Bio

Zhan Zhang is a Toronto-based visual artist known for her freehand cut paper sculptures that have a fragile and otherworldly quality to them. In the same way of “line drawing”, paper cutting is broken into the smallest unit in the art medium - the cuts - an attempt to place this often dismissed form and material in a broader cultural context, and to re-imagine the function of these tactile practices in the contemporary environment of information overload and collective memories.

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Zhang's arts embody delicacy and precision, in which valid reality is sincerely replaced with strange combinations of objects and events. The paper, though seemingly intact, is strewn with scarred lines that respond spontaneously and naturally to the artist's hands. The visually transformative structures constantly distort in response to the light, inanimate things and animate things were all intertwined. The distorted forms aim to put viewers inside a moment to experience the dreams and the unconscious, to experience the loneliness, the confusion, and the divinity in a single glance, and question the reality surrounding us. 

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.