RESUME

Ketty Haolin Zhang (b. Chaoyang) is an emerging interdisciplinary artist currently living and working as an uninvited guest on the unceded and ancestral territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, also known as Vancouver, Canada. She is a 1.5-generation immigrant, having spent half of her life so far in China and half in Canada. Informed by her diasporic experience, her art practice navigates her relationship with placelessness, liminal space and (non)belonging in a hyper-globalized world. She is interested in creating works that embody both closeness and distance - the simultaneous desire to belong and to resist being defined. 

Education

BA Double Major, Visual Arts + Art History, University of British Columbia, CAN

Interior Design (Residential + Commercial) Short Courses, Central Saint Martins, ENG

Select solo exhibitions

2025  Paintings by Ketty Haolin Zhang, Art Beatus Gallery & Consultancy, Vancouver, Canada

2024  The tide is higher or lower, she couldn’t tell you which, Deer Lake Gallery, Burnaby, Canada

2022  Elevator Music, TAS, Vancouver, Canada

2022  On the ninety-ninth night, Slice of Life, Vancouver, Canada

2019  Luxe, Hatch Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

2019  Gen 1.5, The Reach Gallery Museum, Abbotsford, Canada

Select group exhibitions

2025  Curatorial AiR exhibition by Robyn Ma, The Bows, Calgary, Canada

2025  Clean Slate, North Van Arts, North Vancouver, Canada

2025  Unbound, Centre of International Contemporary Art (CICA), Vancouver, Canada

2024  Echo Locator, Field Projects, New York, USA (online)

2024  Comfort in Place, August Studios, Vancouver, Canada

2024  Emerge 10th Anniversary Exhibition, The Reach Gallery Museum, Abbotsford, Canada

2024  New & Emerging, Seymour Art Gallery, North Vancouver, Canada

2024  Dumped, POSTERCHILD, Vancouver, Canada

2023  Mushin, Casa Lü, Mexico City, Mexico

2023  Curator’s Sauna, Canton-Sardine, Vancouver, Canada

2022  Tropical Cafe holiday art auction, Centre A, Vancouver, Canada

2021  CARRY-ON! holiday art auction, Centre A, Vancouver, Canada

2021  Fraser Valley Biennial, The Reach Gallery Museum, Abbotsford, Canada

2020  HEAR US NOW!, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada (online)

2020  10500km to Beirut fundraiser auction, Vancouver, Canada (online)

2018  Arts 2018, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, Canada

2018  UNDERGROWTH, UBC BFA/BA Graduating Exhibition, Audain Art Centre, Vancouver, Canada

2017  Arts 2017, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, Canada

2017  Ipseity, HiVE, Vancouver, Canada

2016  Vancouver Art Book Fair, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

2016  Print Ready VII: Stockholm Edition, Minibar, Stockholm, Sweden

Residencies & awards

2025  Shortlisted: CICA Vancouver X Jelina Couture International Art Awards Exhibition, Canada

2024  BC Arts Council Early Career Development Grant, Canada

2023  Casa Lü Regular Residency, Mexico City, Mexico

2023  Tools for Change Residency, Vancouver, Canada

2022  Joya arte + ecología Artist Residency, Vélez Blanco, Spain

2020  Emerging Artist Residency Award, Spark Box Studio, Picton, Canada

2018  Honourable Mention: Arts 2018, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, Canada

2017  First Place Award: Arts 2017, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, Canada

Select projects & public art

2025  Window display, 4by4on5th, Vancouver, Canada

2024  Outdoor art installation for Interstice:00, Vancouver, Canada

2024  Remy Martin 300th Anniversary living painting auction, Mount Pleasant Vintage & Provisions, Vancouver, Canada

2024  Art + Feminism Edit-a-thon tote bag design, commissioned by Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

2023  Outdoor mural: Sasq’ets rides the Milky Way, The Reach Gallery Museum: CITI/SEEN Program, Abbotsford, Canada

2021  Outdoor Exhibition series: luxe, Art Gallery of Evergreen, Coquitlam, Canada

2018  Staff area reanimation project for UBC Bookstore, Vancouver, Canada

2018  Outdoor mural series, UBC West Parkade, Vancouver, Canada

2018  Window display: #filter29, I: project space, Beijing Design Week, China

2016  Outdoor mural series, City of Burnaby and Heights Merchants Association, Burnaby, Canada

Feature

2025  "Peach Blossom Spring", PRISM International, 63.1: Spells

2021  "Familial Writing", Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas, 6.3, Concordia University

2021  "Hey", Feels Zine, issue 15: Falling out of Love

2020  Long Distance Picnic, Perpendicular Play, vol. 5, What Lab

2018  Carnation Zine, vol. 1

2018  "Vestiges of Transnational Belonging: Marking the Millennial Diasporic Identity in Ketty Zhang’s Works" by Alexandra Trim, The Undergraduate Journal of Art History, issue 9, UBC