Furen Dai is an artist based in New York and Boston. Her practice has focused largely on the economy of the culture industry, and how languages lose function, usage, and history. Dai’s hybrid art practice utilizes video, painting, installation and collaboration. Her years as a professional translator and interest in linguistic studies have guided her artistic practice since 2015. She has exhibited work at the National Art Center, Tokyo; Athens Digital Arts Festival, Greece; International Video Art Festival Now&After, Moscow, Russia; and Edinburgh Artists’ Moving Image Festival, Scotland, among others. She has participated in residencies including International Studio and Curatorial Programs (ISCP), Art OMI, NARS Foundation, and Elsewhere. She is the recipient of The Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation Fellowship (2017) and an Emergency Grant from Foundation for Contemporary Arts (2020). She received 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.