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Gallery and
Online Exhibition 
Ketty
Haolin Zhang
Paintings by Ketty
Haolin Zhang
March 17 – May 30, 2025
Art Beatus
(Vancouver) Consultancy Ltd is very
pleased to present an online
exhibition of paintings by Ketty Haolin
Zhang. Visitors
are also welcome to visit the
gallery in person to see the exhibition.
Selected from an ongoing series, Zhang's
paintings are based on digital documentation
of her life and travels that also draw from
her diasporic experiences as a
1.5-generation immigrant who has so far
spent half her life residing in China and
the other half in Canada.
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While the works take place in diverse places
in different countries, or even in flight,
they all take place at night. Her use of the
nocturnal is “a way to readdress feelings of
uncertainty that have informed Zhang's
identity since her early teen years” as well
as a place where she can explore “her
relationship with placelessness, liminality
and (non)belonging in a hyper-globalized
world.”
In her paintings of nightlife, Zhang
addresses antipodal themes – such as
closeness and distance, being known and
unknown, being seen and unseen – through
high contrast images depicting literal light
and dark. The portrayal of people in this
series seems peripheral where figures are
often obscured or disembodied through
cropping. In Four friends dancing,
we only see the feet of the dancing
companions on the dance floor while we only
see the cropped hands of the diners in Glory
and Unfinished Business. While Fortune
ostensibly appears to be a straightforward
portrait of two clubbers, it is not until
one realizes this is a selfie taken from a
reflection of a mirror that the paintings's
subjects are somewhat removed from the
viewer by this additional illusion. Even in
Night of the super moon, the
celestial spectacle is only suggested as
moonlight through tree branches reflected
off the ground.
Ketty Haolin Zhang was born in
Chaoyang, China and currents lives in
Vancouver, Canada. She studied at the
University of British Columbia where she
completed a double major in Fine Arts and
Art History. Zhang has had a number
of solo and group exhibitions and has
participated in several residencies and art
auctions.
Please contact Art Beatus (Vancouver)
for more information about the artist and
these works.
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10.30am-6pm and is closed on weekends and
holidays. Underground and street parking is
available. Free admission.
Art Beatus (Vancouver) acknowledges we are
located on the traditional, ancestral and unceded
territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam),
Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Sel̓íl̓witulh
(Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
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