WEI ZHANG
Wei Zhang is a filmmaker and visual artist with over a decade of experience, dedicated to exploring cross-cultural narratives through the moving image.
About Me
Wei Zhang (b. 1991, China) is a filmmaker and visual artist based in Glasgow, Scotland. As a PhD student at Kingston School of Art, Zhang engages in practice-based research delving into the dynamics of migration, gender, bodily transformation, and the limitations of language in artists’ moving image. Influenced by Oriental monster culture, posthumanism, gender theories, and post-colonialism, their work reflects a deep connection to Chinese cultural heritage. Utilising collage techniques, hybrid media, and experimental soundscapes, Zhang creates multi-layered narratives that bridge personal and collective histories. Their work has been showcased at exhibitions such as Glasgow International 2024, Adelaide Fringe 2025, and Bangkok Biennial 2020.
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.
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