Annie Yuan Zhuang is a multidisciplinary artist living in New York City. Zhuang’s practice, spanning site-specific intervention, installation, book arts, and soundscape, originates from observations of contemporary life. Born and raised in Beijing, China, and later moved to New York, Zhuang continues to examine her experiences growing up between cities and cultures. She treats each city as a living organism with unique physiology. Working with various materials including metal, epoxy resin, natural and organic matters such as soil and spices, Zhuang’s practice experiments with the life cycles of matter in its material and immaterial forms. In their tangible and intangible forms such as sound, dust, residues, food scraps, and excess supplement tablets, traces of the city are collected in Zhuang’s work. Her works are a series of investigations on everyday living experiences in an urban environment. She transforms them into visual, audio, tactile, and fragrant explorations. By engaging with found and foraged materials in urban living spaces, she amplifies the neglected nuances in contemporary life, such as cultural, social, and power dynamics.



“O, it is dim and dark; and yet within is essence.” ——Tao Te Ching.




Zhuang holds a joint degree in Integrated Design and Philosophy from The New School, and studied Art, Media, and Technology at Parsons Paris. Her work has been shown in New York, Venice, Paris, Milan, Seattle, and Beijing, with recent exhibitions at New York City College of Technology (2024), A plus A Gallery (2024, Venice), the Oculus at the World Trade Center (2023, New York), and PS122 Gallery (2023, New York).



Annie also makes risograph prints of her surroundings and eats-inspired items for 3PLUMS DELI.



















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