"Drawing upon the figure of the Arhat in Buddhism as a contemporary analogy for liminality, hybridity, and spirituality, CONTINUATIONS reflects on the long umbilical histories of aesthetics and ascetics... amidst Zhu’s compositions churning of samsara—the cycle of death and rebirth to which life in the material world is bound—each Arhat sits as a constant embodied presence through meditation, amidst an ever-changing world."
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Transmissions of the Ascetic and Aesthetic by Danni Shen
BOMB Magazine interview by Heidi Howard
Strangers in Cyclicity in The Cormorant review by Annie Raab​
"Relief surfaces hover between architecture and organism, where growth and decay function as parallel movements and each surface behaves like soil. Merging the emotional register of painting with the tactile immediacy of sculptural objects, Zhu constructs substrates from pigment, circuitry, vine, and cast fragments—forms that serve simultaneously as image and relic."
Must See​
Past Present Projects
A Stage Within a Stage, DIMIN, NYC, 2023
"Inspired by his own experiences with art in religious spaces, Zhu is interested in the power of scale to influence the viewer’s body, allowing the artwork to unite the effects of architecture, storytelling and iconography."
Must See​
ART SPIEL
Alchemy of Mood and Matter, Harkawik Gallery, NYC, 2022
"I look to spaces of worship to learn how knowledge and worldviews can be transmitted through visual experiences, physical objects, and spaces... I integrate these lessons to share ideas on the porous nature of mind, matter, body, and spirit. In this way, my art examines how beliefs can travel and materialize between objects and people."
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Artist Catalogue, Ye Zhu, 2022
Produced by THAT Co.
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Underbelly Bloom
2021 | 144" x 95" | Mixed media on panel and spruce lumber
CONSTELLATION
Governor's Island
NYC, 2021
"The central activity, however, will be to complete CONSTELLATION, a public-art project and sound installation by the interdisciplinary artist Ye Zhu"
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Mediated Meditation
2021, 16:9 billboard at Kingsgate Project Space, London, UK
Mediated Mediation
2021 | 62" x 45" | Mixed media on panel
In the collection of Beth Rudin DeWoody,
The Bunker Art Space
A Universe, 2021, Strafford, NH
"For CONSTELLATION and A Universe, these installations bring to life blueprints from my own healing processes"
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—interview with Ricky Lee​