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O Zhang is an artist working in photography and mix media. A graduate of Royal College of Art in London and Central Academy of Art in Beijing, she moved to New York in 2004, since then is living, working and traveling between New York and Beijing. O Zhang was the recipient of the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Artist Fellowship (NY), Wilson Centre for Photography Fellowship and Fuji Film Student Awards (London), winner of RCA Photography Graduate Award (London), and nominated/short listed for numerous awards including Chinese Contemporary Art Awards (Beijing), Beck’s Future Award (London) and Creative Capital Awards.
O Zhang has had solo exhibitions in Beijing, London and Manchester, has been invited to give artist lecture in Oxford University. She is the first selected artist to start the artist in residency program at the Queen’s Museum of Art in New York. Her work has been included in group shows throughout Europe, America and China, including Kunsthalle Museum (Hamburg), Miro Museum (Barcelona), Kunstmuseum (Bern), Folkwang Museum (Essen), Museum of Contemporary Art (Shanghai), Millennium Monument Art Museum (Beijing) and is in the collections of Guggenheim Museum (NY), Santa Barbara Museum (CA), Clifford Chance Collection (London), Millennium Monument Art Museum collection (Beijing), and other private collections including Uli Sigg collection in Switzerland. Her first New York solo show will be open on Dec 12, 2008 at CRG gallery.
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