(b. Aug 2000, Australia)
Education
2025 Masters of Fine Arts, Painting/Drawing, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, USA
2020 - 2022 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, AUS
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Labyrinths, Futures Gallery, Melbourne, AUS
Group Exhibitions
2025 (Forthcoming) Benefit Auction 2025, Kasmin Gallery, New York, USA
2024 Nostalgia, Misc Object, Melbourne, Australia
2023 Back To School, KuBe Art Space, Ethan Cohen Gallery, Beacon, New York, USA
2023 Un-Home, Museum of Chinese Australian History, Melbourne, AUS
2023 Through Time and Space, MCAH, Australian Chinese Embassy, Beijing, CHN
2023 Jugs, CraftVictoria, Melbourne, AUS
2022 Through Time and Space, Museum of Chinese Australian History, Melbourne, AUS
2022 Neo-Dynasty, Discordia Gallery, Melbourne, AUS
2021 Spring1883, Discordia Gallery, Melbourne, AUS
2021 Emerging Artist Award, FortyFiveDownstairs, Melbourne, AUS
2020 Blacktown City Art Prize, Blacktown Arts Centre, Sydney, AUS
2020 Brunswick Small Work Art Prize, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne, AUS
2019 Footscray Art Prize, VU at MetroWest, Melbourne, AUS
2018 Creative Generations, Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, AUS
2017 Creative Generations, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sunshine Coast, AUS
Awards
2025 The Philippeaux Endowed Scholarship, Pratt Institute
2024 The AusArt Graduate Scholarship, the American Australian Association and the American
Friends of the National Gallery of Australia
2024 The Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship, Painting, Creative Australia
2021 Blacktown City Art Prize People's Choice, Sydney
2017 Creative Generations Exhibition Excellence Award, Brisbane
Press
2024 The American Friends of the National Gallery of Australia "Leon Zhan AusArt Fellow…”
2024 Creative Australia "Young actors, painters and poets share in $350k worth of scholarships”
2024 Australian Arts Review "Young actors, painters and poets share in $350k worth of…”
2024 Futures Gallery "FUTURES is thrilled to present a solo exhibition by Leon Zhan..”
2024 Abbotsford Convent "Melbourne Design Week 2024: Nostalgia”
2023 Green Magazine "Jugs: An Exhibition of Contemporary Ceramic Vessels…”
2022 To Be Magazine "Discordia and Harrolds Present: Leon Zhan's 'Neo-Dynasty'...”
2021 Black Town Arts "The winner of the BCAP2020 People's Choice Prize is..."
2019 Dazed "Meet the artist who stuck bananas to Nike AF1s for the #content"
2017 The Courier Mail “Leon's talent brush with GOMA”