Education:
Academy of Art University, Bachelor of Art, Illustration, San Francisco, CA (2015)
Selected Solo & Two-Person Exhibitions:
2023 Language of Form, Heron Arts, San Francisco, CA (2023); In Essence, Glass Rice Gallery, San Francisco, CA (2022); Puzzle Play, Nielsen Arts, Berkeley, CA (2021).
Selected Group Exhibitions:
ART021 art fair, with Soul Art Center, Shanghai, China (2024); The 24 Windows, Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai, China (2024); 11th Annual Made in Paint, The Sam and Adele Golden Gallery, New Berlin, NY (2024); Keepsake, Uprise Art, New York, NY (2023); The de Young Open, de Young Museum / Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA (2023); After Dark: Sharing Places, Exploratorium Museum, San Francisco, CA (2023); Tinguely Museum, Basel, Switzerland (2022), Atelier Mondial, Basel, Switzerland (2022); Neon Was Never Brighter, Contemporary Art Festival, San Francisco, CA (2022); Embodiment, Heron Arts, San Francisco, CA (2022); The August Gallery, San Francisco, CA (2022); Skate, Mirus Gallery, San Francisco, CA (2022); Palette Cleanser, Palette Gallery, San Francisco, CA (2022)
Artist Residencies:
Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai, China (2024); Golden Foundation for the Arts, New Berlin, New York (2023); Edition/Basel, Basel, Switzerland (2022); Casa Lü, Mexico City, Mexico (2022); Meta (Facebook) Open Arts, Burlingame, CA (2021); Edition/Basel, Basel, Switzerland, and San Francisco, USA (2020).
Private and Public Collections:
UC Davis Health, Sacramento, CA; Swatch Group / Swatch Art Peace Hotel; Google, Mountain View, CA; Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC); Imagery Estate Winery, Glen Ellen, CA; Children’s Hospital of Orange County, Orange, CA; Meta (formerly Facebook), Burlingame, CA; New York-Presbyterian Hospital, NY; First Republic Bank, San Francisco, CA; International Business Machines (IBM), Armonk, NY; Bei Hotel, San Francisco, CA; Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA; Kaiser Permanente San Diego Medical Center, San Diego, CA; Kaiser Permanente Pleasanton Technology Center, Pleasanton, CA; Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Manhattan, New York City; Guizhou Minzu (Nationalities) University, Guiyang, Guizhou, China; Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA.
Media Appearances:
Artist interview / In conversation with Carlo Giordanetti, Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai, China (2024); "Filmmaker Nick Dorsey Visualizes the Eccentric Headspace of Artist Erin Zhao." By Oakley Anderson-Moore, SONY CINE. May 15. (2024); "To Be A Child: Exploring Creative Wonder with Haoyun Erin Zhao." Short film about artist Haoyun Erin Zhao by Nicolas Dorsey. (2024); "Playdate Episode 4 - Haoyun Erin Zhao." YouTube, November 20. (2023); “Artist Interview: Haoyun Erin Zhao.” Sam and Adele Golden Foundation for The Arts. July 12. (2023); “Rising Stars: Meet Haoyun Erin Zhao.” Voyage LA. January 4. (2023); “Meet Haoyun Erin Zhao: Multidisciplinary Artist.” Shoutout LA. May 16. (2022)
Publications:
Traces of Time: Guizhou Century Print (2023); International Artist Magazine, issue #126, April/May (2019); Artist Portfolio Magazine, issue #40 (2019)