O Zhang is an artist working in photography and mix media. A graduate of Royal College of Art in London and Central Academy of Art in Beijing, she moved to New York in 2004, since then is living, working and traveling between New York and Beijing. O Zhang was the recipient of the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Artist Fellowship (NY), Wilson Centre for Photography Fellowship and Fuji Film Awards (London), winner of RCA Photography Graduate Award (London), and nominated/short listed for numerous awards including Chinese Contemporary Art Awards (Beijing), Beck’s Future Award (London), Creative Capital Awards and The Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Awards (New York).
O Zhang has had solo exhibitions in Beijing, Istanbul, London, Manchester, Vancouver, Philladelphia and New York, has been invited to give artist lecture in Oxford University, New York University, Beijing Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing Fashion Institute, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art, Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art. Her work has been included in group shows throughout Europe, America and China, including Kunsthalle Museum (Hamburg), Miro Museum (Barcelona), Kunstmuseum (Bern), Folkwang Museum (Essen), Peabody Essex Museum (MA), UC Berkeley Art Museum (Berkeley), Museum of Contemporary Art (Shanghai), Millennium Monument Art Museum (Beijing) and is in the collections of Guggenheim Museum (NY), Santa Barbara Museum (CA), Clifford Chance Collection (London), Vancouver Art Gallery (Vancouver), Millennium Monument Art Museum collection (Beijing), and other private collections including Uli Sigg collection in Switzerland.
O Zhang is the first invited artist to start the Queens Museum art residency program in New York. She is giving a solo show at the Queens Museum of Arts from Nov 1st, 2009 to April 25th, 2010.
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