Ketty Haolin Zhang
Artist member since 2022
Surrey, BC
Ketty Haolin Zhang (b. Chaoyang, China) is a visual artist currently based in so-called Vancouver, Canada. Informed by her diasporic experience as a 1.5-generation immigrant, Ketty's work navigates her relationship with placelessness to understand what it means to "belong everywhere and nowhere" in a hyper-globalized world. Translating her reflections with images of nightlife, domestic objects and liminal spaces, she aims to unpack the sense of belonging and safety associated with the in-between, and to explore how discourses of place and home are entangled with cultural identity.
Ketty holds a BA in Visual Arts from the University of British Columbia (2018) and has exhibited at Vancouver Art Book Fair, Beijing Design Week, Canton-Sardine, Surrey Art Gallery, The Reach Gallery Museum, Hatch Gallery among others.
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Favourite movie
Mulholland Drive
In a previous life I was (a) ...
tabby
When did you start making art, and why?
after my first breakup
I'm really good at making (a) ...
lamb biryani
Beverage of choice
milk tea with pearls half sweet light ice
Which piece of art you've created is your favourite, and why?
the most recent one
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2022
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Press
2018
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Residencies
2022
2023
Education
2018
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