dawn jian was born in Guangzhou and grew up in Canada and the United States. She graduated with a Master of Art from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in 2014, completing five years of study and receiving an honors scholarship from MICA. In 2018, Dan was selected as one of China's Top Ten Young Artists by the Youth Art Commune. Since then, her work has been exhibited in both the United States and China. Most recently, in 2024, she participated in the Shanghai Art021 Art Fair with the Macau Huashi Gallery. In 2025, she received the Art Creator Award from the Shanghai LeaderClub Cultural Association. Also in 2025, she joined Affordable Art Fair HK and held a solo exhibition at Wyndham Social in Central, Hong Kong, and participated in the Guangzhou Magic Lantern Contemporary Art Fair with 5+1 GALLERY. Her work is based on a dialogue between "two worlds." Through AI-generated images, her mixed-media works attempt to capture our unique feelings in digital immersion: that captivating yet sometimes overwhelming state of endless scrolling and compulsive refreshing. In this state, our attention is fragmented, and the boundary between reality and virtuality quietly blurs. She currently creates and lives in the Greater Bay Area.

簡丹出生於廣州，成長於加拿大和美國， 2014本科和碩士畢業于美國馬裡蘭藝術學院（Master of Art, Maryland Institute College of Art, MICA）連讀五年榮獲MICA榮譽獎學金。 2018年，丹被青春藝術公社評選為中國十強青年藝術家之一。此後，她的作品在美國和中國均有展出，最近2024年與澳門華氏畫廊參加上海Art021藝術博覽會。 2025年，她獲得了中國上海LeaderClub文化協會頒發的藝術創作者獎。2025年她加了Affordable Art Fair HK並在香港中環的Wyndham Social舉辦了個人展及跟5+1 GALLERY參加广州魔灯当代藝博會。她的創作是基于“兩個世界”的對話。通過用AI程序生成圖片，利用混合媒介的作品試圖捕捉我們在數字沈浸中的獨特感受：那種令人著迷又時而壓倒性的無盡滑動與強迫性刷新狀態。在此狀態下，我們的注意力被割裂，現實與虛擬的邊界隨之悄然模糊。她現創作與居住在大灣區。