My name is Rong. Welcome to my site. I am a New York-based interdisciplinary artist & writer, currently pursuing my M.F.A. in non-fiction writing at Columbia University. I am the previous Director of ROSEGALLERY - a Santa Monica-based photography gallery. I hold a B.F.A. in Fashion Design from Parsons School of Design as well as an M.A. in Experimental Humanities & Social Engagement (XE) from New York University.
Trained as a fashion designer, my apparel collections have a stylistic reference to streetwear with an emphasis on function, experimental spatial play, and creative construction. As the pattern maker of the CFDA member label Death to Tennis, the 2019 Spring Summer Collection, I helped lead production, received rave reviews from established publications alike.
Having continued my graduate education in Art & Literary Studies, combining my background as a visual artist, my writing pieces explore the creative possibilities of the linguistic and the visual through critical and experimental integrations of philosophical theories. The essay "To Reason and To Feel" is an example of the type of experimental writing that is at the center of my practice. Such writing would be my main creative focus during my time at Columbia University.
Departing from the same interest in stylistic expression that drew me to the world of fashion, my illustration and tattoo work investigates the subtlety in sentiments through a minimalistic style. Influenced by my background in fashion, the subject of my illustration work centers around figures, garments, gestures, and expressions.
