Yuyang Zhang (b.1993, Wuhan, China, he/him/his) is a Portland, Oregon based multi-disciplinary artist. Zhang holds a BS in Hospitality and Tourism Management from Purdue University and an MFA in Visual Studies from Pacific Northwest College of Art. His work focuses on diasporic experience, queer identity, and politics through recontextualization of historic propaganda materials and pop culture iconography.
Zhang has exhibited his work nationally and internationally, including solo exhibitions at Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, and Fuller Rosen Gallery, Philadelphia. Group exhibitions include Portland Chinatown Museum, Heaven Gallery in Chicago, B-Part Gallery in Berlin Germany, among others. he has been featured in publications including New York Times, Oregon ArtsWatch, The Philadelphia Inquirer, AINT-BAD, The Hand Magazine, Buckmxn Journal, BOOOOOOM. His work is part of the Soho House Portland, and Regional Arts & Cultural Council Public Arts Collections. Zhang works at Blue Sky, Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts as the Exhibitions & Outreach Coordinator.
Sources (pending factcheck) say Zhang is obsessed with Wanda Maximoff a.k.a. Scarlet Witch.
Education
2019 Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR — MFA in Visual Studies
2015 Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN — BS in Hospitality and Tourism Management
Solo Exhibitions
2023. live laugh lobotomize, Fuller Rosen Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2022 stupid little life, Blue Sky, Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts, Portland, OR
2021 umm no, Fuller Rosen Gallery, Portland, OR
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Re:Generation – Manifesting at the Peach Blossom Spring, Portland Chinatown Museum, Portland, OR
2023 Too Long; Didn’t Read, Heaven Gallery, Chicago, IL
2022 Smart Objects / Flattened Images, Well Well Project, Portland, OR
2022 Light Conversations Vol.2, Strange Paradise Portland, OR
2021 Pacific Northwest Drawers, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
2021 Winter Isolation, Too Tired Project, Woodstock, VT
2020 Uninvited Guest, Lodger Art Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2020 The Work Around, Portland, OR
2020 Urban Challenges, B-Part Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2020 Internal Gaze, Uroboros Glass Gallery, Portland, OR
2019 #tootiredboston, SMFA at Tufts University, Boston, MA
2019 Sculpture Through Ages, 511 Gallery, Portland OR
2019 Unlimited, Place Gallery, Portland, OR
2019 A Roam of The Mind, Sea World Culture and Arts Center, Shenzhen, China
2019 Thesis Exhibition, Uroboros Glass Gallery, Portland, OR
2018 Coaxial, Commons Gallery, Portland, OR
2017 PRE//SENSE, The Lodge Gallery, Portland, OR
2015 Purdue Photography Juried Exhibition, Tippecanoe Arts Federation, Lafayette, IN
Artist Residencies
2023. Portland Chinatown Museum Residency, Portland, OR
2018 Visual Studies Caldera Art Residency, Sisters, OR
Teaching & Lectures
2024 International School of Portland, Visiting Artist Lecture, Portland, OR
2023 In/Out of Place, University of Oregon Art History Student Association Symposium Guest Speaker, Eugene, OR
2020 Reynolds School District, Visiting Artist Workshop, Portland, OR
Publication & Press
2023 The Gallery Shows We Are Mostly Excited About This Fall, The Philadelphia Inquirer
2023 Can I Have Your Attention? A Review of “Too Long; Didn’t Read” at Heaven Gallery, New City Art
2022 This is Portland, Buckmxn Journal, ISBN 979-8-9854927-3-6
2022 Circles, BOOOOOOOM, ISBN : ISBN 978-1-7775614-3-7
2022 Yuyang Zhang's cut and paste revolution on Portland Tribune
2022 tinder notifications, political regimes, and Chromatica Oreos : an interview with Yuyang Zhang on Vagabond City
2022 Theaters for Frankensteins: Yuyang Zhang Interviewed on Variable West
2022 The Drawers, 2021, Blue Sky Publication
2021 umm no Exhibition Review on Art & About
2021 Interview by Off The Cost PDX
2021 AINT-BAD, Issue No. 15, ISBN : 978-1-944005-48-1
2021 The Hand Magazine, Issue No. 31
2019 Nothing is Interesting and Everything is Normal, Issue No.1
2019 Interview by Youthology
2016 My View Only: A Monologue of Cellphone Photography, CITIC Publishing Group, Beijing China, ISBN 978-7-5086-5644-1