ARTIST | TABULA RASA GALLERY

Dan ZHU (b.1985, Jiangxi Province, China) currently lives and works in The Hague, Netherlands and Shenyang, China. She was the artist-in-residence at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam (2018-2019) and received the Dutch Royal Modern Painting Prize in 2020. Zhu's first institutional show will open at Museum Kranenburgh in the Netherlands in 2025.  Recent solo exhibitions include: The Hunter (Tabula Rasa Gallery at Art Basel Hong Kong, 2025),  Ferris Wheel Before Dawn, Tabula Rasa Gallery (Beijing, 2023); I thought it was dead, it thought it’s spring, Tabula Rasa Gallery (London, 2022); Night into Nights, C.o.C.A Award, Kunstinstituut Melly (Rotterdam, 2021); There is no size, Studio Continuo (Amsterdam, 2018). Recent group exhibitions include: Unveiled, No.9 Cork Street (London, 2023); TERRA, curated by Jenn Ellis and Emie Diamond (Burgundy, 2023); Paper Trails, Mendes Wood DM (Retranchement, 2023); Soul Mapping, Zeno X Gallery (Brussels, 2023); Through Frozen Soil, Desert and Glacier, the 5th Global Overseas Chinese Artists Exhibition, He Xiangning Art Museum (Shenzhen, 2022); Smoke and Murals, Schunck Musuem (Heerlen, 2021), among others. 
  
Dan Zhu works across the medium of drawings, paintings, and murals. Her works are widely collected by public institutions and private collections, including the NOG Collection of Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Schunck Museum, Ekard Collection, Pereira Collection, and C.o.C.A Foundation (Collectors of Contemporary Art, Rotterdam), to name a few. Zhu is the winner of C.o.C.A. Award (2020). Her mural painting commissioned by Schunck Museum was completed in 2021 in Heerlen, the Netherlands. Zhu studied at the Kunst and Design University in Hessen, Germany (2010-2020) and at KASK & School of Arts Ghent through the Erasmus program. 



RELATED EXHIBITIONS
Supper Club Art Fair, Hong Kong, 2024
Tabula Rasa: Unveiled, Frieze No.9 Cork Street, November 2023 TERRA, Group show, Burgundy, October 2023
Ferris Wheel Before Dawn, Solo show, May 2023
NADA Miami 2022, 2022
I thought it was dead; It thought it was spring, Solo show, May 2022

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