Dylan Fish, born in St. Catharines, Canada in 1991, who was a Chicago-based artist and is an alumni of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he attended the Fiber and Material Studies Program on a full-merit Scholarship. He has received grants from the province of Nova Scotia, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Shapiro Center for Research and Collaboration, the University of Chicago’s Arts, Science and Culture Initiative and the National Endowment for the Arts. Now he lives in Chicago. Fish’s work has been reviewed in The Chicago Tribune, The Coast, and published in New American Paintings: Juried Exhibitions in Print. His work has been exhibited in Canada, South Africa, Germany and the United States at institutions that include the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, the Gaylord Building Museum, the Illinois State Museum Lockport, HFBK University of Fine Arts Hamburg, NSCAD University and the SAIC Sullivan Galleries. This exhibition marks the first time Fish’s work is being exhibited in China.
    Investigating the intersections of craft, technology and design, Fish’s work challenges the rapid nature of digital production and consumption through the slowness of outmoded technologies and processes. How can we know the harm new technologies may cause until they are already released? From nuclear weapons to cyber surveillance, the push for innovation comes at the cost of an inability to regulate advancements as they are made, whether it threatens our physical safety, our personal privacy, or our environment at large. A 50-yard weaving is used as an analog storage device to challenge the very ideas of how and why we store data; a tiny LED sign slows the process of reading down as it scrapes massive amounts of data from the web. Materials are made to misbehave and only in their unmaking and repurposing does Fish believe that we can begin to understand what they are.