Zhang Ran, born 1981, Tianjin, China, lives and works in Rotterdam, Netherlands, and Berlin, Germany. She was selected twice for the artist residency program at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam from 2011 to 2013. In 2008, Zhang received the Gold and Bronze Prizes from the Danfoss Art Award. In 2014, she was awarded the Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst Ontwikkelbudget and the Mondriaan Fonds Werkbijdrage Jong Talent.

In her recent works, Zhang Ran creates synthetic textures and shapes by fragmenting dense organic micrographs and visualized data of eye floaters, motor and visual proteins. Through this process, she examines the connection between biological knowledge and personal experience, tracing how crises destabilize and mutate scientific understanding, allowing knowing, obsession, fantasy, and horror to coalesce into a language system.

Recent solo exhibitions include: Eventsight, CLC Gallery Venture, Beijing (2026); Feral Possible around Karl-Marx-Strasse and Carrer Cobalt, Bärenzwinger, Berlin (2026); Dark Romance, Galeria Plan B, Berlin (2025); Jiggly Motions, FRAC Occitanie Montpellier (2022); Enantiomers and traces, Galeria Plan B, Berlin (2021); Resolution of Traits, L’ahah, Paris (2021); Recent group exhibitions include: Repulsie, Pulsie, Amsterdam (2026); By the Mango Belt & Tamarind Road, Transmediale, Berlin (2026); Third Surface, Berlin Atonal, Kraftwerk, Berlin (2025); Am Seegarten, Kirchmöser, Brandeburg (2023); Atlas of A nities: Vol. 2, Scores for Movement, HUA International, Berlin (2023); Aliens are temporary – einemutierende Erzählung, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin (2022).