BIO
ZHANG Wenxin(b. 1989) now lives and works in Hangzhou. She received her bachelor's degree in landscape architecture from Jinan University (2010) and her master's degree in fine art from California College of the Arts (2013). Zhang sees herself as a terrain builder. She works not to construct landscapes and wonders, but to depict human and non-human minds in the form of mixed media. She uses images, installations, writing, and soundscapes as tools to create process-oriented perceptual experiences, and often uses her work to guide the viewer to fall off the plane of the everyday and enter into a contemplation on time and the transcendent in a liminal space-time.
Her solo exhibitions include:
“Notes of the Hollow”, Mud Gallery, Shanghai, China (2022)
"SubSurfacesaṃsvedaja", Imagokinetics, Hangzhou, China (2020)
“filling the Klein Bottle" (as an artist duo with Xuan Ye), InterAccess, Toronto (2020)
“The Map of the Mapping”, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou (2019),
“Phi” (as an artist duo with Jing Yu), Taikang Space Terrace Project, Beijing (2019)
“Time Burns”, Surplus Space, Wuhan (2017)
“Beast by the Waterfall Guesthouse”, Artist Telivision Gallery, San Francisco (2014)
Her group exhibitions include:
“Earth Heat Flow”, Beijing Biennial, Beijing (January 2023)
“The Pieces I Am”, UCCA Edge, Shanghai (September 2022)
“Boomerang: OCAT Biennale 2021”, OCAT Shenzhen (December 2021)
“Imaging Our Futures”, Photofairs Shanghai (Novermber 2021)
“TEMPORAL STACK, THE DEEP SENSOR”, Up Art Space, Guizhou (October 2021)
“Intermingling flux: Guangzhou Image Triennial 2021”, Guangdong Museum, Guangzhou (March 2021)
“Space Oddity”, UCCA dune, Qinhuangdao (March2021)
“Play societies: wolves, lynx and ants”, Hyundai Motor Studio, Beijing (June 2020)
“Those who see and know all, are all and can do all”, 798 Art Center, Beijing (May 2020)
“Greasy Spoon”, Ota Fine Arts, Shanghai (September 2019)
“Lying Sophia and Mocking Alexa”, Hyundai Motor Studio, Beijing (July 2019)
“Unexposed”, K11, Guangzhou (August 2018)
“The Ecstasy of Time”, He Xiangning Museum, Shenzhen (October 2017)
“The Staged Club”, Hongkun Museum, Beijing (October 2017)
“DATENTRÄUME”, Goethe Institut, Beijing (2017)
“A Space-Time of Transitional Desires”, The Clemente, New York (2016)
“The Second Three Shadows Experimental Image Open Exhibition”, Three Shadows Photographic Art Center, Beijing, China (2015)
“Open Seas”, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley (2015).
She was an artist in residence and exhibited at Muffatwerk (Munich, Germany) in 2019, The Thicket (Darien, US) in 2017, Woodstock Center for Photography (Woodstock, NY) in 2014 and Wassaic Project (Wassaic, NY) in 2013.
Zhang was a receiver of the Magnum Foundation Atlantic Philanthropies Grant in 2016, and she was selected as British Journal of Photograph’s 2016 New Talent.
Her Curatorial Practice includes “APAture Art Festival”, San Francisco (2013); “Border Resonance”, Goethe Institute, Beijing (2018); “A Room that Releases Spores”, THE SHOUTER, Shanghai (2021); “Stay Art Festival” panal series, Nanchang, Jiangxi (2020-2022) and “Notes of the Hollow” performance series.
简历