Bio
Zhan Zhang is a Toronto and Shanghai 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.
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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.
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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
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Selected Solo Exhibitions
2026 (Forthcoming) Solo Show, Cedar Ridge Gallery, Scarborough​
2025 Solo Show: Out of Sight, Out of Mind, L.L.Contemporary Gallery, Richmond Hill​​
2024 Solo Show: Polycoria, Sculpture and Video Installations, IDFK Art Studio, Toronto​
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Selected Group Exhibitions​
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2026 Annual Juried Exhibition 2026, Latcham Art Centre, Whitchurch-Stouffville, ON
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2026 Artsu Matsuri, Japanese Canadian Cultural Center, East York, ON
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2025 Mini-Mini, Artspace, Peterborough, ON
2025 Convergence, Tom Thomson Art Gallery, Owen Sound
2025 Tradition Transformed, Orillia Museum of Art & History, Orillia
2025 Resistant Fibers,Textile Installation, Canada Council for the Arts, Âjagemô Exhibition Space, Ottawa​
2025 Annual Juried Exhibition 2025, Jury's Award 3rd Place, Latcham Art Centre, Whitchurch-Stouffville
​2024 What a Wonderful Year, L. L. Contemporary Gallery, Richmond hill​
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2024 All The Small Things, Northern Contemporary Gallery, Toronto
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2024 Community Art Project: Wearable Arts, 3rd Children's Art Festival of "The kindergarten Without Walls", Haikou​
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2024 Wearable Arts Installations, U of T Charitable Fashion Show, University of Toronto, Toronto​
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Selected Art Fairs
2025 Toronto Outdoor Art Fair, Toronto
Selected Grants
2025 Exhibition Assistance Grant, Ontario Arts Council
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Artist Apprentice
2015 Artist Assistant to Yael Brotman, Toronto
2014 Internship at Phillip Beesley's Studio, Toronto
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