Raised among artists, Hong Chun Zhang received her B.F.A. from the prestigious Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing before moving to the United States in 1996 to pursue an M.A. from California State University, Sacramento in 2002 and an M.F.A. from the University of California, Davis in 2004. Hong currently lives in Lawrence, Kansas and has been represented by Haw Contemporary Gallery in the Kansas region since 2015.
For over twenty years, Hong’s studio practice has evolved from explorations of self to broader themes of gender, cross-culture, environment and more recently the social justice. Hong combines traditional skills with new concepts and draws from her own experiences in China as well as the United States. Both in form and in process, her work is richly layered with fine details in a massive scale. The trademark of Hong’s work has been developed during graduate school in America with large black and white charcoal drawings of long hair. She has used disembodied hair to explore her identity as an immigrant, woman and mother.
Raised among artists, Hong Chun Zhang received her B.F.A. from the prestigious Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing before moving to the United States in 1996 to pursue an M.A. from California State University, Sacramento in 2002 and an M.F.A. from the University of California, Davis in 2004. Hong currently lives in Lawrence, Kansas and has been represented by Haw Contemporary Gallery in the Kansas region since 2015.
For over twenty years, Hong’s studio practice has evolved from explorations of self to broader themes of gender, cross-culture, environment and more recently the social justice. Hong combines traditional skills with new concepts and draws from her own experiences in China as well as the United States. Both in form and in process, her work is richly layered with fine details in a massive scale. The trademark of Hong’s work has been developed during graduate school in America with large black and white charcoal drawings of long hair. She has used disembodied hair to explore her identity as an immigrant, woman and mother.
