Louise Zhang
About
Work
Public Art
Design
CV
Contact
Selected CV
LOUISE ZHANG
b. 1991
Lives and works on Bidjigal and Gadigal Land (Sydney), Australia
REPRESENTATION
N. Smith Gallery
art@nsmithgallery.com
+61 02 8356 9256
EDUCATION
2014 – 16 MFA by Research, University of New South Wales Art & Design
2009 – 13 BFA with Honours (First Class), College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales
AWARDS & GRANTS
2024 Finalist, Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney
2024 Finalist, Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, NSW
2023 Finalist, Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney
Finalist, 15 Artists, Moreton Bay Galleries and Museum, Redcliffe QLD
Ravenswood Womens Art Prize – Professional, Finalist, Sydney
2022 Finalist, Fisher's Ghost Art Award – Open Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney
2022 Finalist, Sir John Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, NSW
2021 Finalist, Callen Art Awards, Cowra Regional Art Gallery, NSW
2017 Finalist, NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship, Create NSW, Artspace, Sydney
2016 Finalist, Fisher's Ghost Art Award – Open Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney
2015 Winner, Fisher's Ghost Art Award – Sculpture category, Campbelltown Arts Centre,
Sydney
2015 Winner, Yen STAEDTLER Female Art Awards, Gaffa Gallery, Sydney
2014 Finalist, Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney
Highly Commended, Kudos Emerging Artist & Designer Award, Kudos Gallery, Sydney
RESIDENCIES
2019 Parramatta Artist Studios Resident, Parramatta
2017 Organhaus, China Residencies, Chongqing, China
2016 Institute for Provocation, Australia Council, Beijing, China
COLLECTIONS
Artbank
National Gallery of Victoria
Australian Parliament House
University of NSW
PUBLIC ART WORKS
2025 Ode to Yandhai, Nepean Hospital, Penrith, NSW
2023 Hidden Realms, Sydney Place, Sydney, NSW
2023 Chrysanthemum Waves, Sydney Place, Sydney, NSW
2020 Lunar New Year Moon Gates, Sydney Lunar Festival, Presented by 4A Centre of
Contemporary Asian Art, Darling Harbour and Darling Square, Sydney
2019 Lunar Lantern (Monkey), Sydney Lunar Festival, City of Sydney
Scholar Garden Public Artwork Installation, Batman Walk, Parramatta Lanes, Parramatta, NSW
(Commission by Parramatta Artist Studios)
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Queen Mother of the West, N.Smith Gallery, Sydney, NSW
2023 -
2024 See you in hell, Wagga Wagga with Jessica Bradford, Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga, NSW &
Blacktown Arts, Blacktown, NSW
2023 Louise Zhang: No dust left in the lillies, 4a Centre for Contemporary Art, Sydney
2022 Like an infertile python egg, we are trying, Artereal Gallery, Sydney
2020 -
2021 Personal Symbolism: The Art of Louise Zhang, National Gallery Victoria, Melbourne
2019 Bury the sun and all it's demons, Artereal Gallery, Sydney
2018 Art eats its young, Artereal Gallery, Sydney
2017 Soft Horror, Organhaus, Chongqing, China
2016 Monstrous Masses, Artereal Gallery, Sydney
New Year Rot!, Gaffa Gallery, Sydney
2014 Plomp, Artereal Gallery, Sydney
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 China – The past is present, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, NSW
Personal Mythologies, La Trobe Institute of Art, Bendigo, VIC
52 Actions (TOURING), Penrith Regional Gallery, Penrith, NSW
2020 Adaption, curated by Luke Letourneau, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, NSW
ROCO©LONIAL, curated by Gary Carsley, Lismore Regional Gallery, Lismore, NSW (TOURING)
2019 Ecologies of Being, curated by Tanushri Saha & Naomi Segal for Peril Magazine, Kudos Gallery,
Sydney
ROCO©LONIAL, curated by Gary Carsley in partnership with Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Bathurst
Art Regional Gallery, NSW (TOURING)
2018 Human Jerky: meatbags through the eyes of technology and Emotions invented by the Internet, Verge
Gallery, Sydney
2017 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship, Create NSW, Artspace, Woolloomooloo, Sydney
The Future Leaks Out curated by Tulleah Pearce, Performance Space, Carriageworks
Charmed Confusion curated by Guan Wei, Vermillion Gallery, Sydney
Art Central Hong Kong, Artereal Gallery, HK
Closing the Distance, curated by Sophia Cai, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Bundoora, VIC
2016 XII, Artereal Gallery, Sydney
Ereignis, curated by Lizzy Marshall, Cressnock Regional Gallery, Cressnock, NSW
2015 Work, rest, PLAY!, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Hawkesbury, NSW
From Old Ground, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst, NSW
A robot attempts to eat a chicken nugget, Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney
Right Here Right Now, Penrith Regional Gallery, Penrith, NSW
Paint15, Artereal Gallery, Sydney
biggie smalls, Casula Powerhouse, Casula, NSW
2014 Chinese Whispers, Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, Goulburn, NSW
Sydney Painting NOW, MOP Projects, Sydney
NO WERK, Trocadero Art Space, Footscray, VIC
Sugarcoated Realness, with Terrence Combos, Archive Space, Sydney
2013 FRESH CUTS, Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane
CLIENTS
4A Centre of Contemporary Asian Art
Apple
BVN Architecture
Clinique
City of Burwood
City of Sydney
City of Parramatta
City of Penrith
Darling Square
Estee Lauder
Hardie Grant Publishing
LEGO
Lendlease
MECCA Brands
Semi Permanent
The Social Outfit
Property NSW
Vogue Australia