Ketty Haolin Zhang

Ketty Haolin Zhang (b. Chaoyang) is a visual artist based between New York and Vancouver, working primarily across mixed-media assemblage and painting. Informed by her diasporic experience immigrating from an industrial city in northeast China as a teenager, her work explores the state of provisional belonging and how identity is built, maintained, and protected under conditions of instability. Often drawing from personal archives, literature, pop culture, and mythology, she is interested in the act of self-construction and self-transformation as a form of resistance and a way to make oneself at home in the world.

BA Double Major in Visual Arts and Art History, University of British Columbia

Zhang's recent work has been shown with White Columns, Capture Photography Festival, Centre of International Contemporary Art, Vancouver Art Book Fair, Field Projects, Centre A: Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, The Bows, Canton-Sardine, The Reach Gallery Museum, and Surrey Art Gallery, among others.

National and international features include Dazed, IMPULSE Magazine, CBC Arts, SAD Mag, Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas, and PRISM international.

Zhang has also participated in multiple residencies across the world and received local and national awards and grants.