“As an immigrant, I desire to communicate. Yet experience and feelings can seem unspeakable. The frustration with a language barrier makes me want to connect through paintings. We can't read the same language, but we understand the same symbol -- love.”

Ruxue Zhang was born in 1992 in Wenzhou, China. She graduated from Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing (BFA, 2015), and California College of the Arts in San Francisco (MFA, 2018). Her oil paintings explore ways of seeing and capture sublime moments in life and the universe. Her work is in the collection of Fidelity Investments and noteable private collections. She works and lives in San Francisco, California.