Stella Zhong’s practice engages built environments, cryptic objects, and precisely enacted events to express an urgency for nonconformity. With a naughty approach to astrophysics and anthropology, Zhong builds worlds as propositions. She creates models radically scaled to make space for logic to deviate and models that simulate alternative modes of power, knowledge creation, and empathy. Zhong is invested in dislocating the human-centric perspective. By bringing together the unlikeliest objects within incongruent spatial relationships, her work navigates the gap between dissociation and transformation, reassessing notions of belonging and anonymity.
Stella Zhong (b. 1993, Shenzhen, China) lives and works in New York, NY. She holds a BFA in Glass from Rhode Island School of Design and received her MFA from Yale University in 2021. Zhong has had solo exhibitions at Chapter NY, New York; Peninsula Art Space, Brooklyn; Weybosset Gallery, Providence; and Guan Shanyue Art Museum, Shenzhen. Her work has been included at Mana Contemporary, Jersey City; HUA International, Beijing; M 2 3, New York; Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Brooklyn; Paris School of Art, Paris; and more. Her work has been reviewed on ArtAsiaPacific, Mousse Magazine, Texte zur Kunst, among others.
In 2022, Zhong has upcoming solo exhibitions at Fanta-MLN, Milan and Adams and Ollman, Portland, OR. Her work will also be included in group exhibitions at The Sculpture Center, Queens, NY; Galerie Marguo, Paris; and The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT.
Born in Shenzhen, China in 1993
Lives and works in New York City, USA
Education
2021 |
MFA, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, USA |
2015 |
BFA, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Providence, USA |
2011 |
University for the Creative Arts, Foundation Diploma in Art & Design (Distinction),Canterbury, Kent, UK |
2010 | Fine Arts School Affiliated to China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China |
Solo Exhibitions
2022 |
Adams and Ollman, Portland, USA (forthcoming) |
Fanta-MLN, Milan, Italy (forthcoming) | |
2021 |
Chapter NY, ‘comet without a tail’, New York, NY, USA |
2019 |
Spring/Break Art Show, ‘Empty City’, New York, NY, USA |
2016 |
Peninsula Art Space, ‘nigh’, Brooklyn, NY, USA |
2004 | Guan Shanyue Art Museum, ‘Zhong Diming’, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China |
Group Exhibitions
2022 |
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, ‘52 Artists: Revisiting a Feminist Milestone’, Ridgefield, CT, USA (forthcoming) |
Galerie Marguo, 'The Hearing Trumpet Part II', Paris, France | |
Praxis - Casa Hernández, ‘Por debajo del árbol’, organized by PEANA, Mexico City, Mexico |
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Hive Center for Contemporary Art, ‘A Couple of: The Dual-mechanism of the New Generation of Asian Artists’, Beijing, China | |
2021 |
Chapter NY, ‘3.0’, New York, USA |
M 2 3, ‘Arcadian Feedback’, New York, USA |
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Mana Contemporary, ‘24 Signs of the Times’, Jersey City, USA | |
GTFO, Always Fresh, New York, USA | |
2020 |
Chapter NY, ‘Present in absence’, New York, USA (online) |
Japan Society, ‘From Here to There’, New York, USA (online performance) |
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‘Drawn Together’, Chicago Composers Orchestra (online) |
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Green Hall Gallery, ‘This Time We Know Each Other’, Yale University, New Haven, USA | |
Hua International, ‘Touching / Feeling’, Beijing, China |
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Stella ZhongParallel Waters, 2022Various clays, string, stainless steel, sand, epoxy, paint, wood152.4 x 176.5 x 66 cm
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Stella ZhongEvery Other Chopped, 2021Epoxy putty, air dry clay, wire, grout, aqua resin, tint, sand, epoxy, paint, plaster, foam, wood, ball bearing205.74 × 172.72 × 165.10 cm
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Stella Zhong(-4.8, +/-5, +/-7.5)∉(2), 2020Resin, clay, wood, graphite7.94 × 36.83 × 25.40 cm
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Stella Zhong(1.5,0.8)∈(-3.125,28,12)∩(5.5), 2020Paper, string, epoxy, plaster, pigment, wood, foam7.30 × 80.65 × 30.48 cm
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Stella ZhongBent Oob. A gliding crêpe on unnamed arc, 2020Plaster, epoxy, gouache, magnet, wood, foam, resin, gouache12.07 × 20.64 × 33.02 cm
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Stella ZhongBOnano1220∈(0.25, -8.25, -11.5), 2020Clay, string, plasticine, resin, pigment, wood, cement26.04 × 31.75 × 15.88 cm
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Stella ZhongButton 003, 2020Oil on panel91.44 × 121.92 × 3.81 cm
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Stella Zhong—/ —— on unnamed dock, 2020Epoxy, pigment, gouache, graphite, magnet, plaster, wood, foam, ball bearing198.12 × 85.73 × 67.31 cm
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Stella ZhongColumn II, in front of Maze, 2019Oil, plaster, foam, MDF41.91 × 6.03 × 10.16 cm
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Stella Zhongunnamed(courtyard), 2018Epoxy, sand, wood, foam, paint, and electric motor137.16 × 335.28 × 182.88 cm
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Stella Zhongunnamed(gate), 2018Stucco, pigment, wood, and burlap210.82 × 154.94 × 144.78 cm