Guigen
Zha

Guigen Zha was born in Nanjing, China, and spent his early artistic career working as an art instructor, animation background artist, and graphic designer in Nanjing, Shenzhen, and Shanghai. He came to the United States in 2011, and completed his MFA at the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2018. Zha's paintings are rooted in his cross-cultural life experience, superimposing Eastern subject matter and aesthetics with Western techniques and conceptual approach.