Graduating from the graphic design program of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, in 2008, Du, who was born and raised in Beijing, furthered her study of the digital art program at the Department of Glass Program of the Rochester Institute of Technology in the US. In June 2016, she had her first solo exhibition in New York. The same year, she won an Honorable Mention for The International Exhibition of Glass Kanazawa in Kanazawa, Japan. In 2018, she won the 2018 Saxe Emerging Artist Award at the 48th Glass Art Society Conference in Venice, Italy. She is the youngest artist to present a solo exhibition at the Shanghai Museum of Glass.