The Artist
Yarina Dai is a contemporary jewelry artist based in China and Switzerland. She explores the evolving symbiotic relationship of human, nature and technology. She creates speculative futures where organic life merges with advanced technologies, exploring the ethical, emotional, and psychological dimensions of these hybrid creations. Themes of empathy, dependence, mental health, and the risks of over-reliance on machines and artificial intelligence recur throughout her practice.
She earned a BFA in Metals and Jewelry from the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in 2022, followed by an MFA in Jewelry + Metalsmithing from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 2024, where she received the Glancy Award and RISD’s 2024 Fine Arts Graduate Award.
Yarina’s process merges traditional jewelry-making techniques with experimental and digital methods. She works with electroforming, electroplating, and 3D printing, alongside emerging tools such as AR, VR, and AI-driven visual storytelling, creating speculative designs that bridge the physical and digital worlds while questioning not only what we create—but what we might become.
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Education
2022 – 2024 Rhode Island School of Design
Providence, Rhode Island, USA
• MFA in Jewelry + Metalsmithing
2018 – 2022 Rochester Institute Technology
Rochester, NY, USA
• BFA in Studio Arts, Metal and Jewelry Design
• Minor in Theatre Arts
Exhibitions
2025 Let's Get Phygital, Flair Fashion Week, London Fashion Week.
London, UK
Let's Get Phygital, Biennial International Conference for the Craft Sciences (BICCS)
The Craft Laboratory, Mariestad, Sweden and online
Romanian Jewelry Week, National Library of Romania
Bucharest, Romania
2024 Digital Jewelry Week, Online Exhibition and Garden Senato
Milano, Italy
The Body Project, Dutch Design Week (DDW)
Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Marzee International Graduate Show, Galerie Marzee
Nijmegen, The Netherlands
RISD Grad Show | RI Convention Center
Providence, RI, USA
2023 In the Palms of our hand | Brown university, List Art Center
Providence, RI, USA
RISD Jewelry + Metalsmithing Graduate Biennial | Sol Koffler Gallery
Providence, RI, USA
2022 Rome Jewelry Week by Premio Incinque Jewels
Firenze, Rome, ITA
RIT Senior Art Exhibition | Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester, NY, USA
American Craft Council Show | Baltimore Convention Center
Baltimore, MD, USA
Awards
2025 Baglietto Talent Award 3rd Prize
Young Architects Competition
2024 Global Creative Graduate Showcase Shortlist
Arts Thread
2024 Fine Arts Graduate Award
Rhode Island School of Design
Glancy Award
Rhode Island School of Design
2022 JRACraft Honorable Mention
James Renwick Alliance for Craft
2019 Dean’s List
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, USA
2018 Nation Silver Medal in Jewelry
Scholastic Art@ Writing Awards
Press
2024 Arts Thread Global graduate showcase 2024
www.artsthread.com
Klimit02
https://klimt02.net/jewellers/yarina-dai
The Providence Journal
RISD Graduate Thesis Exhibition (providencejournal.com)
2022 Shoutout LA Interview
“Meet Yarina Dai | Jewelry Artist, Designer”
https://shoutoutla.com/meet-yarina-day-jewelry-artist-designer/