CV
Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom
2026 on going
Master of Research
Visual Communication Pathway
2023 - 2024
Royal College of Art, London, United Kingdom
Diploma
Korean Language and Literature
2019
Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
Bachelor of Art
Creative Advertising
2015 - 2019
Kings College London
Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, Beijing, China
Gallery Assistant
Exhibition Set-up; Hospitality 2025
Hong Kong Lanyao International Co., Limited
Business owner
2020 – Present
Freelance Graphic Designer & Art Tutor
Creative Concept /Visual Communication
2018 - Present
Exhibition/Performance
Artist Collaboration
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Indesign
Final Cut Pro
Touch Designer
Cinema 4D
Keyshot10
Rhinoceros
Unreal Engine
Figma
International Experience
Visual Systems
Research & Analysis
Process Improvement
Teamwork
Leadership
Immersive Design
Visual Communication
Creative Direction
Problem-Solving
Client Relations
An d. Mole 9, 10317 Berlin, Germany
04.09.2026 - 27.09.2026
A Room for Unbecoming Women
The Handbag Factory, 3 Loughborough Street, London, United Kingdom, SE11 5TB
30.07.2026 - 03.08.2026
TABOO
Bradley House, 26 ST Albans LN, London, United Kingdom, NW11 7QE
23.07.2026 - 13.08.2026
THE WRONG International Biennale Transient Info
Virtual Worldwide
01.11.2025 - 31.03.2026
Visions in the Nunnery 2025
Bow Road & Nunnery Gallery, 181-183 Bow Road, London, United Kingdom, E3 2SJ
04.10.2025 - 09.11.2025
The Green Grammar
art'otel London Hoxton, 1-3 Rivington Street, London, United Kingdom, EC2A 3DT
27.06.2025 - 29.06.2025
Pieces of Me
Artworks East Gallery, 32-34 Osier Way, London, United Kingdom, E10 5SB
06.06.2025 - 04.07.2025
Behind the Closed Doors
Safehouse, 137 Copeland Road, London, United Kingdom, SE15 3SN
31.05.2025 - 03.06.2025
Permeate
West/Alte WU, Augasse 2-6, 1090 Vienna, Austria
29.03.2025 - 03.04.2025
Secret Salon: Electric Ladyland
Caveside Cl, Old Hill, Chislehurst, Kent, United Kingdom, BR7 5NL
14.12.2024
Instante
Echos Studio, Rua Pelotas, 400 - Vila Mariana, Sao Paulo, Brazil
07.12.2024 - 20.12.2024
The Dark Side
Boomer Gallery, 150 Tooley Street, London, United Kingdom, SE1 2TU
08.11.2024 - 13.11.2024
MYSTICAL
Fox Yard Studio, 6 Old Fox Yard, Stowmarket, Suffolk, United Kingdom, IP14 1AB
25.10.2024 - 05.11.2024
Sound Field Folding
Hundred Years Gallery, 13 Pearson St, London, United Kingdom, E2 8JD
03.08.2024
MRes RCA 2024 Research Journeys
The Hanger Gallery, London, United Kingdom, SW11 4NL
26.07.2024 - 01.08.2024
Fragment for the Future; Movement
The Hanger Gallery, London, United Kingdom, SW11 4NL
29.04.2024 - 01.05.2024
Whispers of the Unseen: Sonic Alchemy
Iklectik, 20 Carlisle Lane, London, United Kingdom, SE1 7LG
13.12.2023
July 2025
FAD Magazine: “Behind the closed doors: Reconstructin the narrative of home in a crumbling house”
June 2025
Divide Magazine issue 12 Dec 2024
Collect Art Magazine winter issue seasonal edition
Dec 2024
Reflections of the Past, Visions of Tomorrow
Dec 2024
Artistcloseup Magazine issue 25
Dec 2024
Artistcloseup Blog individual interview
Oct 2024
Last Updated 2026.10.25
Iris Lingyu Zhang
drimyftif2017@gmail.com
Iris Lingyu Zhang (b. 1997, Beijing) is a multimedia artist and researcher working between London and Beijing. Her emotionally immersive works span digital and installation-based media, exploring feminist inquiries into the body, space, and desire. Drawing on psychology and philosophy, her practice negotiates identity, intimacy, and cultural memory through porous visual forms.
Iris holds a Master of Research from the Royal College of Art and pursuing her second Master’s degree in Fine Arts at Goldsmiths, University of London. She has exhibited internationally, with recent shows including international Biennale THE WRONG, Visions in the Nunnery 2025 at London Bow Art Gallery, Permeate in Vienna, and Instante in São Paulo. Her work has also been presented at IKLECTIK, Hundred Years Gallery, and The Handbag Factory, among others.
Iris holds a Master of Research from the Royal College of Art and pursuing her second Master’s degree in Fine Arts at Goldsmiths, University of London. She has exhibited internationally, with recent shows including international Biennale THE WRONG, Visions in the Nunnery 2025 at London Bow Art Gallery, Permeate in Vienna, and Instante in São Paulo. Her work has also been presented at IKLECTIK, Hundred Years Gallery, and The Handbag Factory, among others.
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Comet Tail
2024
Interactive Audio-Visual Installation 200*75*30cm
Moving Image 6’31”
Collaborate with Tong Niu
Archive, Graphics, Touchdesigner, Audio-Visual Effects, Immersive Experience
Through a female lens, we symbolize the Flânerie archive by adopting the archival methodologies inspired by Warburg's later years, reinterpreting the Huainanzi's Astronomical Disciplines. This reinterpretation offers a critique of the taboos and regrets experienced by women marginalized in history.
Using image manipulation techniques and latent space, we recode visuals and sounds, amplifying the fragments that lurk within these paths. The soundscape acts as a guide, fostering a resonance with the universe and aligning with the rhythm of our Flânerie as consciousness continuously advances. This work aims to provide a multidimensional insight into our identity as women, inviting the audience to explore the mysteries hidden within the comet's trajectory.
Null-Flux
2023
Interactive Audio-Visual Performance 7’00”
Video footage 3’48”
Collaborate with Tong Nui, Neo Gao
Sound Performance, Graphics, Touchdesigner, Audio-Visual Effects, Immersive Experience
By using symbolic metaphors, the story delineates the psychological process of schizophrenia of individuals in the ‘social machine’ through the lens of labour life, social relations, desires etc. The work translates literature text into cross-media interactive expression and depicts the heterotopia fable as real-time audiovisual performance.
Through real-time camera recording and program data tracking, the world is thus recognized as a noise-indexed reality, in which the images and sonic constituted corresponding relations. The work attempts to achieve a specific site where the corporal being might synchronized with space and noise flux by juxtapositioning with instrument performance.
No.0-PI De-sanctified Symphony
2023
Interactive Audio-Visual Performance 10’00”
Video Footage 1’52”
Collaborate with Tong Nui
Graphics, Touchdesigner, Audio-Visual Effects, Immersive Experience
The core of this system lies in the natural sounds of plants, which hold unique energy. Artists reflect on the latent wisdom within botany and critically reconsider human social systems. Through natural sound mapping, chemical communication color extraction, graphic manipulation, and interactive design, the artists explore and offer new perspectives for contemplating the world.
PI, through its intricate underground roots and networks, allows plants to continuously exchange information and nutrients, showcasing an eternal, symbiotic, and invisible wisdom. This intelligence is omnipresent in nature, iterating and merging, embedding itself into our spaces, transmitting and filtering information.
At every moment, the vibrations of plants feed their frequencies back into the intelligent network. Through spontaneous learning, they generate and progressively refine a system that moves toward absolute rational intelligence.
No.0-PI explores the themes of collective coexistence and the co-creation of life, advocating for equal and harmonious connections with nature while critically reflecting on authoritarianism and anthropocentric social structures.
Unknown Utopia
2023
Moving Image 1’49”
Immersive Experience, Audio-Visual Effects, Touchdesigner, AfterEffects, 3D Modeling
This process resembles the phenomenological idea that shared reality is shaped through subjective experience. Believers collectively engage in meditation and creative practices, blurring the lines between individual perception and collective spiritual experience.
The artist blurs the boundaries between reality and dreams through a purely digital space, constructing a virtual shrine for the audience. Drawing on digital ontology, the artist questions what is "real" and how digital interactions can nurture genuine spiritual experiences.
Within the context of postmodernity, Unknown Utopia reflects the coexistence of fragmented narratives and multiple interpretations of spirituality, existing within a digital framework that democratizes spiritual exploration. It challenges traditional spiritual authority, allowing for a more diverse and open-ended engagement with belief systems.
Touch Designer Audio-Visual Interactive Works (2023-2024)
© Iris Lingyu Zhang 2026