Artist Yu Shijing’s JINGJING Studio specializes in the creation of handmade fiber art pieces. The studio has won multiple awards and participated in various artist exhibitions. Yu actively develops fiber-based art products and collaborates with commercial brands to hold workshops. Her clients include the Yicang Art Museum, Shanghai Plaza, Changzhou Linping Academy, and Jaeger-LeCoultre.

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Yu’s artwork 36 won the Bronze Award at the FA International Frontier Innovation Art Design Competition (China Region). In the 2nd ICAD International Contemporary Young Art and Design Competition, 36 received the Excellence Award. In the HKDADC Hong Kong Digital Art and Design Competition, 36 won the Silver Award. Additionally, in the Finland AG Design Award (Individual), 36 earned a Silver Award at the Sino-Finnish International Cultural and Art Exchange Biennale. Furthermore, Yu’s SOFT VASE won the Best Design Award at the "Second" National Trend Cultural Design Competition, hosted by the Shanghai Bureau of Culture and Tourism’s Intangible Heritage New Experience.

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Yu Shijing has extensive exhibition experience. Notable exhibitions include: 田ᰀ的ᰀye at Tianye Space in Chengdu (2022), Weaving Romance at Zhongcheng Zhigu in Shanghai (2022), Natural by Nature at Stoic Gallery in Qingdao (2023), Everything Grows at Ruin IN.X in Shenzhen (2023), Artistic Table at the Qingdao Shanghai Cooperation Organization International Expo Center (2023), Linbox Valley in Xintiandi, Shanghai (2023), Fashion Education’s ‘Incubation’ and ‘Derivative’ at the Bai Ma Lake Convention and Exhibition Center in Hangzhou (2023), Towards the Sun at MF.LIFE in Shanghai (2024), and Inheritance and New Voices at the Shanghai Printing Factory (2024).

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Yu’s SOFT VASE series uses materials such as cotton rope, milk cotton, Icelandic wool, acrylic yarn, plastic tubes, textile waste materials, and recycled old sweaters. The artist combines the warmth of traditional handmade techniques with everyday materials that are on the verge of being discarded, weaving them into soft vases with a strong tactile texture. Yu repurposes leftover yarn, plastic mesh tubes from accessories, and cotton threads from bag-making, using traditional handcraft techniques such as tapestry weaving, flocking, and embroidery to redesign and recreate these materials. These fabric pieces are then transformed into soft vase installations that exhibit a strong sense of design and reflect the warmth of handmade art.

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In the piece Between Mountains and Rivers, the black-and-white tones are inspired by Chinese landscape painting. Different textures and the colors black, white, and gray are presented through hand weaving, flocking, and other techniques to create a tactile contrast between soft and hard elements. This piece adopts a three-dimensional approach to represent the contours of natural landscapes, using dark ink to outline the scenery and light ink to highlight the varying perspectives and moods of distant and close views.