Born in Hefei, Anhui, China, Hong Hong earned her BFA from the State University of New York at Potsdam and her MFA from the University of Georgia. Since 2015, Hong has traveled to faraway and distinct locations to create site-responsive, monumental paper works. In this nomadic practice, ancestral methods of Chinese paper-making coalesce with painting, monastic rituals, and feminist performances. Recent projects map interstitial relationships between exile, landscape, the passage of  time, and the Chinese diaspora through cartographic, symbolic, and material languages.

Her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions at numerous institutions across the US, including Sarasota Art Museum (Sarasota, FL), Real Art Ways (Hartford, CT), Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Bentonville, AR), Ortega Y Gasset Projects (New York City), Georgia Museum of Art (Athens, GA), NXTHVN (New Haven, CT), among others. Her practice has received press and coverage in publications such as Art21, Art New England, Southwest Contemporary, Hyperallergic, Two Coats of Paint, and Glasstire.

She has been the recipient of a Carnegie Foundation Fellowship at MacDowell (2020), a Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center (2019), an Artistic Excellence Fellowship from the Connecticut Office of Arts (2019), and a Creation of New Work Grant from the Edward C. and Ann T. Roberts Foundation (2018-2019). She has also participated in residencies at Yaddo (2019), the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (2020–2021), McColl Center (2022), and I-Park (2018). In 2021, she joined the studio art program at Endicott College as an Assistant Professor. Hong currently lives and works in Massachusetts.