张皓琳 Ketty Haolin Zhang

ACENTRICSPACE第165位驻地艺术家

2025年九月驻地艺术家
张皓琳

No. 165 ACENTRICSPACE Resident Artist

2025 September Resident Artist
Ketty Haolin Zhang

关于艺术家 About the Artist

（加拿大 Canada）

www.kettyhaolinzhang.com

张皓琳（生于辽宁朝阳）是一位现居温哥华的视觉艺术家。迄今为止，她一半的人生在中国度过，另一半在加拿大度过，而她的创作也是基于自己作为‘‘1.5代’’移民的流散经历。她热衷于创作既能体现亲密感又能展现情感张力的作品。过去两年，她通过描绘夜景的绘画，来探讨无地性、阈限性和（无）归属感，同时也创作了小型的现成物雕塑，以探索个人历史、欲望和虔诚等话题。

在最近接受《Dazed》杂志采访时，她说道：“我在思考归属感这个话题时，不想只是以自己的文化背景为中心，而是希望通过描绘人们的活动场所和行为，去思考我们是如何在大千世界中塑造自己的。我后来才意识到，自己的夜景画中，大多数人物都是没有面孔的；或许是因为我长期纠结于我是谁、我想成为谁的问题，以至于我画中的人物也陷入了同样的不确定性之中，不管他们是独自一人还是与他人共处。我认识到，这种不确定性也是我们彼此联系的纽带，而寻找归属感的过程与得到归属感本身一样有意义。”

张皓琳拥有不列颠哥伦比亚大学视觉艺术和艺术史双学士学位。她的作品曾在加拿大、美国、墨西哥和中国展出。

Ketty Haolin Zhang (b. Chaoyang, Liaoning) is a Vancouver-based visual artist. Her practice is rooted in her diasporic experience as a 1.5-generation immigrant, having spent half of her life so far in China and half in Canada. She is interested in creating works that embody both intimacy and emotional tension. For the past two years, she has been making paintings of nighttime scenes that navigate placelessness, liminality, and (non)belonging, as well as found object sculptures that explore personal history, desire, and devotion.

In a recent interview with Dazed, she says, “I want to think about belonging without centring it on cultural specificity, but instead through the places and behaviours that shape how we move through the world. It wasn’t until later than I realized most figures in my nighttime paintings were faceless; maybe it’s because I struggled for so long with who I was and who I wanted to become that the figures I paint are also caught in the same uncertainty, whether alone or in the company of others. I want to recognize that this uncertainty is also what connects us, and that the search for belonging can be as meaningful as belonging itself.”

Zhang holds a BA Double Major in Visual Art and Art History from the University of British Columbia. Her work has been exhibited in Canada, the US, Mexico, and China.

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