Born in Hefei, Anhui, 1989, Zhang Wenxin currently lives and works in Hangzhou. She received her bachelor’s degree in landscape architecture from Jinan University (2010) and her master’s degree in fine art from California College of the Arts (2013). Zhang considers herself as a terrain builder. She works not to construct landscapes and wonders, but to depict human and non-human minds in the form of mixed media. She uses images, installations, writing, and soundscapes as tools to create process-oriented perceptual experiences, and often uses her work to guide the viewer to fall off the plane of the everyday and enter into a contemplation on time and transcendent in a liminal space-time.

Her recent solo exhibitions include: “Notes of the Hollow” (Mud Gallery, Shanghai, 2022), “SubSurfacesaṃsvedaja” (Imagokinetics, Hangzhou, 2020), “Filling the Klein Bottle” (as an artist duo with Xuan Ye, InterAccess, Toronto, 2020), “The Map of the Mapping” (Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, 2019), “Phi” (as an artist duo with Jing Yu, Taikang Space Terrace Project, Beijing, 2019), “Time Burns” (Surplus Space, Wuhan, 2017), “Beast by the Waterfall Guesthouse” (Artist Telivision Gallery, San Francisco, 2014). Recent group exhibitions include: “Earth Heat Flow” (Beijing Biennale, Beijing, 2023), “The Pieces I Am” (UCCA Edge, Shanghai, 2022), “Imaging Our Futures” (Photofairs Shanghai, 2021), “TEMPORAL STACK, THE DEEP SENSOR” (Up Art Space, Guiyang, 2021), OCAT Biennale “Boomerang” (OCAT, Shenzhen, 2021), Guangzhou Image Triennial “Intermingling Flux” (Guangdong Museum, Guangzhou, 2021), “Space Oddity” (UCCA Dune, Qinhuangdao, 2021), “Play Societies: Wolves, Lynx and Ants” (Hyundai Motor Studio, Beijing, 2020), “China Imagined” (Breda Photo, Breda, Netherlands, 2020). She was an artist in residence and exhibited at Wassaic Project (Wassaic, NY, 2013), Woodstock Center for Photography (Woodstock, NY, 2014), The Thicket (Darien, US, 2017) and Muffatwerk (Munich, Germany, 2019). Her curatorial practice includes APAture Art Festival (San Francisco, 2013), Border Resonance (Goethe Institute, Beijing, 2018), A Room that Releases Spores (THE SHOUTER, Shanghai, 2021), Stay Art Festival (Panel series, Nanchang, Jiangxi, 2020–2022).