Born in Shanghai in 2002 and based in New York, Yurong Xiao is an artist whose practice centers on painting and expands through mixed-media and interdisciplinary approaches. Drawing on psychology, metaphysics, and philosophy, their work examines the intangible forces—emotion, memory, and interpersonal energy—that shape how bodies inhabit space and relate to one another. Through layered imagery and texture experimentation, they construct subjective atmospheres where objects, environments, and feeling states intersect. Yurong received a BFA from the School of Visual Arts (SVA), New York, and is currently an MFA Fine Arts candidate at SVA.