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Draft:Bz Zhang

Bz Zhang 张迪
Black-and-white photograph of Bz Zhang in their artist studio
Zhang in their Los Angeles studio in 2020
Born
Brenda Zhang

1991 (age 32–33)
United States
Alma materBrown University (BA), University of California, Berkeley (MArch)
Occupations
  • artist
  • architect
  • organizer
  • educator
Websitebz.studio

Bz Zhang 张迪 (born 1991) is an American artist and architect based in Tovaangar/Los Angeles, California.

Zhang's work is multi-disciplinary, including drawings, paintings, photographs, texts, objects, spaces, and maps.[1] Zhang is trained in painting and architecture, and their work includes themes of racial justice and climate justice.[2][1]

Education

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Zhang received a Bachelor of Arts with Honors in Visual Arts from Brown University[3] in Providence, Rhode Island and a Master of Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley College of Environmental Design, in Berkeley, California.[1][4]

They have taught architecture at the University of Southern California, University at Buffalo, University of Michigan, California College of the Arts, and University of California, Berkeley.[5]

Career

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Zhang is a core organizer with the Design As Protest Collective[6] and Dark Matter U.[7] They are a licensed architect in the state of California.[8]

Exhibitions

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Zhang's work has been exhibited in Los Angeles,[9] New York,[10] San Francisco,[11] Providence,[2] and Philadelphia. Most recently, their work has been shown at CalArts[9] and the ONE Archives at the USC Libraries.[12][13] They have also exhibited as part of the Design As Protest Collective in YOU ARE A(NTI)RACIST,[14][6] in Chicago, Illinois, and as part of Dark Matter U in DMUxLisbon,[15] in the Trienal de Arquitectura de Lisboa in Lisbon, Portugal.

Awards

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Zhang has received fellowships, grants, and residencies from the Journal of Architectural Education,[5] the Graham Foundation,[16] the University of Southern California School of Architecture, where they were the inaugural Citizen Architect Fellow,[17] Twenty Summers,[18][1] Gray Area Foundation for the Arts,[19][2] and Art Farm,[20] among others.

Personal life

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Zhang is Chinese-diasporic, queer, and nonbinary.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e Fulcher, Susannah Elisabeth (2022-05-11). "Bz Charts Stories of Home and Elsewhere". The Provincetown Independent.
  2. ^ a b c "Artist Brenda (Bz) Zhang Examines Sense of Belonging In the Built Environment". Gray Area Foundation for the Arts. 2020-07-17.
  3. ^ "Growing community at the John Hope Settlement House". Brown University. 2012-08-02.
  4. ^ Architect Magazine (2020-08-10). "Next Progressives: Space Industries". Architect Magazine.
  5. ^ a b Albarazi, Heather (2022-05-06). "Inaugural JAE Fellows Announced". Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture.
  6. ^ a b Washington, Michele Y. (2022-04-13). "Chicago Exhibition Interrogates Design Justice and the Legacy of Racism". Architectural Record.
  7. ^ Pacheco, Antonio (Summer 2021). "Anti-racist Frameworks for Transforming Design Education". Oculus.
  8. ^ "Voices: BZ Zhang". Architect Magazine.
  9. ^ a b Zoormandan, Taya (2022-06-21). "New Exhibition Interrogates Mapmaking in Tense Renderings: the will and won't of spatial logics". CalArts.
  10. ^ "NSFW at OUTLET, Brooklyn". COOL HUNTING®. 2016-03-14. Retrieved 2024-05-25.
  11. ^ "The End of You". Retrieved 2024-05-25.
  12. ^ "Safer at Home: Brenda Zhang (Bz)". Safer at Home: Exploring the ONE Archives Collection. Retrieved 2024-05-25.
  13. ^ Speier, Mia (2020-06-24). "LGBTQ online collection connects to pandemic, protests". Daily Trojan. Retrieved 2024-05-25.
  14. ^ "DAP Collective: YOU ARE A(NTI)RACIST". Columbia College.
  15. ^ Murphy, Jack (2022-12-21). "In Lisbon, an installation by Dark Matter U makes connections between its members, works, and methods". The Architect’s Newspaper. Retrieved 2024-05-25.
  16. ^ "Graham Foundation > Grantees > Dark Matter U". Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. 2023.
  17. ^ "The Inaugural Class of the A-Lab Architecture Development Program Celebrates Commencement". USC School of Architecture. Retrieved 2024-05-25.
  18. ^ "Home and Elsewhere: Co-Creating an Atlas with Brenda Zhang (Bz)". Twenty Summers. 2022-04-13. Retrieved 2024-05-25.
  19. ^ "Experiential Space Research Lab Artists". Gray Area. Retrieved 2024-05-25.
  20. ^ "Art Farm past residents". www.artfarmnebraska.org. Retrieved 2024-05-25.

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