Iyo DONG (b. 1998, Hangzhou, China) is a Paris-based painter currently completing a Master of Arts Plastiques at the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Trained in traditional Chinese painting at the China Academy of Art, she approaches this formation not as a heritage to be preserved but as an operative system to be repositioned. Working primarily with silk, ink, and watercolour, her practice establishes a dynamic tension between structure and accident, control and irreversibility, foregrounding the material conditions of image-making. Through processes of absorption, diffusion, and the behaviour of pigment on silk, DONG examines how pictorial images come into being and how vision itself is mediated through material, gesture, and time.