Artist Profile: Lingshan Zhao

Overview
Lingshan Zhao is a Chinese-born painter based in New York whose work explores the interplay between atmosphere, memory, and perception. Through delicate oil compositions, Zhao captures liminal spaces—those suspended between dream and presence, clarity and obscurity. Her brushwork suggests environments rather than defines them, inviting viewers into an emotive experience of stillness and dissolution.

Zhao’s practice is meditative and intuitive, driven by subtle gestures and tonal shifts. Influenced by traditional Chinese ink painting and contemporary abstraction, her canvases evoke both internal and external landscapes—quiet spaces of transformation where breath, thought, and place converge.

Artwork Title: Breath
Year of Creation: 2024
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 12 in x 12 in
Location: New York, NY, USA