Zhang Ruyi's work centres around everyday logic, revealing the relationships and interactions between individuals, materials and space. Over the past decade, Zhang Ruyi has developed a precise and delicate sculptural material language. Engaging the grammar of the built environment, she creates installations and sculptures that evoke a post-apocalyptic aesthetic of detachment. Zhang’s work occupies a unique space that reconciles artifacts, the industrial experience, and urban life.
Zhang Ruyi (b.1985 in Shanghai, CN) lives and works in Shanghai, CH. She graduated with an BA in 2007 and an MFA in Synthesized Materials In 2012 both from The Fine Art College of Shanghai University. She has exhibited extensively across China, Hong Kong, North America and the UK with her most recent solo show being Decoration: Building Debris, Sifang Art Museum, Shanghai. She has also been a part of multiple group shows including, ON/OFF 2021 Carousel of progress, He Art Museum, Guangdong, and Metal, Wood, Water, Fire and Earth, Pace Gallery, Los Angeles.
