about

FILMS

in the place where we left and arrived

IMAGERIES

PUBLICATIONS

metamorphosis, a retrieval of love

CONTACT

Samuel Zhang

is a visual artist living in London and Shanghai.

With a background in photography and anthropology, his practice explores the diverse landscapes of human condition, tracing questions arisen from identity, diaspora, social injustice, and the forces of urban political economy. Through photography, moving image, installation, and poetry, he builds alternative narratives that resist hegemonic storytelling and open spaces for new ways of seeing, remembering, and becoming.

EDUCATION

MA Anthropology, Goldsmiths

BA (Hons) Photography, UAL

ARTICLES and PUBLICATIONS

2024 POETICS OF MIGRATION WORDS THAT UNITE US (NOTTS POETRY PRESENTS, Edited by Kathleen Dunmore)

2024 Review: "A Conversation with Zichen Zhang：Insights into the Intersection of Personal and Social Life" by MANA

2024 Review: "A Dialogue with Zichen Zhang: The Mirrored Identity and Multi-Media Storytelling" by Artron

2023 Review: Corridor8 by Mandla

Illustrations credit to Elaine

PROGRAMMES & TALKS

2024 Mentor for the film programme Queers Across the Waves

2022 Talk for MAVS Films, Goldsmiths

Illustrations credit to Elaine

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS

2025 Fringe! Film & Arts Festival, Rich Mix Cinema, London

2025 To Heaven-gate Ascend, Hypha Gallery Marble Arch, London

2024 Acts of Union, Hypha Studios, London

2024 SQIFF BAFTA Qualifying Scotland 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 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 Asians, [screening], Brunei Gallery, London
2022 Becoming a body, [group exhibition], Copeland Gallery, London
2019 OffPrint, [artbook fair], Tate Modern, London