Yiqi Zhang is a comic artist, researcher, illustrator and writer. She is currently a PhD candidate at University of the Arts London, London College of Communication.
Growing up in Beijing, China, Yiqi moved to the UK for study at the age of 23. This leads her to become aware of the cultural position of an author in the creative process, and to investigate in her PhD transnationalism in comic making from the perspective of a comic practitioner. Read more→
Yiqi is also an ex-atheist and a converted Christian. Artist, arts and comics are in her prayers, that the creation will be reconciled with the One True Creator in the world, through Christ and Christ alone.
Education
University of the Arts London, London College of Communication, London, U.K.
2022-
PhD Research Programme, Practice-led. Globalised Storytellers: Imagining Graphic Narratives from Transnational Perspectives.
Royal College of Art, London, U.K.
2018-2020
MA Visual Communication (Illustration pathway), with Distinction for MA dissertation, Looking at the Language of Comics: Through a Cultural Lens.
School of Visual Arts, New York, U.S.A.
2019
Illustration Residency
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
2017
Exchange student, Visual arts & History of art.
Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
2014-2018
BA History of Art
Exhibition
2021
PhD Research Programme, Practice-led. Globalised Storytellers: Imagining Graphic Narratives from Transnational Perspectives;
2020
Work-in-Progress Show, Royal Collage of Art, London, U.K.; RCA2020 Virtual Show, Royal Collage of Art, London, U.K.; Drink & Draw, Gosh!Comics & Bronken Frontier, London — Invited artist;
2019
P.3 — P.177, Tenderbooks, London, U.K.; The Creative Space, Arlington House, London, United Kingdom Archiver(s), Tate Britain, London, U.K.; Open Studio, School of Visual Arts, New York, United States;
2018
Improvisation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China — Curator
Publication
2021
Linseed Journal, Volume One: The Apple, U.K.—Editorial Illustration ; The Buffalo Hero Meets the World, Elephant Press, China — Children book Illustrations;
2020
The Great Migration of Mice Kingdom, Elephant Press, China — Children book Illustrations;
2021
First Day of Work, sold at Gosh! Comics and Orbital Comics, London, U.K.— Self-published comics
Award
2019
Qingwu Illustration & Comics National Awards, China — Finalist;
2019
Hiii Illustration International Competition 2018 — Finalist
Skills
- Academic Research
- Sequential Visual Storytelling
- Illustration (digital & hand drawn)
- Writing
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Illustrator
- Fluent Mandarin
- English (IELTS 8.0)
