CalArts Post Grad Show Y25

Information + Opening
Curatorial Statement - Nora Khan
Publication

1. Adriana DiNapoli
2. A'JaeCea Carlie x Luisa Pinzón
   
3. Alexandra Pasquale
4. Anatola Araba
5. Catherine Wang
6. Chinning Liu
7. Dar San Agustin
8. Erika Keck
9. Hengyu Wang
10. Ione Wang
11. Jade Smrz
12. Jake Thornton
    
13. Zengjie Chai
    
14. Jayson Mittman
    
15. Jeffrey Martín
    
16. Kiko Thomas
    
17. Masha Sheinina
    
18. Mei Gong
    
19. Meixi Liu
    
20. Michele Lorusso
    
21. Pedro Alejandro Verdin 
    
22. Raymond Ren
    
23. Rica Kagawa
    
24. Rocky Hayden
    
25. Sining Zhu
    
26. Siqi Fan
    
27. Siyona Ravi
    
28. Smonica Lin
    
29. Sophia Le Fraga
    
30. Taylor Thomas
    
31. Ti Lee
    
32. Yanying Zhu
    
33. Yulya Valuy x Dasha Avdeeva
    
34. Yuqiao Zhang
    

Yanying Zhu(Photo/Media MFA 25) 
IG: @karz.12

Impression, 2024 – 2025

Yanying Zhu’s Impression examines how institutional labeling crosses from object to body. Two legs bear marks of institutional processing — registration numbers that catalog and pressure marks that document. Law leaves legible traces  on skin, processed for bureaucratic scanning. Touch — whether tender or aggressive, caring or clinical — leaves pressure marks. The work draws from Zhu’s own experiences, using photography to examine how migration subjects one to multiple systems of documentation and control. By keeping grain, scratches, and gaps visible in the image, Zhu refuses the seamless clarity typical of official documentation, instead emphasizing photography’s material instability. Fluid identity, institutional power, and bodily borders intersect, revealing  the tensions between who we are and how we are labeled.

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