nee

Force Majeure, Eli Klein Gallery, New York

Collection of Recollection, Yotsuya Unconfirmed Studio, Tokyo, Japan


2019

Commandments for Women, The Assembly Room (project space), New York

Ungrounded, International Studio and Curatorial Program, Brooklyn

MEZZANINE, 630 Flushing Ave, Brooklyn, NY

Women in Media Technology, Tribute to the 15 years of ADAF, Greece

Streetlight, Wedge Projects, Chicago

Streetlight, Roman Susan, Chicago

Tribute to the 15 Years of Athens Digital Arts Festival, Greece

Only Echoes, Passing Through the Night, ODETTA, Brooklyn, New York.

idioglossia, curated by Xinyi Ren, Pfizer Building, New York

The Art Newspaper booth, Frieze Art Fair, New York

Nothing Without Intention, Pfizer Building (630 Flushing Ave, Brooklyn), New York

Certifying Reality, curated by Rory Fitzgerald Bledsoe, Flux Factory, New York

Reaching Into Transformation, CP Project Space, New York

2018

Language Producing Factory, EMW Gallery, Boston

The Institute of Marriage, 456 Gallery, New York

Japan Media Arts Festival Overseas Promotion:

CAMERA JAPAN Festival, WORM and LantarenVenster in Rotterdam, Netherlands

CAMERA JAPAN Festival, Kriterion and Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam, Netherlands

Aniventure Comic Con, Inter Expo Center(Sofia/Bulgaria)

El Festival, Los Chocolates - Cultural Center, Las Mañanitas Hotel, Flor de Mayo Hotel, Cine Morelos, Cuernavaca City Museum(Mexico/Cuernavaca)

Seoul International Cartoon & Animation Festival(SICAF), Seoul, Korea

Festival Waterpieces 2018, Latvia

XXIV Salón del Manga de Barcelona, Spain

Ars Electronica Festival 2018, Linz, Austria

Never Take a Vacation with an Artist Who Collects the Same Stuff You Do, International Studio and curatorial Program Residency, New York

Forward Union 2018, Red Bulls Art Center New York

2018 Light into Night, Art OMI, NY

Culture Club event, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

HARD: Subversive Representation, University Hall Gallery at UMass Boston, curated by Sam Toabe

The 21st Japan Media Art Festival of Award-winning works, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan

UNSTATED, Coburn Projects, New York, NY


2017

The Gig Economy, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston

Serial Box nighttime screening project, Missouri, MO

Illuminus Boston 2017, Boston, MA

OSMOSIS Audiovisual Media festival 2017, Taipei

Truth or Consequences, §üb∫amsøn (subsamson), Boston, MA

Language Producing Factory, Gallery@sepencer lofts, Chelsea, MA

Emerging Artist show, Boston City Hall, MA

Dispatches screening from Boston Underground Film Festival short screening, Somerville theater, MA

The Projection Room, The Unstitute, www.theunstitute.org

Koan, iartcolony, Rockport, MA

Streetlight at ROMAN SUSAN gallery, Chicago, IL

Pop-up show, Samson at Lovelight farm, Boston, MA

FONLAD - International Video Art and Performance Festival, Comibra, Portugal

13th Athens Digital Arts Festival | VIDEO-ART, 23 Mitropoleos str, Historic Center of Athens

Intangible Threads, The Front Space, NH

Up/Rooted, exhibition curated by María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Brookline Arts Center

"Teenaged" , Fort Points Art Gallery, Boston

The Feminist Opposition, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI

Iteration, 263 Gallery, Boston, MA, United States

Present by Lauren K.O'Neal, the director and curator of Lamont Gallery at 2017 Southern Humanities Conference, Louisville, Kentucky, United States (http://www.southernhumanities.org)


Public Commission

Mouse with ears and tail, public art commission, Rose Kennedy Greenway, Boston, Feb, 2020- Feb, 2021

How to Make it in the Art World, Art Newspaper at Frieze Art Fair, 2019

Artist Talk/Interview

2021

Artist Talk, Heritage Space, Vietnam, Hanoi

2020

Myth and Legends: Beyond Chinese-ness, Moderated by Jacqueline Kok

2019

Asian Women Artists in the Context of The Social and Institutional Structure, with Jean Shin, Xin Wang, Moko Fukuyama

2017

FAKE FEMINISM, in conversation with Jamie Diamond and Kinga Rajzak, Coburn Project, New York

Lecture series: STAND UP - Women you should know, Mills Gallery, Boston 

http://bigredandshiny.org/32531/stand-up-silvi-naci-in-conversation-with-furen-dai/

http://www.independentri.com/independents/arts_and_living/article_1e973533-fd64-57f5-805d-c83082b29d06.html

"The Feminist Opposition" - Artist Talk at Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI

"Message through Generations" published on Matador Review

Residency / Fellowship / Workshop

MacDowell Residency, Peterborough, NH, 2022

GlogauAIR Residency, Berlin, 2022

Chautauqua Visual Arts, Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, New York, 2021

Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Dictionaries and Aporias, Ho Tzu Nyen with Jan Gerber and Sebastian Lutgert, Austria, 2021

Recodings and Renewals, Fall Semester, Knight Foundation Art + Research center, ICA Miami

NARS Foundation, New York, 2020

The Starry Night Residency, NM, 2017

The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation Fellowship at OMI Art Residency,  New York

Samson Gallery, Boston, 2017

International Studio and Curatorial Program, 2017-2019

 ELSEWHERE Residency, 2019



2023

PRESS

The New York Review

Ian Johnson

Loot Under the Lindens

May 25, 2023 issue


Inside Out: Museum Talk with Furen Dai

Boston Art Review


Furen Dai, How Race Was Made?

Engaging Collections


Furen Dai shines in ‘Dream Boston’ art exhibit

The Huntington News


Unsettle Consciousness

LEAP Magazine

Ren Yue


Looking Back: A Case for Co-Dreaming at Northeastern’s Gallery 360

Boston Art Review


Subjugation, Consent, and Active Resistance: To Cast Too Bold a Shadow at The 8th Floor

Whitehot Magazine

Nina Mdivani


Boston Globe

Explore these less-traveled spaces at 8 Boston area parks and open spaces


Artforum

Force Majeure