Yiding Zhang was born in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China. After receiving a bachelor's degree in oil painting from Hubei Institute of Fine Arts in 2014, Yiding received a master's degree in 2017 from Chelsea School of Art, University of the Arts London, a master's degree in contemporary Art Studies from Hubei Institute of Fine Arts in 2018, and MFA Sonic Art from Brooklyn College of City University of New York in 2020. Until now, he has been studying Art & Design Dprof, Swansea College of Art and Design, UWTSD, UK. In 2021, he won the K11 Art 11 Prize, (special recommendation from the judges).



He is a guitarist, independent musician and new media artist. His works mainly involve installation, video, painting, sound sampling and audio-visual art performance. It also actively explores the complex situation of the "identity and discourse power" of sound in the field of modern life. In recent years, it has begun multiple experiments and explores the space and narrative of sound in immersive theater.






Education



2022 — 2025

Wales Institute of Science and Art, University of Wales Trinity Saint David,

Doctorate of Art & Design



2018 — 2020

Brooklyn College, The City University of New York, MFA Sonic Arts



2016 — 2017

Chelsea College of Arts, University of Arts London, MA Fine Arts



2015 — 2018

Hubei Institute of Fine ArtsOil Painting



2010 — 2014

Hubei Institute of Fine ArtsOil Painting









Selected Exhibitions



2023

“Floating” contemporary art exhibition, The bomb factory gallery, London, UK




2022

“Eliminate”——dong X 3, Wuhan

New Youth——The 4th College Experimental Art Literature Exhibition——Tao Xi Chuan Art Museum, Jingdezhen




2021

"In Wuhan" Young Artists Invitational Exhibition——Tanghu Art Museum, Wuhan

Research Exhibition: Curatorial Proposal Shortlisted Exhibition——Beijing OCAT  Research Center, Beijing

The Invisible Sounds, P8 Planet Summer Art Residency——Museum of Waste, Changsha

Art 11 Prize 2020 -- The first K11 Young Art Creation Award, K11 Art Village, Wuhan




2020

Local Soundscape——Sound Geography of Suzhou, Hanshan Art Museum, Suzhou




2019

"Coordinate Transformation" ——Visible Gallery, Beijing

“WHEN BLACK SWALLOWS RED”——LA GALLERIA, New York , USA

“IMAGINED COMMUNITIES”——-THE CRYPT GALLERY,  London, UK



2018

"Media Migration”——The 2nd China Hechuan Fishing City International New Media Art Festival, Chongqing




2017

"Inter-youth" Youth Painting Exhibition, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou

Group exhibition of Emerging artists in London——Sunny Art Centre, London, UK




2016

Lab Box——Tokyo Sound Project YYYY-S, Japan




2014

"Journey of a Thousand Miles" -- Excellent Graduation Exhibition of Undergraduate Works

from Key Fine Arts colleges in China, Hubei Institute of Fine Arts Art Museum, Wuhan







Awards



Art 11 Prize——The 1st K11 Young Art Creation Award, recommended by judges

“Inter-youth”——International Youth Painting Exhibition of China Academy of Art, Theme Prize