News/Upcoming (last updated 28 jan 2026)
- I am working on a new book, with Berggruen Press.
- Teaching: I have joined the Royal College of Art as Tutor (Research) in Contemporary Art Practice
- Part one, 2026: I am leading a working group for Organismo @ TBA21 Academy, on climate resilience and intervention in the Western Mediterranean, in collaboration with BC3 and EEAS.
- I am an Advisor for the 2026 Hyundai Artlab Writing Fellowship, open call soon!
Exhibitions
- Group Show: Metamers showing at Moving on Asia, Domoheon Busan.
- Biennial: "The Tourist" at the 9th Asian Art Biennial
- Group Show: 小节线内的抽屉，Power Station of Art (2024)
- Solo: METAMERS, EPFL Pavilions (2024)
- Film: The Tourist, Art Gallery of York University
- Public Artwork: Ocean Briefings, Sea Art Festival, Busan (2023)
- Opera: Dead Cat Bounce, with Waste Paper Opera (2022), touring in 2024 to Eastside Projects, Nottingham Contemporary, and Arts Catalyst.
- Exhibition: Cycle 25, Arts Catalyst/Bloc Projects (2021).
2025 Writing
Selected Writing
2025 Activity
- September: "Multipolar Technoculture" talk at Het Nieuwe Instituut (online)
- September: Co-curated "The Weather In-Between: Monsoons, Markets and Other Derivative Atmospheres" at Para Site, Hong Kong, with Billy Tang and Stefan Luk, also keynote lecture.
- October: talks in Goldsmiths MFA ("Planetarity") and Asymmetry ("Psychedelic Reason") lecture series.
- August:Friday Lates panel at V&A x Eastern Margins with Clara and Lorenzo
- April-July: La Becque <3
- April: Global Art Forum talk with Halle Frost and a very good crew.
- April: Crit Club at Alserkal Avenue with Adelita Husni-Bey (thx cem and stephanie)
- May: writing a report on art & tech in China for British Council
- April: Exhibition with Madde Andersson at Zentrum für Kreativ Wirtschaft, Kassel
- April: MoMA R&D Salon on scams(fav topic)
- March: "AIs, Egregores and the UX of personhood" at NYU Shanghai IMA
- March: "Technology and Belief" artist talk at China Academy of Art
- January: Contemporary Art Lecture Series at Ruskin College of Art, Oxford
- August: PAF University
- July: Dead Cat Bounce on tour to Nottingham Contemporary, book here!
- July: Senior Researcher @ Antikythera Cognitive Infrastructures Studio
- June 9: Talk for Weird Economies Summer School, with Bassam El Baroni and Steven Klein
- May 8: Online talk on "Interspecies Money" at Design Academy Eindhoven.
- April: Dead Cat Bounce on tour to Eastside Projects
- April: Publication launch: Future Art Ecosystems IV: Art & Public AI, read here.
- April: Publication launch: a text in "Interspecies Future: A Primer" published by Light Art Space.
- Opening: METAMERS at EPFL Pavilions until March 17th
- Feb 26: Artist talk at ICA London with Conditions programme
- Feb 24th: Catastrophe Time! Book launch at e-flux, NYC
- "Searching for the Revolutionary Ali Sultan Issa" for Frieze #243.
- Future Art Ecosystems 4: Art x Public AI, co-author (Serpentine, 2024)
- Profile on Max Planck ICARUS project for Interspecies, LAS.
- "Breaking up with globalization at the Taipei Biennial" for Art Basel
- "Shanghai Ecosystem Report" for Art Basel
- Into the Lumpy World", LEAP, Summer 2023 issue.
- Catalogue essay, Chando Ao (upcoming).
- "Unravelling the World in the Polycrisis Era" for Frieze #235.
- Future Art Ecosystems 3: Art x Decentralised Tech, co-author with Victoria Ivanova (Serpentine, 2022)
- "The Internet of Egregores" for Singapore Biennial, on the invitation of Aarti Sunder (upcoming)
- An introduction for Michael Ho's Jerwood FVU Commission, Echoes from the Void
- "Repressed Returns" in Incomputable Earth - Digital Technologies and the Anthropocene (Bloomsbury, upcoming)
- Trojan Horses" in ART PAPERS Spring 2022
- "Never the Same Ocean", Schloss Solitude "Mutations" Journal, in correspondence with Ittah Yoda.
- "Jenna Sutela: Sonic Metabolisms (interview)" in Sonic Continuum (Nottingham Contemporary, upcoming)
- "Anicka Yi: ‘I’m Very, Very Squeamish With Culture'" (interview) in ArtReview, October 2021
- "Propositions" Harun Farocki Institute & Journal for Visual Culture
- “Sinofuturism and its Uses”, VERGE Journal of Global Asias
- "Ponzi Scheme", Weird Economies
- "World on FIRE", Gaia Art Foundation
- 2022-23 R&D fellow @ Rockbund Art Museum
- October 6: Opening roundtable for ENTER THE HYPERSCIENTIFIC residency at EPFL in Switzerland. Come hear me, Rosa Menkman, Sarah Oppenheimer and curator Giulia Bini talk about upcoming projects in Lausanne.
- NEW WORK: Premiere of THE TOURIST with Art Gallery at York University in Toronto and online!
- Busan Sea Art Festival, opening Oct 15
- October 6: Opening of AlienVILLAGE with Sahjan Kooner at Eastside Projects, collaborations with myself, Sophie Chapman and Manjit Kooner
- Commission Launch: The Tourist @ AGYU Toronto
- Workshop: Rupert AEP, Vilnius
- September Book Launches: Rupert & CAC, Vilnius with Tautvydas Urbelis; After 8, Paris with Yuri Pattison & Benjamin Thorel; San Serriffe, Amsterdam with Metahaven & Merve Bedir
- Book Launch: Catastrophe Time! @ GOLDSMITHS JUNE 11
- July:
Tickets for Dead Cat Bounce at Somerset House for ONE NIGHT ONLY on July 14 are on sale now! Tickets are sold out!
- May: Presented an installation version of DCB at Medialab Matadero as part of OpenLAB.
- 06-21 April: I will be on a residency at Medialab Matadero, and preparing for a performance at Medialab's new festival, Open Lab. Lmk if you are in Madrid!
- April: We (me & Waste Paper Opera) have just wrapped up a first week of rehearsals for Dead Cat Bounce at London Performance Studios.
- March: Talk and project review with students of (Meteora) in the Hovestadt Chair at ETHZ
- Kings x Somerset House: Countermapping the Hostile Environment w/ Lu Canzutti (KCL/SecurityFlows) & Migrants Organise
- Teaching: Cybernetics and China with Mi You, The New Centre, session one here.
- 2022-23: lecturer @ Goldsmiths MFA, Fine Art, Critical Studies
- Group Exhibition: Katabasis, or Cartographer in the Underworld @ totalab Shanghai, curated by Julian Junyuan Feng, April 2023
- Talk: Art & Economy @ documenta Institute, May 2023
- Talk: The Greater Fool Theory @ chelsea college of art, May 2023
- Teaching: Casco Institute, COOP @ Dutch Art Institute
- Talk: Earth day in-conversation with Sougwen Chung and Asad Raza for Gaia Art Foundation and Ignota Press
- workshop @ Masters Institute of Visual Art
- Talk: Sync or Swim @ Goldsmiths MFA Fine Art & Curating
- Publication Launch: Future Art Ecosystems 3: Art x Decentralised Tech. FAE3 was co-authored by Gary Zhexi Zhang and Victoria Ivanova, and produced by Eva Jaeger and Serpentine R&D Platform. Launch event here.
- A contribution to Symposium: “Cohesion was meant to hold. But reality started to slide.” Diann Bauer — An Appreciation
- Group exhibition: Liquid Ground @ UCCA Dune
- Teaching: "Catastrophe Time!" workshop series at Goldsmiths MFA
- Screening: Dead Cat Bounce exhibited on As We Leave The Window Open as part of Liste Art Fair until October 13.
- Talk/Curation: Where is the Planetary @ HKW, "How Can Habitability Be Measured"?
- Talk: Presentation @ Oslo Architecture Trienniale as part of The Ledger of the Sun, organised by Jamie Allen
- Talk: Conversation with Jeffrey Shaw as part of Para Site's Art and Technology talk series
- Premiere: Dead Cat Bounce w/ Waste Paper Opera @ Somerset House
- Talk: Financial Worlding with Caroline Woolard as part of Strategies for Re-worlding at Trust, Berlin
- Talk: Industrial Food Textures and workshop w/ Agnes Cameron @ Schloss Solitude
- Teaching: Visiting Tutor and "Scam Magic" workshops at Goldsmith's MFA
- Podcast: "What is Financial Astrology?" with Alannah Chance @ Somerset House Studios
- Solo exhibition: Cycle 25 @ Arts Catalyst & Bloc Projects
- Digital Artwork: The First 10,000 Years w/ Agnes Cameron @ Arts Catalyst
- Group exhibition: The Principle of Hope @ Inside Out Art Museum
- Group exhibition: Liquid Ground @ Para Site
- Group Exhibition: Rehearsing the Future @ Alien Art Center
- Group Exhibition: Death Ray on Coral Island @ Power Station of Art
- Online screening: Parasite (物流) @ Douglas Hyde Gallery
- Talk: White Papers on Dissent @ Van Abbemuseum
- Group Exhibition: Further Experiments in Art & Technology @ NEW INC & Nokia Bell Labs (as Foreign Objects w/ Eliza Collin)
Collaborations/Connections
- Co-founder/fry cook of Foreign Objects (dormant)
- Resident at Somerset House Studios with support from Kyrin Chen
- Distant but committed relationships w/ Waste Paper Opera, Trust, Sakiya, O.W.L., Weird Economies, Serpentine Arts Technologies, Other Internet, AICA
- Ex: Lecturer @ Goldsmiths MFA, PhD ext. examiner @ RCA, resident @NEW INC, p/t lecturer @ Parsons, Fellow @ Berggruen Institute, Delfina Foundation, Wysing, MIT ACT
Bio
- Gary Zhexi Zhang's work explores systemic connections between cosmology, technology and economy. He operates individually, in collaboration and within organisational frameworks. He recently edited a book of fictions, essays and interviews about finance and time, Catastrophe Time! (Strange Attractor Press, 2023). Dead Cat Bounce, the opera he co-created with Waste Paper Opera, premiered at Somerset House in 2022 and toured in 2024. Through film, writing and technological practices, his work is concerned with the production and mediation of the historical sensorium, particularly through forms of arbitrage across time, cultural and technical systems.
He currently holds the position of Tutor (Research) at the Royal College of Art, London, having previously held positions at Goldsmith's, Chelsea and Parsons. In 2026, he leads part of the Organismo programme at TBA21-Academy researching climate politics, in collaboration with Basque Centre for Climate Change and the European External Action Service, and also serves as an Advisor for the Hyundai Artlab Editorial Fellowship.
Recent solo exhibitions and commissions include Metamers at EPFL Pavilions, Lausanne; the Asian Art Biennial, Taichung; Sea Art Festival, Busan; Art Gallery of York University, Toronto. He is works has be shown in group exhibitions at Domoheon Busan; Zentrum für Kreativ Wirtschaft, Kassel; Power Station of Art, Shanghai; Powerhouse Parramatta, Sydney (upcoming); Somerset House, London (upcoming). His work has been supported by residencies and fellowships at La Becque, Rockbund Art Museum, EPFL, Sakiya, Delfina Foundation and Amant (upcoming). His artciles have been published for Frieze, ArtReview, Verge Journal of Global Asias, Journal of Cultural Economy, MIT Journal of Design and Science, e-flux, Noema; catalogue essays for Jenna Sutela, Auckland Gallery of Art, Steve Bishop, Anicka Yi and the New Museum; and books including Against Reduction (MIT Press, 2021), Incomputable Earth (Bloomsbury, 2026), Platforms: Around, In Between and Through (Singapore Biennale, 2023); Future Art Ecosystems III & IV (co-author; Serpentine, 2022 & 2024). In 2025 he led a report on art and technology in China for the British Council. He is currently writing a book about multipolar technocultures.
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