Lu Zhang is a multi-disciplinary artist, researcher, and organizer who works in drawing, installation, and text — often in response to a chosen site.

Lu has produced projects in the United States, China, Finland, Mexico City and the Netherlands. She has collaborated with ICA Baltimore, PressPress, and SPARE to make publications and exhibitions; the George Peabody Library to launch a studio residency program, and The Contemporary to build resource initiatives for artists. Lu is the founder of the Institute for Expanded Research, an artist project that activates sites and leverages resources to produce and present projects in collaboration with other artists.

Lu Zhang received her MFA in Painting at the Frank Mohr Institute in the Netherlands and her BFA in General Fine Arts at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore.