Bio

Zhu(Judy) Zhu is a delicate artist with superb artistic skills and knowledge of acrylic and oil painting who currently lives in Los Angeles County. Judy was born in Fukuoka, Japan. She got her early education in Liaoning, China. Judy's artistic enlightenment is inspired by Chinese traditional ink painting. Learning the tonality and shade variation of ink in Chinese ink wash painting laid the base for her art career. She has immigrated to California for several years. 
She obtained her BFA degree from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2019. During the study in SFAI, She was selected to have her own honor studio from the second year. She was also selected to present in orientation as the painting major's student representative. After she graduated, she created a critique group for SFAI alumni in the LA area. Currently, she is having her solo exhibition exhibited in the Progress Gallery in Pomona, CA. 
The experience of living in different countries has created her unique multi-side perspective. In her current artworks, she combines traditional figure painting with the illusory background to highlight the strong sense of unreality in physical reality.

Artist Statement

The humor and seriousness in normal life are the main elements to create my paintings. Most of the time I spend on my paintings is, to be honest with myself. There are some moments in everyone’s life embarrassing or feel like something is falling into pieces. Those uncomfortable situations force me to self-reflect. The result always connects to the relationship between myself and the cultural background, upbringing, and societal issues. Through thinking about myself, I believe everyone who lives in society is also the epitome of society. The results produced in a person can also represent people with similar life experiences. I love to find those interesting connections from me to society. That is another important reason that I do not make my paintings to be extremely serious. When people feel hard about some moments in their life, people always can find some way to go through. The little humor found in my painting is a way to make me go through different kinds of difficulties.
For my newest projects, I move my point of view from myself to the people around me, especially my family. There are so many relationships around a human since she/he was born. But the relationship between us and family elders will pass over time. Human, even human history is just like a firework moment. Only time and space are the eternal being. I want to break the common sense to let humans become the eternal being in my artworks. Time and space will be flowing to exist.