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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

Artist Apprentice

2015

Artist Assistant, Toronto

2014

Artist Assistant, Toronto

Artist Assistant to Yael Brotman

Internship at Phillip Beesley's Studio

© 2024 by Zhan Zhang. 

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