As Damien Ding’s work is included in the project  Within Global Isolation: Asian Artists in America, his work, among other participating artists, is featured in an article where he reveals how experiencing “tremors” when interacting with artworks led to his desire to produce his own work. The artist also discusses the importance of sight and proximity to the work of art—one that may not always be achieved through virtual experiences. Read the full article on The Brooklyn Rail.

Within Global Isolation: Asian Artists in America is the first installment of a series of virtual exhibitions. Organized independently by curators Han Hongzheng and Christie’s Education Alumni Chandler Allen, Within Global Isolation: Asian Artists in America brings together work by ten Asian artists across the country, including Hương Ngô, Guanyu Xu, Leonard Suryajaya, Ying Zhu, Siyuan Tan, Zhen Guo, Damien Ding, Tin Wai Wong, Weina Lee, and Toby Zeng. The exhibition is a response to the rise in discrimination towards people of Asian descent, now at its peak as a result of COVID-19. In it, we reassess work relevant to the pandemic, and prompt questions of coexistence — both on the global and local levels.