Ruiqi Zhang was born in Liaoyang, Liaoning province, China, and is currently based in Columbia, MO. He is a multimedia artist who works with moving images, game engine, and video installations to explore the complexities of the internet culture and the computing as an alternative narrative container. He earned an MFA in Kinetic Imaging from Virginia Commonwealth University School of Arts and a BFA in Visual Communication Design from Luxun Academy of Fine Arts. He is an assistant professor at the University of Missouri.
His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues such as Times Art Museum (Chengdu, China), Imaginary Z (Hangzhou, China), Stove Works (Chattanooga, US), CICA Museum (Gimpo-si, Korea), The Anderson (Richmond, US), Towson University (Baltimore, US), Cardinal Space (Baltimore, US), and Thatalright Art Space (Taipei, Taiwan), and others.
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His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues such as Times Art Museum (Chengdu, China), Imaginary Z (Hangzhou, China), Stove Works (Chattanooga, US), CICA Museum (Gimpo-si, Korea), The Anderson (Richmond, US), Towson University (Baltimore, US), Cardinal Space (Baltimore, US), and Thatalright Art Space (Taipei, Taiwan), and others.
