About Me

Wei Zhang (魏彰) (b. 1991, Sichuan, China) is a filmmaker and visual artist based in Glasgow, Scotland, and a practice-based PhD researcher at Kingston School of Art.

Grounded in agential realism, their work attends to the migrating body in flux, its hormones and cortisol, as it emerges through intra-action with environments, discourses, and languages. Shifting from their earlier engagement within post-structuralism, Zhang now resignifies transmogrification, inspired by metamorphosis, through the ghosts and monsters of Chinese folk tradition, exploring it as a material-discursive practice in artists' moving image.

Working with collage, hybrid media, and experimental sound, Zhang layers found footage, archival images, and sonic fragments into moving-image works where lived bodily experience meets the collective histories that haunt it. Their work has been shown at Glasgow International 2024, Adelaide Fringe 2025, and on the Piccadilly Lights screen at Piccadilly Circus, London, with CIRCA in 2020. Zhang was selected for the Aesthetica Art Prize Longlist 2026, nominated for Best Art Film at Aesthetica Short Film Festival 2025, and works in close collaboration with LUX Scotland.

Academic Qualifications

BA in Directing at ChongQing University (2010 – 2014) with Distinction, #1 in a cohort of 16;

MSc in Filmmaking and Media Arts at the University of Glasgow (2015 – 2016) with Merit;

Master of Fine Art in the Glasgow School of Art (2018 – 2020) with Distinction.

Publication

2026 – The Silver Tide, review by Cici Peng, LUX Scotland, Online, UK.
2024 – Wah Yen, Glasgow International 2024: Stories from the City, The Skinny, article by Shalmali Shetty, Glasgow, UK.
2023 – But I Am Pretty, exhibition review invited by artist Katherine Ka Yi Liu, Collective, the Satellites Programme, Edinburgh, UK.
2022 – A Tub and Holometabolism, online article, Posthuman Art Resident Program, Foreign Objekt Posthuman Lab, San Francisco, US.

Residency, Grants And Awards

2026 – Wah Yen, selected for the Aesthetica Art Prize Longlist, York, UK.
2025 – Wah Yen, nominated for Best Artists’ Film, Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York, UK.
2024 – Wei Zhang, selected to introduce the Queer Asia short films screening programme at SQIFF, Glasgow, UK.
2023 – Wei Zhang, selected for Hospitalfield – Interdisciplinary Residency Programme, Arbroath, UK.
2022 – Wei Zhang, selected for the Posthuman Art Resident Program, Foreign Objekt Posthuman Lab, Posthuman Art Network, The Space Gallery, San Francisco, US.
2021 – Wei Zhang, selected for the New Art School Bursary Awards, NAS, UK.
2021 – Wei Zhang, selected for the Hardship Fund for Creative Freelancers, Creative Scotland, UK.
2021 – Wei Zhang, selected for Tramway Supports Residency Programme (with grant), Tramway, Glasgow, UK.
2017 – Undercurrent, nominated for Best Short Film (Undercurrent), Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Awards; TMFF – The Monthly Film Festival; Big Fandom Film Festival, US.

Exhibition

SOLO

2026 – The Silver Tide [UK Online Premiere], One Work, LUX Scotland, Online, UK.
2019 – 2x+xy=1, The Art School, Glasgow, UK.

DUO

2021 – The Avulsed Rabbit, Intermedia Gallery, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, UK.

GROUP

2026 – Wah Yen, Aesthetica Art Prize Longlist Exhibition, York Art Gallery, York, UK.
2026 – Wah Yen, Women and Immigration Film Screening, Pili Pata, Berlin, Germany.
2026 – Wah Yen, Performing Arts & Screening, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
2026 – Wah Yen, Queering Film Screening, Hongik University, Seoul, South Korea.
2026 – Wah Yen, Shadow Queer Cinema Week, Weifang, China.
2025 – Wah Yen, Aesthetica Short Film Festival (ASFF), York, UK.
2025 – Wah Yen, Beijing Queer Film Festival: Love Queer Cinema Week, Beijing, China.
2025 – Wah Yen, Group Exhibition: Les premières gouttes du ciel (滴星), Luoyang, China.
2025 – Wah Yen, Glasgow 850 Exhibition, Project Ability, Glasgow, UK.
2025 – Wah Yen & In the Penumbra, the Strange Wave, Queer East, Scottish Queer International Film Festival, London, UK.
2025 – Wah Yen, Adelaide Fringe, Insights Platforms, Online, Australia.
2024 – Wah Yen, Glasgow International 2024, 5 Florence Street, Glasgow, UK.
2023 – The Avulsed Rabbit, ‘Time, Again: Present’, Aya Films & Curate-It, Glasgow Film Theatre, Glasgow, UK.
2023 – The Pool Full of Wine, Annual Group Show, Old Contemporaries, Dundee, UK.
2023 – Kaleidoscope, Queer East Festival & BLON Animation and Game Festival, Klaipeda, Lithuania.
2022 – In the Penumbra, the Strange Wave, Out of Sight Out of Mind, Edinburgh, UK.
2022 – The Avulsed Rabbit, ESEA Heritage Month, The Bluecoat, Liverpool, UK.
2022 – In the Penumbra, the Strange Wave, Annuale, EMBASSY Gallery, Edinburgh, UK.
2022 – In the Penumbra, the Strange Wave & Another Shape, Add & Minus, ‘Happy Tide Will Flood Again’, 5 Florence Street, Glasgow, UK.
2022 – The Avulsed Rabbit, 12th Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Hawick, UK.
2022 – The Avulsed Rabbit, Toronto Queer Film Festival, Online, Canada.
2021 – Father, Dad, Daddy, Liminal Pavilion, Bangkok Biennial 2020, Bangkok, Thailand.
2020 – 2x+xy=1 & Kaleidoscope, Queer Animations Screening, Toronto Queer Film Festival, Online, Canada.
2020 – Father, Dad, Daddy, Liminal Pavilion, An Excess of White – Sunday Studios, Montreal, Canada.
2020 – Father, Dad, Daddy, CIRCA ‘Class of 2020’, Piccadilly Lights in Piccadilly Circus, London, UK.
2020 – Father, Dad, Daddy, GRADCURATE – Summer Exhibition, Online, UK.
2020 – Kaleidoscope, Royal Scottish Academy, SSA/VSA: Cutlog, Edinburgh, UK.
2019 – 2x+xy=1, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Scottish Queer International Film Festival, Glasgow, UK.