Ophelia Zhao

Ophelia Yingqiu Zhao is a writer and curator from Beijing, China, currently living and working on the ancestral lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh and səlil̓wətaʔɬ peoples.

Her research explores the sentience of objects, and delves into the material existence of objects through poetry and speculative fictions. She is also a painter of still life, inquiring into the stillness of objects and their pre-commodity states of being. Zhao holds a MA degree in Critical and Curatorial Studies (2023), and a BFA degree in Visual Arts (2020) from the University of British Columbia.