Non-Places
It existed only in relation to a residential block that was not itself.
From the note on South of Luozhuang. Paintings of Haidian, Beijing, 2024 to 2026.
Apparition
The image of something arriving, but no name for what arrived.
From the note on Visitation. Two paintings, 2026.
All works
About
Siyu Zhong is a painter. She was born in Beijing, grew up in Haidian in the northwest of the city, and moved to the United States at fourteen. She studied at the Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan, and lives and works between Beijing and California.
I paint places that are hard to name. Most of them are in Haidian, and they are not the places people mean when they say Beijing. I paint from memory, in oil, and I don’t sketch. The paintings build up slowly, some of them over several months, poured, scraped back and painted over.
- 2024Bittersweet Bliss, BA Senior Thesis Exhibition, Stamps Gallery, Ann Arbor, Michigan
- 2023Art in the Legislature, Michigan State Capitol, Lansing, Michigan. Koi, one-year installation
- 2025Private collection
- 2023William A. Lewis Watercolor Prize, Stamps School of Art & Design, University of Michigan
- 2026M.S., Human-Computer Interaction, University of Michigan
- 2025B.A., Visual Design, Stamps School of Art & Design, University of Michigan
- 2025B.S., Informatics, University of Michigan