Life is a joke, but I joke seriously.

Sierra Zhang is a LA-based multidisciplinary artist creating (strange) relationship technologies, emotional infrastructures, metaphorical machines, and living languages. As a conceptual artist-poet, comedian, graphic novelist, and filmmaker, he works with the unconscious, spontaneity, history, linguistics, “play,” the ephemeral, and social practices. All of his works are love letters written with invisible ink.

He works across installations, (live-d) rituals, poetry, artist books, games, extended reality, interactive programming, spontaneous playing “nonsense ensemble,” and embodied, condition-based language making “!writing,” integrating art-making as part of his everyday life. He gives memories the bodies of balloons, technology a dependence on human touch, and ambivalence the infrastructure of postal systems. He brings forth personal history into the public field in unexpected ways. By duping the audience with their absurdity, he exposes hidden metaphors, constructs, and conditions in objects, languages, and infrastructures. 

Sierra is pursuing an MFA in Art + Technology at CalArts as a merit fellowship recipient. He received his Bachelor of Arts from UC Berkeley, where he was awarded the Award in Digital Media Arts. You can find his works and curated shows in galleries across California, New York, and China, and in independent magazines.