Tao Wenting grew up in Anhui before her family moved to Shanghai, where she graduated from high school. She moved to the US in 2014, completing a bachelor’s degree in Studio Art and Mathematics at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, followed by an MFA in Painting at the Pratt Institute in New York.

在安徽的群山中长大,后随父母移居上海。2014年到美国斯沃斯莫尔学院开始本科学习,完成艺术学士学位后到纽约的普拉提艺术学院进修艺术硕士。