Bio
Zhan Zhang is a Toronto-based mixed-media artist known for her freehand paper-cutting sculptures that have an elegant and otherworldly quality to them. Using scissors to draw, the artist creates installation, video and paper-based works to explore the multiple facets of her identity formulated by her immigration to Canada and youth years in China.
Zhang graduated from the University of Toronto with two Honors B.A. majors in Visual Arts and Arts Management, and 3D Animation Post Graduate Degree from Seneca College.
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Her early works portray mythical creatures and plants, reflecting her interest in the natural world and keen observation of organic beauty. In recent years, Zhang's sculptures have evolved into conceptual art with Asian mythological references that depict visually transformative structures, in which the structures and systems are fragile, and each cutting line seemingly appears and disappears. In her art scenes, the animals, plants and people are all intertwined, and the laws of the real world are absent, which allows viewers to see bizarre inner views the artist found within herself.
Education
2008-2012
University of Toronto, Toronto
2016-2017
Seneca College, Toronto
Honors B.A. Major in Visual Arts and Specialist in Arts Management (Double Majors)
Post Graduate Degree, Major in 3D Animation and Media Arts
Selected Exhibitions
2024
L.L.Contemporary Gallery, Richmond hill
2024
Northern Contemporary Gallery, Toronto
2024
3rd Children's Art Festival, Haikou
2024
IDFK Art Studio, Toronto
2024
University of Toronto, Toronto
2023
Eastend Arts, Toronto
Group Show: What a Wonderful Year
Group Show: All The Small Things
Community Art Project: Wearable Arts, 3rd Children's Art Festival of "The kindergarten Without Walls"
Solo Show: Polycoria, Sculpture and Video Installations
Group Show: Wearable Arts Installations, U of T Charitable Fashion Runway
Group Show: In View, Under The Moonlight, A Toronto Nuit Blanche Associated Project
Selected Press and Publications
2023
CanCulture, Toronto
Artist Apprentice
2015
Artist Assistant, Toronto
2014
Artist Assistant, Toronto
Artist Assistant to Yael Brotman
Internship at Phillip Beesley's Studio