Draft:Bz Zhang
Bz Zhang 张迪 | |
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Born | Brenda Zhang 1991 (age 32–33) United States |
Alma mater | Brown University (BA), University of California, Berkeley (MArch) |
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Website | bz |
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
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]Zhang is Chinese-diasporic, queer, and nonbinary.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e Fulcher, Susannah Elisabeth (2022-05-11). "Bz Charts Stories of Home and Elsewhere". The Provincetown Independent.
- ^ a b c "Artist Brenda (Bz) Zhang Examines Sense of Belonging In the Built Environment". Gray Area Foundation for the Arts. 2020-07-17.
- ^ "Growing community at the John Hope Settlement House". Brown University. 2012-08-02.
- ^ Architect Magazine (2020-08-10). "Next Progressives: Space Industries". Architect Magazine.
- ^ a b Albarazi, Heather (2022-05-06). "Inaugural JAE Fellows Announced". Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture.
- ^ a b Washington, Michele Y. (2022-04-13). "Chicago Exhibition Interrogates Design Justice and the Legacy of Racism". Architectural Record.
- ^ Pacheco, Antonio (Summer 2021). "Anti-racist Frameworks for Transforming Design Education". Oculus.
- ^ "Voices: BZ Zhang". Architect Magazine.
- ^ a b Zoormandan, Taya (2022-06-21). "New Exhibition Interrogates Mapmaking in Tense Renderings: the will and won't of spatial logics". CalArts.
- ^ "NSFW at OUTLET, Brooklyn". COOL HUNTING®. 2016-03-14. Retrieved 2024-05-25.
- ^ "The End of You". Retrieved 2024-05-25.
- ^ "Safer at Home: Brenda Zhang (Bz)". Safer at Home: Exploring the ONE Archives Collection. Retrieved 2024-05-25.
- ^ Speier, Mia (2020-06-24). "LGBTQ online collection connects to pandemic, protests". Daily Trojan. Retrieved 2024-05-25.
- ^ "DAP Collective: YOU ARE A(NTI)RACIST". Columbia College.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Graham Foundation > Grantees > Dark Matter U". Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. 2023.
- ^ "The Inaugural Class of the A-Lab Architecture Development Program Celebrates Commencement". USC School of Architecture. Retrieved 2024-05-25.
- ^ "Home and Elsewhere: Co-Creating an Atlas with Brenda Zhang (Bz)". Twenty Summers. 2022-04-13. Retrieved 2024-05-25.
- ^ "Experiential Space Research Lab Artists". Gray Area. Retrieved 2024-05-25.
- ^ "Art Farm past residents". www.artfarmnebraska.org. Retrieved 2024-05-25.