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NINGXIA ZHANG

Ningxia Zhang 张宁夏 (b. 1990, Hubei, China) is an artist and technologist based in New York City. With a background in computer science and technology, she works across digital fabrication, virtual world building, performance, and moving images, with a focus on the complexity of human interiority—pain, desire, nostalgia, and grief.

Often created from her most intimate personal histories, as well as research into Eastern and Western philosophies, behavioral biology, and neuroscience, her work seeks to invoke embodied experiences, critical contemplation, and a sense of oneness. Amid the rapid progression of artificial intelligence, she aims to foreground the complexity and uniqueness of being human, with all of its messiness, inefficiency, agony, contradictions, and profound capacity to empathize and love.

In an age marked by increasing isolation and polarization, as well as the existential crises we are collectively facing, the artist feels a renewed urgency to resort to collective healing and connection through fundamental human values.

EDUCATION
2014 M.Sc. in Computer Science, Specialized in Human-Computer Interaction, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
2012 B.Sc. in Computer Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
2012 B. Eng. in Software Engineering, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

EXHIBITIONS
2024 SURVIVING TOGETHER, A.P.E. Ltd. Gallery, Northampton, MA
2024 Being Human, The Painting Center, New York, NY
2022 Residue, GREY STATE, online
2021 Contemporary Practices, SVA Flatiron Gallery, New York, NY
2020 COVID IMMEMORY - Diaries, Online

RESIDENCIES
2021 Contemporary Practices, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY