YE QIN ZHU

"Bok Choy Astrology", 2024

Handmade paper and acrylic paint, made with the help of Amy Jacobs at Diue Donne

17 ¾ x 12 x 1 inches (45.1 x 30.5 x 2.5 cm)

Courtesy of the Artist

Selected by Tiffany Shi

Based in Brooklyn, NY, Ye Qin Zhu is an interdisciplinary artist focused in painting, public art, and social practice. Zhu has had solo exhibitions at DIMIN Gallery (2023) and Harkawik Gallery (2022) in New York, NY, and Moskowitz Bayse (2021) in Los Angeles, CA; a comprehensive solo at the Andrew Freedman Home in Bronx, NY (2022); exhibited in group shows at The Sugar Hill Museum in Harlem, NY (2022-23);  Gavlak Gallery in LA (2023); Galerie Marguo in Paris, France and NADA New York and Miami (2022, 2023); Harper’s Gallery (2023, 2021)and James Fuentes (2021) in NY; created a tribute art installation for healthcare workers in the Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT (2022); designed a billboard at Kingsgate Project Space in London, UK (2021); and designed two large-scale public art installations: one in Strafford, NH called A Universe and the other in Governors Island, New York titled CONSTELLATION (2021). Zhu is a founding and leading member of Haven Arts Park (2020-2023), whose mission is to remediate a contaminated land into a healing-garden art-park (recipient of Andrew Mellon Foundation grant, 2022-2023). Zhu has been the subject of interviews for publications in the New York Times, Curator Guide, and Arts Council of Greater New Haven.