Photography: Qingan Zhang
Artist Bio
Qingan Zhang is a multidisciplinary designer, theatre maker, and producer based in New York.
Her works explore narratives through layers of materials, objects, multimedia and body
movements. Qingan recently co-founded the non-profit interdisciplinary theatre company
Cellunova Productions. Her scenic design works have been staged at Chain Theatre, 14th Street Y
Theater, Central Square Theater and University Settlement. Her co-devising puppetry pieces have
been showcased at New Ohio Theatre Ice Factory, Dumbo Six Foot Platform, Rattlestick Theater
GFTF, HERE Arts Center SUBLETSERIES: CO-OP! and The Center at West Park Object
Movement Festival. Qingan received her MFA degree in interior design from Pratt Institute and
graduated from Boston College with dual BA degrees in Theatre and Psychology.
Artist Statement
Emerging as a multidisciplinary artist, theatre maker and designer who currently practices
in scenic and interior design fields the most, I am always interested in exploring crossboundary
opportunities to create integrated narratives through multimedia contents as well
as challenging the sensational bodily experience when one encounters spatial boundaries. I
seek to empower the captured moments within the storytelling through layers of materials,
objects, and body movements.
Meanwhile, as an immigrant artist coming from a cultural diaspora background, I am also
eager to seek a healing narrative that can arouse a collective bonding across cultures,
nations, races or genders. I am attached to explore motifs and metaphors that can connect
my works with a broader audience group through forms, emotions, and sensations. I am
always motivated by the moments that inspire me to explore collective narratives lost in
words and beyond.
Website: qinganz.com
Instagram: @ginqan
