About

          Zoe Zhang (b.2001, Chongqing, China) works at the intersection of Anthropology and multi-media Art. Recently graduated from the University of Rochester with double degrees in Anthropology(Honors) and Studio Arts, Zoe’s artworks have been shown in the ASIS Gallery and Harnett Gallery. Zoe often begins her creative process by documenting her surroundings and expanding her repertoire of artistic techniques at local artisans’ studios, museums, and day communities. Her methodology in ethnographic studies aims to understand better and represent the local communities, thus contributing to the emic perspectives involved in topics ranging from the space, sensory politics, emotion-based governence, care, performance and infrastructure. The primary and archival source materials collected at fields serve as Zoe’s pivotal inspirations to trace the sociocultural and political underpinnings behind the cultural (dis)continuity of (im)materiality. Her interdisciplinary practice enables her to express her sociocultural imagination through academic papers and visualized artworks.