About The Artist

Guigen Zha is a Los Angeles-based visual artist. He had an MFA in painting from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2018. Zha’s paintings have been selected for many exhibitions and awards, for example, the Second Asian Art Biennial in Hong Kong; Harmony: Contemporary Chinese Exhibition of Small Oil Paintings in Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, and in Beijing of China Oil Painting Institute Art Museum; Dynamics: Chinese Contemporary Oil Painting Research Exhibition, Kunstraum Villa Friede, Bonn, Germany; Winner of the 50th, 54th Creative Quarterly International Art Competition in New York; the Zhou B Spirit Award at the National Wet Paint MFA Biennial 2018 in Chicago; and selected on the cover of Circle Quarterly Art Review magazine in 2021. His works and artistic achievements have been published in China Daily, Chinese L.A. Daily, Contemporary Oil Painting, Global Art, et al.