Dan Zhu

Dan Zhu is a Chinese artist who currently resides and works between The Hague, Netherlands and Shenyang, China. She was born in 1985 and is known for her refined style of creating magical worlds in her paintings, drawings, and murals.

Zhu often juxtaposes natural objects with familiar figures, creating unusual scenes and happenings that are in harmony with energies on site. Her works are known for their dreamlike quality and use of metaphors to express her personal development as an artist. For example, her series "A Trip to an Image" features a train window as a metaphor for the path she must follow in her development.

Zhu has had several solo and group exhibitions in prestigious galleries and institutions, including the Tabula Rasa Gallery in London and the Kunstinstituut Melly in Rotterdam. Her works have been collected by public institutions and private collections, including the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, the Schunck Museum, and the C.o.C.A Foundation.

Zhu has received several awards, including the C.o.C.A. Award and the Dutch Royal Modern Painting Prize in 2020. She holds a Bachelor of Communication Theory from Shenzhen University, a Master of Design from Communication University of China, and has studied at the Kunst and Design University in Hessen, Germany and the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, Netherlands.