Nan Zhao, born in 1987, is a Chinese visual artist based in Munich & Berlin.  Since 2022, she has been engaged in contemporary art practice centered on a continuously evolving visual system.

Her work focuses on “identity” as a core concept, extending into generative relationships between emotional structures, bodily experience, and natural rhythms. In her practice, identity is not understood as a fixed cultural or social category, but as an ongoing process of formation and reconfiguration, shaped by language, perception, and structural forces that resonate with patterns found in nature.

Her work moves between figurative and abstract modes. On one hand, she employs figurative imagery and narrative elements to engage with cultural context and individual experience. On the other, she constructs non-representational visual systems through line, color fields, and fluid structures, allowing images to unfold through continuous generation and reorganization. Together, these approaches form a unified inquiry into how identity emerges and transforms within shifting experiential and structural conditions.

Rather than offering static representations, her practice constructs visual environments in which identity is continuously produced as a dynamic and evolving state.