BIOGRAPHY

Emma x Zhang (EXZ) is a multidisciplinary artist practising in Redbox Studio in Naarm (Melbourne). EXZ utilises paintings, mixed media, video, digital prints and light projection installation as expression. She received a Master of Fine Arts at the Royal Melbourne Institute(RMIT) of Technology in 2023, and a Bachelor of Design (Communication Design), from in RMIT, 2016. Since 2015, she has worked on commissions including paintings and large-scale murals. In 2022, a site-specific collaborative project with Rhys Cousins, an eight-metre-high suspended artwork located in RMIT Swanston Library“The Möbius Universe“ was the competition winner of the RMIT Wristband Art Competition.

Recent exhibition projects include Translumia, Testing Grounds Public Art, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Melbourne, 2022; Enter the Underworld & Enter the Red, Miscellania Bar, Melbourne, 2022; Nanometamorph, Platform Arts, Geelong, 2022; Skinless, Queen Victoria Women’s Centre, Melbourne, 2022; Floating Reflection, Platform Exhibitions, Melbourne.

ARTIST STATEMENT

Emma x Zhang’s practice explores colour in a variety of mediums, including light projection, multimedia and mixed media, with a focus on conveying a vivid spectrum of visual experiences. Zhang harnesses the transient nature of light to display digitally manipulated online archives, ranging from microscopic insects and bioluminescent deep-sea creatures to mundane objects viewed through high-resolution lenses, interrogating how natural phenomena can be manipulated through a series of fragmented abstractions to create an otherworldly hyper-realm. EXZ’s practice is reflected in her interest in design, technology and digital visual culture, and interrogating new ways of seeing. 

EDUCATION

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2022 “Enter the Red”, Lateral Prompt, Miscellania, Melbourne, Australia

2022 “Digital Wonderscape” Art School Gradshow 2022, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia

2022 “Enter the Underworld”, Lateral Prompt, Miscellania, Melbourne, Australia

2022 “Skinless” WOMEN* NOW, Queen Victoria Women’s Centre, Melbourne, Australia

2022 “Translumia” Testing Grounds Public Art Park, Melbourne, Australia

2022 “Nanometamorph” After Walter Hopps, Platform Arts, Geelong, Australia

2022 “Translumia” The Cure, Preston, Melbourne, Australia

2021 “Simulations” RMIT MFA Annual Auction, Online

AWARDS

2022 The Möbius Universe, competition winner featuring Rhys Cousins, Swanston Library, RMIT University, Victoria.

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