Bio
Zhan Zhang is a Toronto-based visual artist known for her soft sculptures and paper art animations, which possess a fragile and otherworldly quality. In the same way of “line drawing”, paper cutting is broken into the smallest unit in the medium - the cuts - an attempt to place this often-dismissed form and material in a broader cultural context, re-imagine the function of tactile practices in the contemporary environment of information overload and collective memories.
In Zhang's art, valid reality is sincerely replaced with strange combinations of objects and events. Inanimate and animate things assume similar characters through convergence. The distorted forms embody delicacy and precision, put viewers inside a moment to experience the dreams and unconscious, the loneliness and confusion, and the divinity in a single glance, and question the reality surrounding us.
Education
2012 Honors B.A. Major in Visual Arts and Specialist in Arts Management (Double Majors)
University of Toronto, Toronto
2017 Post Graduate Degree, Major in 3D Animation and Media Arts
Seneca College, Toronto
Selected Exhibitions
2025 Group Show: Convergence, Tom Thomson Art Gallery, Owen Sound
2025 Group Show: Tradition Transformed, Orillia Museum of Art & History, Orillia
2025 Group Show: Resistant Fibers Collaborative Textile Installation Project, Canada Council for the Arts, Âjagemô Exhibition Space, Ottawa
2025 Solo Show: Out of Sight, Out of Mind, L.L.Contemporary Gallery, Richmond Hill
2025 Group Show: Annual Juried Exhibition 2025, (Jury's Award 3rd Place) Latcham Art Centre, Whitchurch-Stouffville
2024 Group Show: What a Wonderful Year, L.L.Contemporary Gallery, Richmond hill
2024 Group Show: All The Small Things, Northern Contemporary Gallery, Toronto
2024 Community Art Project: Wearable Arts, 3rd Children's Art Festival of "The kindergarten Without Walls", Haikou
2024 Solo Show: Polycoria, Sculpture and Video Installations, IDFK Art Studio, Toronto
2024 Group Show: Wearable Arts Installations, U of T Charitable Fashion Runway, University of Toronto, Toronto
2023 Group Show: In View, Under The Moonlight, A Toronto Nuit Blanche Associated Project, Eastend Arts, Toronto
Selected Art Fairs
2025 Toronto Outdoor Art Fair, Toronto
Artist Apprentice
2015 Artist Assistant to Yael Brotman, Toronto
2014 Internship at Phillip Beesley's Studio, Toronto