Fusheng Zhong
Jewelry + Metalsmithing MFA
Rhode Island School of Design
Specialisms: Jewelry
Location: Beijing, China
Fusheng Zhong
First Name: Fusheng
Last Name: Zhong
Specialisms: Jewelry
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My Location: Beijing, China
University / College: Rhode Island School of Design
Course / Program Title: Jewelry + Metalsmithing MFA
About
Fusheng Zhong is a jewelry artist and illustrator from China, holding an MFA in Jewelry + Metalsmithing from the Rhode Island School of Design. Their practice explores how historical narratives, cultural memory, and individual experience can be translated into intimate, material forms.
Working across jewelry, sculpture, paper, metal, hair, and found cultural imagery, Zhong draws inspiration from Chinese classical poetry, historical documents, and literati aesthetics. Through meticulous handmaking and unconventional materials, they transform history from a distant, monumental structure into something fragile, bodily, and emotionally accessible. Their work considers jewelry not only as adornment, but also as a form of documentation—one that allows the weight of history to be carried with human warmth.
Within the Archive: Jewelry and the Poetics of Historical Trace
Within the Archive explores how jewelry can transform historical documents into intimate bodily experiences. Drawing from Chinese classical poetry, Buddhist ideas of time, and literati traditions, I use paper, human hair, metal, ink, and clay to translate cultural memory into wearable and sculptural forms. The project centers on Li Bai’s poem Bring the Wine, whose affirmation of the present resists the anxiety produced by historical narratives. Through scrolls, vessels, embroidered cicadas, and oversized jewelry, history becomes fragile, tactile, and warm. Rather than treating the archive as fixed evidence, I approach it as material that can be carried, altered, and reimagined.
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