CV

Education

Master of Fine Art
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

Positions

Bow Art Nunnery Gallery
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

Skills

Visual and Sonic Storytelling
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

Exhibitions

SPANNING DELTA III
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

Press

Ourculture Art&Photography: “In the syntax of pauses: Sensing the green grammar”
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
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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.

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Exhibitions

SPANNING DELTA III

An d. Mole 9, 10317 Berlin, Germany

04.09.2026 - 27.09.2026

Work in the show: The Tent

Website

PAKD Gallery Berlin shares its third edition of their annual open call exhibition, Spanning Delta III. Artists selected from a peer reviewed body of applications from across the globe will exhibit a collection of works examining a broad spectrum of themes, as well as join PAKD's official artist roster. In the past, the artwork selection underscored our relationship to memories, experiences of digital worlds and the effect this has on our understanding of relational connection, behavioral changes and adaptation, migration, and how our bodies are “managed” by the boundaries we create, environmentally activated and “geoartistic experiments that considers resource extraction across time art,” tactile exploration, and life’s final moments.

The word in the exhibition title “Delta” invokes the branching flow of rivers, where currents disperse and converge, carrying sediments of change. In this spirit, Spanning Delta III is a confluence of perspectives, a gathering of voices that reminds us of the transformative power of art to span distances, bridge boundaries, and carve new paths of relation.

A Room for Unbecoming Women

The Handbag Factory, 3 Loughborough Street, London, United Kingdom, SE11 5TB

30.07.2026 - 03.08.2026

Work in the show: No.219

Website

A Room for Unbecoming Women is a group exhibition that creates an imagined intimate space for exploring diverse experiences of femininity, identity, and selfhood. Bringing together works by women and non-binary artists, the exhibition invites reflection on forms of becoming that exist beyond conventional expectations of femininity.

Through painting, objects, sculpture, installation, and interdisciplinary practices, the gallery is reimagined as a personal and shared space that is shaped by memory, everyday experiences, material encounters, and individual narratives. Visitors are invited into this room as guests: to listen, to feel, and to engage with the works through emotional, sensory, and embodied experiences.

TABOO

Bradley House, 26 ST Albans LN, London, United Kingdom, NW11 7QE

23.07.2026 - 13.08.2026

Work in the show: The Body in Blue

Website

Taboo is a contemporary art exhibition that explores the invisible boundaries society places around censored narratives. It examines taboo as a social construct — exposing the relationship between repression and control, shame and identity, secrecy and power.

Interested in questioning how taboos are formed, who defines them, and why certain experiences are silenced across cultures and generations, a collective of artists is sharing their stories and concepts of cultural and familial taboos. Some of them include shame surrounding sexuality, mental health, grief, and social status, passed through generations, the worshiping or regulation of the body, political and power affairs, circulating around the judgement on desire, addiction, obsession, and the tension between freedom and moral control.

All forbidden, censored, hidden, and feared is considered toboo. But taboo also referes to a subject of minimal knowledge, restricted access, sacred, or allowed to few.

The exhibition will encourage open dialogue around topics often considered uncomfortable or controversial. Stepping from silence into visibility and from discomfort into reflection, it will challenge the audiences to confront the uncomfortable spaces between morality and humanity. And will transform taboo from a barrier into a conversation — revealing that what society suppresses often exposes its deepest truths.

THE WRONG International Biennale Transient Info

Virtual Worldwide

01.11.2025 - 31.03.2026

Work in the show: The Tent

Website

Transient Info is a virtual exhibition that reflects on the post-digital condition, shaped by the incessant, fragmented and volatile flow of information. Its ephemeral nature—generated, multiplied and dissolved within seconds—transforms not only social experience but also the aesthetics of digital art.

In this landscape of informational excess, where data is no longer an exception but an environment, digital artefacts coexist with hybrid materialities, unstable memories and identities in constant reconfiguration. The exhibition brings together works that explore this territory of transience, challenging notions of archive, authorship, permanence and meaning.

Visions in the Nunnery 2025

Bow Road & Nunnery Gallery, 181-183 Bow Road, London, United Kingdom, E3 2SJ

04.10.2025 - 09.11.2025

Work in the show: A Punch on Tofu

Website

Rosie Gibben’s Programme 1 will feature new work by Gibbens alongside those by 38 other artists. Drawing on her interest in the absurd, the Gallery will be a smorgasbord of recorded performing bodies. Bodies pushing against their limits, becoming technologically augmented, morphing into the more-than-human or embracing the bizarre.

Witness bodies explore bizarre appendages (Blue Phoenix), gorge on sugary treats (Julieta Tetelbaum), express the anxieties of life in a digital world (Emily Sarten) and deploy the pedestrian in a quiet refusal to be overlooked (Rozina Pátkai).

The Nave will be transformed into a Frankenstein-style lair of animatronic corporeal sculptures and videos. Encounter a vibrating face (Ivy Vo) and a choker of tongues (Alicia Radage) alongside films exploring themes of loneliness, desire, and intimacy in the digital age (Adam Cole), and the body as a site of resistance to productivity and perfectionism (Annie Edwards) to name just a few of the 38 works on display.

Selected from an international open call, Visions brings together artworks from across the globe, giving you a unique chance to discover different voices, ideas and perspectives through film and performance. 

The Green Grammar

art'otel London Hoxton, 1-3 Rivington Street, London, United Kingdom, EC2A 3DT

27.06.2025 - 29.06.2025

Work in the show: A Punch on Tofu

Website

The screening of The Green Grammar Exhibition in Art’otel Gallery Hoxton unfolds like a quiet choreography of everyday materials, bodies, and ecological sensibilities. Tucked away from the white walls of the gallery, it takes shelter in a dim, intimate room in Art’otel gallery Hoxton, produced, supported and co-curated by host Gallery, ArtSect.The exhibition runs from June 27 to June 29 at art’otel, Hoxton.Interweaving themes of food, nature, and the philosophy of everyday mundane, these video artworks explore how meaning is constructed through soft gestures, tactile matter, and the unspoken logic of personal and collective memory. Just as grammar shapes how we communicate, these works uncover the quiet systems of meaning that emerge through emotion, memory, and the rhythms of daily life.

ArtSect Gallery is a nomadic entity that builds, produces, and curates both physical and digital exhibitions across London, Athens, and the Middle East. Their focus lies in subtle geopolitics, psychology, LGBTQ+ voices, and emerging immersive and sensory practices. Incubating new artists and fostering cross-border communication between regions presents both logistical and social challenges—challenges that ArtSect is actively exploring and will continue to engage with in the years to come.

Pieces of Me

Artworks East Gallery, 32-34 Osier Way, London, United Kingdom, E10 5SB

06.06.2025 - 04.07.2025

Work in the show: No.219

Website

Curated by artist Nadia Thompson, The Pieces of Me explores the essence of humanity’s artistic identity through film, sculpture and art. Featuring new and established artists from around the globe, Nadia’s inaugural show is set to empower and embolden artists from all walks of life as they share the pivotal works that have shaped their practice.

Behind the Closed Doors

Safehouse, 137 Copeland Road, London, United Kingdom, SE15 3SN

31.05.2025 - 03.06.2025

Work in the show: No.219

Website

Once the door is closed, the world behind it becomes invisible to outsiders.
Inside, is it a place of warmth and shelter, or a silent battlefield? The home may appear detached from the public sphere, yet it mirrors the power structures of society—where love and control, protection and oppression intertwine.

This exhibition focuses on the space of the “home” and the dynamics of power within it, seeking to reveal the hidden stories and emotional narratives concealed behind closed doors, challenging the singular definition of what home means.
Here, the home is not only a refuge, but also a site of confinement and suppression, as well as a witness to resilience and resistance. Familial relationships drift between affection and conflict, while unspoken stories accumulate in silence, becoming buried histories.

Permeate

West/Alte WU, Augasse 2-6, 1090 Vienna, Austria

29.03.2025 - 03.04.2025

Work in the show: A Punch on Tofu

Website

This is a compilation of films from Artists and Filmmakers from around the globe, who are interested in Ultra Processed Food. Questioning how we eat, consume and live. This compilation of films are inspired by Chris Van Tulleken’s Number 1 Sunday Times bestseller book “Ultra Processed People” (Cornerstone press).

This set of films explore how the food we eat is directly related to the capitalist cycle of labour and consumption. Sianne Ngai describes these emotions as indicators of social conditions of powerlessness and frustration, stemming from the injustices and inequalities of late capitalist life. These “unprestigious negative affects” are often associated with situations in which agency is blocked or suspended. By engaging with these themes, we can recognise the passive and ambivalent states that shape our emotional experiences and question the connections between aesthetics and politics.

Secret Salon: Electric Ladyland

Caveside Cl, Old Hill, Chislehurst, Kent, United Kingdom, BR7 5NL

14.12.2024

Work in the show: A Punch on Tofu

Website

The Secret Salon presents 'Electric Ladyland' on 14th December 2024 A feminist-focused physical Art exhibition hosted by Andree Adley CSM in a network of iconic caves in South London (15 mins from London Bridge). We will be celebrating the anniversary of the legendary Jimi Hendrix's live performance at the caves in December 1967. This open call is for UK and International DIGITAL works.

The Secret Salon presents 'ELECTRIC LADYLAND' on 14th December 2024, A feminist-focused physical Art exhibition in a network of iconic caves in South London (15 mins from London Bridge)

Following a string of very successful art exhibitions this year, we will be celebrating the anniversary of the legendary Jimi Hendrix's performance at the caves in December 1967.

Instante

Echos Studio, Rua Pelotas, 400 - Vila Mariana, Sao Paulo, Brazil

07.12.2024 - 20.12.2024

Work in the show: The Body in Blue

Website

In the bustling metropolis of Sao Paulo, finding a moment to pause and savour the present can be challenging.

The international art exhibition "Instante," showcasing the creative works of 27 artists from 18 diverse nations, offers a unique invitation to do just that.

It encourages viewers to stop and appreciate a variety of art forms and expressions. Each piece serves as a window into the artist's inner world, capturing fleeting moments of inspiration and subtle cultural nuances.

Dive into "Instante" and let the world stand still, if only for a moment.

The Dark Side

Boomer Gallery, 150 Tooley Street, London, United Kingdom, SE1 2TU

08.11.2024 - 13.11.2024

Work in the show: No.219

Website

Does a latent shadow reside in the heart of artistic creation and within the souls of the artists themselves?

If any figure could parallel the introspective solitude of a monk, it is the visual artist. Though it may stir debate, let us reflect. Consider the profound solitude, the palpable stillness of the studio where silent hours merge into days, as the artist labors and broods over their craft, fervently hoping for the world to awaken to the brilliance of their ideas, to feel the pulse of their passion embedded in their work.

In this sacred space, sanity often hangs by a delicate thread. In that dim studio corner, the artist’s once cherished chair becomes a silent sentinel, marking the site of internal battles. Here, in the quiet chaos reminiscent of Van Gogh’s own torments, the artist faces the relentless inquisition of their worth, questioning their identity with every fleeting moment: Is my art a true reflection of my essence?

The exhibition aims to bridge the gap between the artist’s secluded atelier and the broader world, illuminating the enigmatic beauty that thrives in the shadows.

MYSTICAL

Fox Yard Studio, 6 Old Fox Yard, Stowmarket, Suffolk, United Kingdom, IP14 1AB

25.10.2024 - 05.11.2024

Work in the show: Unknown Utopia

Website

The Mystical exists in the natural order of the world. It invites us to contemplate the depths of our consciousness, the blending of the unusual and supernatural, and the inexplicable universe.Our MYSTICAL art exhibition will feature artists who push the boundaries of Contemporary art with works from different genres and styles. Showcasing various paintings, drawings, sculptures, photographic and digital works.

Sound Field Folding

Hundred Years Gallery, 13 Pearson St, London, United Kingdom, E2 8JD

03.08.2024

Work in the show: Null-Flux

Website

Join us for an experimental sound & art evening where four groups of London-based sound & visual artists will present a series of sound experiments including AI-generated soundscape, Live modular, Audio-visual live, and Electronic improvisation.

Sound Field Folding is a series of sound events flowing in different spaces and fields, aiming to let various sounds oscillate, spread, collide, and fold.

MRes RCA 2024 Research Journeys

The Hanger Gallery, London, United Kingdom, SW11 4NL

26.07.2024 - 01.08.2024

Work in the show: The Tent

Website

The MRes RCA is interdisciplinary: students from the fields of architecture, communication, design, fine art and the experimental humanities come together in a single programme to think about their practice as transforming, and as being transformed by, work in other disciplines. Students come to us to pursue a project of their choosing. Assured in their practices as artists, for example (or as writers, curators, architects, product designers, visual communicators – and the list goes on), students come to develop their knowledge on a topic that feels vital to them, which they filter through their practice. They come to us as practitioners. Drawing on methods from across disciplines, we teach them how to become researchers, too.

Fragment for the Future; Movement

The Hanger Gallery, London, United Kingdom, SW11 4NL

29.04.2024 - 01.05.2024

Work in the show: The Body in Blue

Website

Fragments for the Future includes works by MRes students across the discipline specialisms of Architecture, Communication, Design, Fine Art, and Experimental Humanities. This two-part exhibition is divided by a structure of stillness and movement, with the first installation being one of objects displayed primarily on the floor and leant against walls and the second installation focusing on time-based works including moving image and live works. Each show creates cascades of folds or sequences of affects; subjects and objects tangled together.

Whispers of the Unseen: Sonic Alchemy

Iklectik, 20 Carlisle Lane, London, United Kingdom, SE1 7LG

13.12.2023

Work in the show: No.0-PI De-sanctified Symphony

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Curated and performed by students from the Royal College of Art Sound Elective these events are an odyssey through and beyond the audible. The shows will include DIY instruments, 3D spatialisation, AI-generated AV work, electroacoustic sea shanties and a sonic meal. Each project is an exploration of the unseen, an invitation to journey through sound as a form of experiential resonance. Sonic Alchemy is a celebration of sound's potential as a connective and disruptive medium.