CONTACT
Samuel Zhang
張 子晨
I am a multidisciplinary visual artist and LGBTQIA+ rights advocate living in London.
With a background in photography and anthropology, I explore the complexities of identity within the queer diaspora through a diverse range of mediums, including photography, installations, moving images, and poetry. By intertwining personal and societal narratives, I weave individual experiences with broader cultural, political, and historical discourses, aiming to construct alternative narratives that challenge hegemonic storytelling.
EDUCATION
MA Visual Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London
BA (Hons) Photography at London College of Communication, UAL
ARTICLES and PUBLICATIONS
2024 POETICS OF MIGRATION WORDS THAT UNITE US (NOTTS POETRY PRESENTS, Edited by Kathleen Dunmore)
2024 Review: "A Dialogue with Zichen Zhang: The Mirrored Identity and Multi-Media Storytelling" by Artron
(https://news.artron.net/20240622/n1132638.html)
2024 Review: "A Conversation with Zichen Zhang：Insights into the Intersection of Personal and Social Life" by MANA
(https://www.manamana.net/article/detail/1719393483505857894#!zh)
2023 Review: Corridor8 by Mandla
(https://corridor8.co.uk/article/new-contemporaries-2023/)
2023 London/Londra Zine, by UndoneTheatre
Illustrations credit to Elaine
PROGRAMMES & TALKS
2024 Mentor for Queers Across the Waves, QueerChinaUK & University of Nottingham
2023 Info & Sources Sharing for Chinese Trans* Living In the UK, QueerChinaUK
2022 Queer Lenses: MAVS Films, Goldsmiths
Illustrations credit to Elaine
EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS
2024 Acts of Union, Hypha Studios, London, UK
2024 SQIFF Scotland Queer International Film Festival 2024, Glasgow, UK
2024 Seeing Double, part of Foreign Bodies, [exhibition], University of Exeter, UK
2024 Book Arts Day, [artbook fair], Kenish Town Church Halls, London
2024 A Bigger Book Fair, [artbook fair], Peckham24, Unit 8 gallery, London
2024 Short Encounters, [screening], SelfPublishBeHappy, SPBH Space Milan, Italy
2024 Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2023, [exhibition], Camden Art Centre, London
2023 Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2023, [exhibition], Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool
2023 Artist’s Shorts screening, Menschen space, Shanghai, China
2023 Fringe Of Colour Art Festival, Summer Hall, Edinburgh
2023 Hackney Council’s LGBTQIA+ History Month Screening, VFDalston, London
2023 LONDON/LONDRA, [art festival], Undonetheatre, Queercircle, London
2022 Shorts Screening: Rebuilding Lives in LDN, Video Consortium, Goldsmiths, London
2022 Stories of Asian Queers, [screening], Formosa, Brunei Gallery, London
2022 Becoming a body, [group exhibition], Copeland Gallery, London
2019 OffPrint, [artbook fair], Tate Modern, London
CAREER HIGHLIGHT
2023 Selected for “New Contemporaries 2023”, UK
Berlin 2019
(Photography: Samuel Zhang)
MORE MOVING IMAGES
Blackwater
2023
(01'24'', single-channel video)
Whispers in the Tempest
风雨低鸣
2024
(02'32'', single-channel video)
A culture of honesty
明镜高悬
2024
(02'35'', single-channel video)
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