Ketty Haolin Zhang (b. Chaoyang) is an emerging artist and a 1.5-generation immigrant settler, having spent half of her life so far in China and half in Canada. Informed by her diasporic experience, her art practice navigates her relationship with placelessness, liminal space and (non)belonging in a hyper-globalized world. She is interested in creating works that embody both closeness and distance – the simultaneous desire to belong and to resist being defined. Zhang holds a BA Double Major in Visual Arts and Art History from the University of British Columbia and has shown at Surrey Art…