Shellie Zhang (b. 1991, Beijing, China) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Tkaronto/Toronto, Canada. By uniting both past and present iconography with the techniques of mass communication, language and sign, Zhang explores the contexts and construction of a multicultural society by disassembling approaches to tradition, gender, the diaspora and popular culture. She creates images, objects and projects in a wide range of media to explore how integration, diversity and assimilation is implemented and negotiated, and how manifestations of these ideas relate to lived experiences. Zhang is interested in how culture is learned and sustained, and how the objects and iconographies of culture are remembered and preserved.

Zhang has exhibited at venues including WORKJAM (Beijing), Asian Art Initiative (Philadelphia) and Gallery 44 (Toronto). She is a recipient of grants such as the Toronto Arts Council’s Visual Projects grant, the Ontario Arts Council’s Visual Artists Creation Grant and the Canada Council’s Project Grant to Visual Artists. She is a member of EMILIA-AMALIA, a feminist reading and writing group. In 2017, She was an Artist-in-Residence at the Art Gallery of Ontario. In 2021, she was a recipient of the Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts Artist Award. Her work has been published in Canadian Art, the Toronto Star, Blackflash Magazine, CBC Arts, and C Magazine. Recent and upcoming projects include exhibitions at AKA Artist-Run (Saskatoon), the Anchorage Museum (Anchorage, Alaska) and the plumb (Toronto). Zhang works with Patel Brown Gallery.

Morris Lum is a Trinidadian-born artist, photographer, and educator whose work explores the hybrid nature of the Chinese-Canadian community through photography and documentary practices. Morris received his MFA in Documentary Media from Ryerson University in 2009. His work examines how Chinese Canadian and American histories have been represented in the media and in archival material. Lum’s work has been exhibited and screened across Canada and the United States. Over the last decade, Lum has been working on a cross-North America project that looks specifically at the transformation of Chinatowns.