Wishing Siren, 2022
Victim, 2019
Hunter, 2019
Mingdong Sun: Impotent Pegasus 
On view May 12 – June 24, 2023
Mingdong Sun’s artistic practice analyzes the sympathies of human desires in order to heal childhood trauma on a personal and societal level. His works are fairytales of imaginary creatures that reflect his thinking about the relationship between himself and society, transgressing personal and cultural boundaries. In Impotent Pegasus 
he reimagines traditional Eastern and Western folklore, placing himself as a queer character at the center of the story to subvert the classical tales and enact a mythical queer legacy. Using found objects and concepts along with origami animals, Sun creates a system where the compositions contain each other while forming an unearthly harmony.
Mingdong Sun received a MA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2020. In 2022, he was Assistant Curator for the exhibition Under the Skin, Between the Machines at the How Museum in Shanghai, China. Mingdong Sun was awarded this solo Revealed exhibition following his participation in The Sculpture Center’s exhibition The Shape of Sculpture: Recent Cranbrook Graduates in 2020.
