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Zhang is a core organizer with the Design As Protest Collective and Dark Matter U.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dark Matter University |url=https://oculus.aiany.org/oculus-summer-2021/dark-matter-university/ |access-date=2024-05-25 |website=Oculus Summer 2021 |language=en}}</ref> They are a licensed architect in the state of [[California]]. As a project manager with the Los Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust,<ref>{{Cite web |title=About |url=https://www.lanlt.org/about |access-date=2024-05-26 |website=Los Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust |language=en-US}}</ref> they use tools of both community organizing and design and construction to work with communities across [[Los Angeles County, California|LA County]] toward [[environmental justice]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ozturk |first=Selen |date=2023-12-04 |title=Green Cities: A Matter of Life and Death – The Los Angeles Post |url=https://lapost.us/?p=61473 |access-date=2024-05-26 |language=en}}</ref> Zhang is [[Overseas Chinese|Chinese-diasporic]], [[queer]], and [[Non-binary gender|nonbinary]].<ref name=":0" />
Zhang is a core organizer with the Design As Protest Collective and Dark Matter U.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dark Matter University |url=https://oculus.aiany.org/oculus-summer-2021/dark-matter-university/ |access-date=2024-05-25 |website=Oculus Summer 2021 |language=en}}</ref> They are a licensed architect in the state of [[California]]. As a project manager with the Los Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust,<ref>{{Cite web |title=About |url=https://www.lanlt.org/about |access-date=2024-05-26 |website=Los Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust |language=en-US}}</ref> they use tools of both community organizing and design and construction to work with communities across [[Los Angeles County, California|Los Angeles County]] toward [[environmental justice]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ozturk |first=Selen |date=2023-12-04 |title=Green Cities: A Matter of Life and Death – The Los Angeles Post |url=https://lapost.us/?p=61473 |access-date=2024-05-26 |language=en}}</ref> Zhang is [[Overseas Chinese|Chinese-diasporic]], [[queer]], and [[Non-binary gender|nonbinary]].<ref name=":0" />


== Education ==
== Education ==

Revision as of 01:40, 26 May 2024

Bz Zhang 张迪 is an American artist and architect based in Los Angeles, California.

Through drawings, paintings, photographs, texts, objects, spaces, and maps, their work uses documentation and speculation as strategies to understand settler colonial pasts and presents and to imagine possible liberatory, anti-colonial futures.[1] Trained in painting and architecture, they draw equally from their background in racial justice and climate justice organizing in creating new narratives and places.[2]

Bz Zhang 张迪
Black-and-white photograph of Bz Zhang in their artist studio
Born (1991-11-28) November 28, 1991 (age 33)
United States
Alma materBrown University (BA), University of California, Berkeley (MArch)
Occupation(s)artist, architect, organizer, researcher, educator
Websitebz.studio

Zhang is a core organizer with the Design As Protest Collective and Dark Matter U.[3] They are a licensed architect in the state of California. As a project manager with the Los Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust,[4] they use tools of both community organizing and design and construction to work with communities across Los Angeles County toward environmental justice.[5] Zhang is Chinese-diasporic, queer, and nonbinary.[6]

Education

Zhang received a Bachelor of Arts with Honors in Visual Arts from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island and a Master of Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley College of Environmental Design, in Berkeley, California.

They have taught architecture at the University of Southern California, University at Buffalo, University of Michigan, California College of the Arts, and University of California, Berkeley.

Career

Exhibitions

Zhang's work has been exhibited in Los Angeles,[7] New York,[8] San Francisco,[9] Providence, and Philadelphia. Most recently, their work has been shown at CalArts[7] and the ONE Archives at the USC Libraries.[10][11] They have also exhibited as part of the Design As Protest Collective in YOU ARE A(NTI)RACIST,[12][13] in Chicago, Illinois, and as part of Dark Matter U in DMUxLisbon,[14] in the Trienal de Arquitectura de Lisboa in Lisbon, Portugal.

Awards

Zhang has received fellowships and residencies from the Journal of Architectural Education,[15] the Graham Foundation,[16] the University of Southern California School of Architecture,[17] Twenty Summers,[18][6] Gray Area Foundation for the Arts,[19] and Art Farm,[20] among others.

Publications

Zhang has been published in The Avery Review,[21] the Journal of Architectural Education,[1][22] Architect Magazine,[23] The Architect's Newspaper,[24] Critical Planning[25] at the University of California, Los Angeles, and others.

Lectures

Zhang has spoken at The Cooper Union,[26] the University of California, Berkeley,[27] City College of New York Spitzer School of Architecture,[28] California College of the Arts,[29][30][31] and others.

References

  1. ^ a b Zhang, Bz (2024-01-19). "There is a body (mine), looking". Journal of Architectural Education. Retrieved 2024-05-25.
  2. ^ "SSSAD Transcripts: Bz Zhang". sssad.space. Retrieved 2024-05-25.
  3. ^ "Dark Matter University". Oculus Summer 2021. Retrieved 2024-05-25.
  4. ^ "About". Los Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust. Retrieved 2024-05-26.
  5. ^ Ozturk, Selen (2023-12-04). "Green Cities: A Matter of Life and Death – The Los Angeles Post". Retrieved 2024-05-26.
  6. ^ a b Fulcher, Susannah Elisabeth (2022-05-11). "Bz Charts Stories of Home and Elsewhere". The Provincetown Independent. Retrieved 2024-05-25.
  7. ^ a b "New Exhibition Interrogates Mapmaking in Tense Renderings: the will and won't of spatial logics - 24700". 2022-06-21. Retrieved 2024-05-25.
  8. ^ "NSFW at OUTLET, Brooklyn". COOL HUNTING®. 2016-03-14. Retrieved 2024-05-25.
  9. ^ "The End of You". Retrieved 2024-05-25.
  10. ^ "Safer at Home: Brenda Zhang (Bz)". Safer at Home: Exploring the ONE Archives Collection. Retrieved 2024-05-25.
  11. ^ Speier, Mia (2020-06-24). "LGBTQ online collection connects to pandemic, protests". Daily Trojan. Retrieved 2024-05-25.
  12. ^ "DAP Collective: YOU ARE A(NTI)RACIST". www.colum.edu. Retrieved 2024-05-25.
  13. ^ "Columbia College Exhibition | 2022-04-13 | Architectural Record". www.architecturalrecord.com. Retrieved 2024-05-25.
  14. ^ Murphy, Jack (2022-12-21). "In Lisbon, an installation by Dark Matter U makes connections between its members, works, and methods". The Architect’s Newspaper. Retrieved 2024-05-25.
  15. ^ Albarazi, Heather (2022-05-06). "Inaugural JAE Fellows Announced". Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture. Retrieved 2024-05-25.
  16. ^ "Graham Foundation > Grantees > Dark Matter U". www.grahamfoundation.org. Retrieved 2024-05-25.
  17. ^ "The Inaugural Class of the A-Lab Architecture Development Program Celebrates Commencement". USC School of Architecture. Retrieved 2024-05-25.
  18. ^ "Home and Elsewhere: Co-Creating an Atlas with Brenda Zhang (Bz)". Twenty Summers. 2022-04-13. Retrieved 2024-05-25.
  19. ^ "Experiential Space Research Lab Artists". Gray Area. Retrieved 2024-05-25.
  20. ^ "Art Farm past residents". www.artfarmnebraska.org. Retrieved 2024-05-25.
  21. ^ Zhang, Bz. "To Be a Body along the Perimeter". The Avery Review. Retrieved 2024-05-25.
  22. ^ Henry, Lisa C.; Chi, Tonia Sing; Roudbari, Shawhin; Zhang, Bz (October 7, 2022). "Unseen Matters: Emerging Counter-Institutional Pedagogies". Journal of Architectural Education.
  23. ^ Chi, Tonia Sing; Zhang, Bz (October 13, 2023). "Is There Such a Thing As Asian Diasporic Architecture?".
  24. ^ Zhang, Bz (2023-10-19). "WAI Architecture Think Tank's A Manual of Anti-racist Architecture Education offers tools supporting antiracist practice". The Architect’s Newspaper. Retrieved 2024-05-25.
  25. ^ Liang, Lillian; Ramirez, Emma; Reyna, Edgar; Zhang, Brenda (2023). "The El Segundo Refinery: Whiteness, Imperialist Expansion and Extractive Infrastructures". Critical Planning. 26 (1). doi:10.5070/CP826159868.
  26. ^ "Student Lecture Series | Brenda Zhang (Bz): The Master's Concerns". The Cooper Union. Retrieved 2024-05-25.
  27. ^ "Architecture Equity Steering Committee hosts Dark Matter University in event series on social justice in design". UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design. Retrieved 2024-05-25.
  28. ^ "Spring 2023 Sciame Lecture Series: Bz Zhang & christin hu '16". The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture. Retrieved 2024-05-25.
  29. ^ "F. Jason Campbell, Kevin Moultrie Daye, Celeste Martore, & Brenda Zhang (Bz) - CCA Portal". portal.cca.edu. Retrieved 2024-05-25.
  30. ^ "Architectures of Extraction: A Just Transition Dialogue - CCA Portal". portal.cca.edu. Retrieved 2024-05-25.
  31. ^ California College of the Arts - CCA (2022-03-17). [Un]commoning Architectural Language. Retrieved 2024-05-25 – via YouTube.
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