BIO
Beichen Zhang (b.1993, China) received his MFA from Maryland Institute College of Art in 2019 (United States). Focused on unveiling hidden histories through photography’s narrative structures, his artistic works often manifest in the form of photographs, essay films, mixed media installations and institutional research. Recently, he worked with a broad range of media to query and investigate the relationship of cultural heritages and Asian colonial history, archive and geopolitical vicissitude, and the identity’s fluidity within the post-colonialism context. His work is a set of a visual experience of a metaphorical method through personal narratives. Through the research of archaeology and anthropology, history, and other disciplines, he examines and builds a poetic visual language with its thoughts.
Zhang has exhibited in numerous international platforms such as the 8th Daegu Photo Biennale in South Korea, the 34th Image Forum Festival in Tokyo, the Trans-Southeast Asia Triennial, the SPE (Social of Photography Education) Media Festival and 2022 Jimei X Arles International Photo Festival, China’s Guangdong Times Museum, Fotografiska Shanghai, ShanghART Gallery, Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Modern Art Museum Shanghai, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, and Goethe-Institut Beijing, Art Museum at the University of Toronto and Trinity Square Video in Canada, as well as Asymmetry in the UK and Fotogalerie Wien in Austria.
He has received numerous international accolades and nominations, including the nominations for the Foam Paul Huf Award 2023, the nominations C/O Berlin Talent Award 2023, the Best Portfolio Prize of the 8th Singapore International Photography Festival (2022), the selected Artist of Top 20.21 Chinese Contemporary Photographer (2021), the Media Award of the 12th Three Shadows Photography Award (2020).
简介
张北辰，1993年出生于中国，于2019年获得美国马里兰艺术学院摄影与电子媒介艺术硕士学位。他专注于使用摄影的叙事结构揭开隐藏的历史，作品常以摄影，散文电影，混合媒介以及机构研究等形式进行。近期，他使用多种媒介进行质疑与调查文化遗产与亚洲殖民历史的关系，档案和地缘关系的变迁以及身份在后殖民主义语境中的流动性。他的作品是通过个人叙事，构架出一种隐喻和诗意的视觉体验，通过对考古学和人类学，历史，艺术跨学科的研究，以自身的思想重新来审视和构建一种诗意的视觉语言。
张的作品曾在多个国际平台进行展出，例如：第八届大邱摄影双年展（韩国），第34届日本东京实验影像论坛（东京），泛东南亚三年展，美国摄影教育研究协会影像节，第八届集美阿尔勒国际摄影节，中国的广东时代美术馆、Fotografiska 上海、上海香格纳画廊、明当代美术馆、艺仓美术馆、三影堂摄影艺术中心及德国歌德学院（北京）；加拿大多伦多大学艺术博物馆、Trinity Square Video，以及英国 Asymmetry、奥地利维也纳摄影画廊等。
他曾获得多个奖项与提名包括：“荷兰Foam Paul Huf Award 提名”（2023年），“柏林C/O人才奖提名”（2023年）， “第八届新加坡国际摄影节最佳作品奖”（2022年）， “第五届Top20中国新锐摄影师”（2021年）， “第十二届三影堂媒体关注奖”（2020年）。