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Bz Zhang 张迪
Black-and-white photograph of Bz Zhang in their artist studio
Zhang in their Los Angeles studio in 2020
Born
Brenda Zhang

1991 (age 32–33)
United States
Alma materBrown University (BA), University of California, Berkeley (MArch)
Occupation(s)artist, architect, organizer, researcher, educator
Websitebz.studio

Bz Zhang 张迪 (born 1991) is an American artist and architect based in Tovaangar/Los Angeles, California.

Zhang's work includes drawings, paintings, photographs, texts, objects, spaces, and maps, using documentation and speculation as strategies to understand settler colonial pasts and presents and to imagine possible liberatory, anti-colonial futures.[1][2] Zhang is trained in painting and architecture, and they draw from their background in racial justice and climate justice organizing to inform their practice.[3][4][5]

Education[edit]

Zhang received a Bachelor of Arts with Honors in Visual Arts from Brown University[6] in Providence, Rhode Island and a Master of Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley College of Environmental Design, in Berkeley, California.[2][7]

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.[8][9]

Career[edit]

Zhang is a core organizer with the Design As Protest Collective[10] and Dark Matter U.[11] They are a licensed architect in the state of California.[12] As a project manager with the Los Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust,[13] they use tools of both community organizing and design and construction to work with communities across Los Angeles County toward environmental justice.[14][15]

Exhibitions[edit]

Zhang's work has been exhibited in Los Angeles,[16] New York,[17] San Francisco,[18] Providence,[5] and Philadelphia. Most recently, their work has been shown at CalArts[16] and the ONE Archives at the USC Libraries.[19][20] They have also exhibited as part of the Design As Protest Collective in YOU ARE A(NTI)RACIST,[21][10] in Chicago, Illinois, and as part of Dark Matter U in DMUxLisbon,[22] in the Trienal de Arquitectura de Lisboa in Lisbon, Portugal.

Awards[edit]

Zhang has received fellowships, grants, and residencies from the Journal of Architectural Education,[8] the Graham Foundation,[9] the University of Southern California School of Architecture, where they were the inaugural Citizen Architect Fellow,[23] Twenty Summers,[24][2] Gray Area Foundation for the Arts,[25][5] and Art Farm,[26] among others.

Publications[edit]

Zhang has been published in The Avery Review,[4] the Journal of Architectural Education,[1][27] Architect Magazine,[28][7] The Architect's Newspaper,[29] Critical Planning[30] at the University of California, Los Angeles, and others.

Lectures[edit]

Zhang has spoken at The Cooper Union,[31] the University of California, Berkeley,[32] City College of New York Spitzer School of Architecture,[33] California College of the Arts,[34][35][36] the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture,[37] and others.

Personal life[edit]

Zhang is Chinese-diasporic, queer, and nonbinary.[2]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Zhang, Bz (2024-01-19). "There is a body (mine), looking". Journal of Architectural Education.
  2. ^ a b c d Fulcher, Susannah Elisabeth (2022-05-11). "Bz Charts Stories of Home and Elsewhere". The Provincetown Independent.
  3. ^ "SSSAD Transcripts: Bz Zhang". Storytelling Spaces of Solidarity in the Asian Diaspora (SSSAD).
  4. ^ a b Zhang, Bz. "To Be a Body along the Perimeter". The Avery Review.
  5. ^ a b c "Artist Brenda (Bz) Zhang Examines Sense of Belonging In the Built Environment". Gray Area Foundation for the Arts. 2020-07-17.
  6. ^ "Growing community at the John Hope Settlement House". Brown University. 2012-08-02.
  7. ^ a b Architect Magazine (2020-08-10). "Next Progressives: Space Industries". Architect Magazine.
  8. ^ a b Albarazi, Heather (2022-05-06). "Inaugural JAE Fellows Announced". Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture.
  9. ^ a b "Graham Foundation > Grantees > Dark Matter U". Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. 2023.
  10. ^ a b Washington, Michele Y. (2022-04-13). "Chicago Exhibition Interrogates Design Justice and the Legacy of Racism". Architectural Record.
  11. ^ Pacheco, Antonio (Summer 2021). "Anti-racist Frameworks for Transforming Design Education". Oculus.
  12. ^ "Voices: BZ Zhang". Architect Magazine.
  13. ^ "About". Los Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust. Retrieved 2024-05-26.
  14. ^ Ozturk, Selen (2023-12-04). "Green Cities: A Matter of Life and Death". The Los Angeles Post. Retrieved 2024-05-26.
  15. ^ "A Community-Centered Approach to Advancing Park Policy". Next City. 2023-09-14.
  16. ^ a b Zoormandan, Taya (2022-06-21). "New Exhibition Interrogates Mapmaking in Tense Renderings: the will and won't of spatial logics". CalArts.
  17. ^ "NSFW at OUTLET, Brooklyn". COOL HUNTING®. 2016-03-14. Retrieved 2024-05-25.
  18. ^ "The End of You". Retrieved 2024-05-25.
  19. ^ "Safer at Home: Brenda Zhang (Bz)". Safer at Home: Exploring the ONE Archives Collection. Retrieved 2024-05-25.
  20. ^ Speier, Mia (2020-06-24). "LGBTQ online collection connects to pandemic, protests". Daily Trojan. Retrieved 2024-05-25.
  21. ^ "DAP Collective: YOU ARE A(NTI)RACIST". Columbia College.
  22. ^ 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.
  23. ^ "The Inaugural Class of the A-Lab Architecture Development Program Celebrates Commencement". USC School of Architecture. Retrieved 2024-05-25.
  24. ^ "Home and Elsewhere: Co-Creating an Atlas with Brenda Zhang (Bz)". Twenty Summers. 2022-04-13. Retrieved 2024-05-25.
  25. ^ "Experiential Space Research Lab Artists". Gray Area. Retrieved 2024-05-25.
  26. ^ "Art Farm past residents". www.artfarmnebraska.org. Retrieved 2024-05-25.
  27. ^ Henry, Lisa C.; Chi, Tonia Sing; Roudbari, Shawhin; Zhang, Bz (October 7, 2022). "Unseen Matters: Emerging Counter-Institutional Pedagogies". Journal of Architectural Education.
  28. ^ Chi, Tonia Sing; Zhang, Bz (2023-10-13). "Is There Such a Thing As Asian Diasporic Architecture?". Architect Magazine.
  29. ^ 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.
  30. ^ 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.
  31. ^ "Student Lecture Series | Brenda Zhang (Bz): The Master's Concerns". The Cooper Union. Retrieved 2024-05-25.
  32. ^ "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.
  33. ^ "Spring 2023 Sciame Lecture Series: Bz Zhang & christin hu '16". The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture. Retrieved 2024-05-25.
  34. ^ "F. Jason Campbell, Kevin Moultrie Daye, Celeste Martore, & Brenda Zhang (Bz) - CCA Portal". California College of the Arts.
  35. ^ "Architectures of Extraction: A Just Transition Dialogue - CCA Portal". California College of the Arts.
  36. ^ California College of the Arts - CCA (2022-03-17). [Un]commoning Architectural Language. Retrieved 2024-05-25 – via YouTube.
  37. ^ "Dark Matter University: Lessons in Anti-Racist Design Pedagogy". Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture.
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