Zhidong Zhang is a visual artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Zhang’s practice embraces the reconstruction of visual materials as sites of alternate potential. His work explores how image-making becomes a form of intervention, reimagining narratives that cultivate overlooked modes of understanding and belonging.

Zhang’s work has recently been exhibited at Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway, Photo Elysée, MassArt Art Museum, Chengdu Contemporary Image Museum, and has appeared in publications including The Boston Globe, i-D Magazine, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Boston Art Review, and among others. Recent awards and fellowships include Creator Labs Photo Fund, Collective Futures Fund, and Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship. He has been an artist-in-residence at MASS MoCA, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Boston Center for the Arts, TILT Institute for the Contemporary Image, and a participant at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.

Zhang currently teaches at Dartmouth College and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University.

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