Lu Zhang
Currently she is working as a freelance illustrator based in Shenzhen, China.

She captures subtle differences in shape and usually renders them by changing colors.
To create a new world with her brush, she painstakingly searches for the details that would enrich it.

Lu believes that the most fascinating abstract creations come from caring about and observing the authentic, concrete details of life itself.



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for all inquiries ︎:
lucheung.july@gmail.com




Education
MFA, Illustration Practice, Maryland Institute College of Art

Selected Clients
The New York Times
The New Yorker
VICE Media
bearbear creative
EmDash
Harvard Business Alumni Bulletin
Working Not Working
Kenyon Alumni Magazine
L’OFFICIEL (China)
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (China)

ViViCat (Pop Mart Blind Box Series, China)

Awards
Honorable Mention, 3x3 Illustration professional show 18   2021
Chosen Winner, American Illustration 40   2021
Selected, Creative Quarterly 59   2020
Selected, Society of Illustrators 61   2018
Semifinalist, ADAA   2018

Exhibitions
POST IT SHOW 15, Giant Robot 2 Gallery, Los Angeles   2019
fatherland, Grad Show II, RIGGS & LEIDY GALLERY, MICA, Baltimore   2019
Gear and Grow, Unravel the Code, Open Works Baltimore, Baltimore   2019
Humilitas, SOI 61, Museum of Illustration at the Society of Illustrators, New York City   2018
Unravel the Code, Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam   2018
Old Loves, Sheila & Richard Riggs Gallery, MICA, Baltimore   2018
Hands, Fox 3 Gallery, MICA, Baltimore   2017