Ang Ziqi Zhang’s small to midsize panels in soft hues and bold neons take shape within a push-pull relation that creates spaces between abstraction and subtle figuration, desire and control, rational and affect. Investigating semiotics of Eastern culture and Western Capitalist consumer society through a subjective lens of her own understanding and interests, the base structure of her paintings often develops by incorporating signs, symbols, diagrams and language. Other paintings originate in abstract thought, technology or visual references of everyday experiences that lay the foundation for her multi-layered paintings. Light and blissful, like strobe lights moving through a nightclub, the paintings draw parallels to Ziqi Zhang’s engagement in club culture and her affinity for techno and electronic music.

Ang Ziqi Zhang (b. 1994, Brampton, Canada) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She received her MFA in painting and printmaking from Yale School of Art in May 2023. She has had solo and two-person exhibitions at Iowa, Brooklyn; LVL3, Chicago; and Produce Model Gallery, Chicago. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Silke Lindner, New York; Chapter, New York; Derosia, New York; Jan Kaps Gallery, Cologne, Germany; Apparatus Projects, Chicago; Good Weather Gallery, Chicago; Night Club Gallery, Minneapolis; Logan Center Exhibitions, Chicago; Each Modern, Taipei; and Fonda, Leipzig, Germany; among others. Ziqi Zhang will have her first institutional solo exhibition at Neuer Essener Kunstverein in Essen, Germany, in the fall of 2024.