Ruiqi Zhang
Media
MFA, Kinetic Imaging, Virginia Commonwealth University
BFA, Visual Communication Design, Luxun Academy of Fine Arts
Ruiqi Zhang (b. Liaoyang, China) is a multimedia artist and educator who works with moving images, 3D assets, installations, and game engines to explore the complexity of emerging technology and computation as an alternative narrative container. His work highlights the ability of people today to read complex information and its impact on our daily lives while forming new modes of politics, aesthetics, and consciousness.
Ruiqi’s work has been exhibited internationally at venues such as Times Art Museum (Chengdu, China), Imaginary Z Gallery (Hangzhou, China), Stove Works (Chattanooga, US), CICA Museum (Gimpo-si, Korea), The Anderson (Richmond, US), Towson University (Baltimore, US), Cardinal Space (Baltimore, US), and Thatalright Art Space (Taipei, Taiwan), and others.