Bio

Zen Du is a multimedia artist, college professor, and art educator. She was born in Russia in 1983. She received her BA in Linguistics in Russia and shortly after immigrated to the US. In 2012, she graduated from Appalachian State University, North Carolina, with a BFA. Du received her MFA from San Francisco Art Institute in 2016 and had multiple group and solo shows in the San Francisco Bay Area and the California’s Central Valley, including her solo show in Marin Museum of Contemporary Art. Her work is in public collections in Maine and California. She has been featured in Studio Art Magazine, Marin Independent Journal, and Art Business Magazine, among other local and web publications. She lives and works in Chico, California.