Nicole Zhang
Biography
Nicole Zhang’s practice centres on genre painting and its potential to respond to the complexities of everyday life — to document encounters between the mundane and the sacred. Zhang’s work engages with and reinterprets the pictorial vernacular of modern and contemporary figurative painting. Through compositional strategies, patterning, and the use of recurring symbols and motifs, her paintings acknowledge the duality of quotidian tasks as at once prosaic and spiritual. This tension gives her work a quiet reverence for the rhythms of daily existence, where gesture and ritual converge in the intimate theatre of domestic life.
Works
Exhibitions
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Lunar Harmony
with Gallery Lane Cove 29 Jan - 21 Feb 2026Opening Event: Wednesday 4th Feb Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Location: Gallery Lane Cove, Upper Level, 164 Longueville Rd, Lane Cove NSW 2066 CBD Gallery & Gallery Lane Cove...Read more -
Sydney Contemporary 2025
4 - 7 Sep 2025In 2025, CBD Gallery returned to Sydney Contemporary to expand its presence across two dedicated spaces at the fair: the Main Booth J08 and the Paper Booth B04, each offering...Read more -
Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
22 Aug - 28 Sep 2024Nicole Zhang's new suite of paintings consider the everyday as a site of formation; the devotional soil on which we are shaped. Within her crowded, yet intimate tableaux, tragicomic figures...Read more
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