Draft:Bz Zhang

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

Zhang's work is multi-disciplinary, including drawings, paintings, photographs, texts, objects, spaces, and maps. Zhang is trained in painting and architecture, and their work includes themes of racial justice and climate justice.

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
Zhang is a core organizer with the Design As Protest Collective and Dark Matter U. They are a licensed architect in the state of California.

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

Awards
Zhang has received fellowships, grants, and residencies from the Journal of Architectural Education, the Graham Foundation, the University of Southern California School of Architecture, where they were the inaugural Citizen Architect Fellow, Twenty Summers, Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, and Art Farm, among others.

Personal life
Zhang is Chinese-diasporic, queer, and nonbinary.