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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

(https://www.undonetheatre.com/london-londra-zine)

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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

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Illustrations credit to Elaine

EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS

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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

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CAREER HIGHLIGHT

2023 Selected for “New Contemporaries 2023”, UK

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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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