Feels like yesterday, Mengmeng Zhang, Acrylic on Canvas, 50 x 40 cm, 2026
Mengmeng Zhang (b. 1997, Jiangsu, China) is a London-based artist graduated from MFA Painting at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL in 2025. She holds a BA from the China Academy of Art and an MA from Camberwell College of Arts.
Zhang is the winner of 2025 Almacantar Studio Award. In 2024, Zhang was shortlisted for the New Wave Art Prize at the Bloomsbury Festival and the Hari Art Prize. She presented solo exhibition, ‘Illusion’ at A Single Piece Gallery (Sydney, 2025) and ‘Out of Place’, at Bonian Space (Beijing, 2024). Zhang has participated in group exhibitions including ‘Line Shifu and Bakery Shifu’ at Small-Time Project (London, 2025), ‘Pareidolia’ at Mandy Zhang Art (London, 2025), ‘Moving Principle’ at Arusha Gallery (London, 2025), ‘Floating’ at The Bomb Factory (London, 2023), and ‘UNMUTE’ at Copeland Gallery (London, 2021), among others.
Zhang works in contemporary painting with interests in fragmentation of modern living. Her works explore the displacement between memory and the present, inner emotion and outer environments. Through intuitive colour choices and expressive mark-making, Zhang incorporates stylised characters to embody moods, actions and experiences inspired by her personal reflections on everyday moments.
Works:
Burning heart, Mengmeng Zhang, Acrylic, Ink and Pastel on Canvas, 150 x 100 cm, 2026
Feels like yesterday, Mengmeng Zhang, Acrylic on Canvas, 50 x 40 cm, 2026
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