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Zhan Zhang
Zhan Zhang is a Toronto-based visual artist known for her freehand cut paper sculptures that have a fragile and otherworldly quality to them. Using scissors to “draw” lines, Zhang creates installation, video and mixed media works to explore the multiple facets of her identity formulated by her immigration to Canada and youth years in China.
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 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.
