Yi Xin Tong is a geologist, fisherman, musician, poet, and artist whose work evokes the paradoxes of contemporary urban life and its fraught relationship with nature. He was born on Lu Mountain (Lushan), a place that is celebrated for its natural beauty, as well as its centuries-old associations with Daoism, Buddhism and Confucianism and as the birthplace of Chinese landscape painting.

Tong’s work has been exhibited at CANDICE MADEY, New York (2023); the Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2022); Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson (2022); Today Art Museum, Beijing (2022); Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (2020). In 2021, he was the winner of the first Choi Foundation Prize for Contemporary Art, a Franco-Chinese art prize dedicated to contemporary creation and ecology.