Anna Zhang

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Anna Zhang

(she/her)

b. 2001, New York, USA

Anna Zhang is an artist whose work focuses on imaging and reimagining our relationships with technology. Her interests lay in new media, speculative fiction, games, creative tools, and digital accessibility.

Her projects include creating a fictional startup that explores the invisible labor underpinning technology, designing a mobile game that encourages positive actions and rewards kindness, and improving accessibility for America's open-source code platform.

Anna's work has been featured in various locations online (Royal Photographic Journal, Real Life, New Media Caucus, Buzzfeed, Forbes) and offline (National Museum of American History, CICA). She is a recipient of the Judson-Morrissey Excellence in New Media Award and was honored on the Forbes 30 Under 30 List. She also takes photographs and has been published in magazines like Glamour and Porter.

She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Computing and the Arts from Yale University.

  • Brightlove
    Part of the Girlhood (It's Complicated) exhibition, 2021-2023
    National Museum of American History
    Washington, D.C., United States
  • Boao Young Leader
    Award, 2022
  • “An Image, Reimagined”
    Boao Youth Forum
    Hainan Province, China (virtual)
    Talk, 2022
  • “Anna Zhang: meet the Forbes 30 Under 30 artist”
    The Royal Photographic Journal
    Interview, 2022
  • Sincerely, and Refract
    Part of the Judson-Morrissey Excellence in New Media Award exhibition, 2022
    New Media Caucus, online
  • Judson-Morrissey Excellence in New Media Award, 2022
  • Refract
    Part of the Color 2022 exhibition
    Czong Institute for Contemporary Art
    Gyeonggi-do, Korea
  • Photo Flux group exhibition
    The Getty Center
    Los Angeles, California, United States
  • Verge: Art and Activism
    Georgetown University (virtual)
    Keynote talk, 2021
  • Forbes 30 Under 30 (Art & Style, Youngest), 2021
  • “Meet The Teens Who Are Changing The Game”
    BuzzFeed
    Press, 2019
  • Google Play's Change the Game Design Challenge Grand Prize Winner, 2019
  • FOLIO Rising Star Award, 2018
  • Crain's New York Business 20 Under 20, 2017