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Psychology 2025 @zhang.rui_hua
This solo play premiered in Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2022 and made its US debut in New York City where I won the award for ‘Best Emerging Actor’
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2023
Photograph of Performance (solo play)
This painting is a depiction of my first month here at Stanford.
2022
Water Color on Paper
This piece uses classical aesthetics to explore man’s grief and natural processes, exploring the idea that humans can create, inform, and be nature.
2017
Charcoal and Pencil on Paper
Inspired by the works of Nina Katchadourian, this piece uses materials scavenged from the Stanford campus to explore the definition of “city.”
2018
Paper Maps on Cardboard
As a landscape photographer, I like to see things in different light. These photos represent my personal interpretation of Stanford.
Photo
This is a painting for children with scars of violence and broken families. The blue hands are suffocating the girl’s strength to speak up.
2016
acrylic on canvas
These two paintings were inspired by the feelings of quarantine—isolation, restlessness, and nostalgia.
2020
gouache (two images combined digitally)
This piece is a manifestation of the growth and maturity, both physically and mentally, found in adolescence. It mimics the flowering of youth.
Photograph of a physical collage (paper, printed image)
This is a self portrait examining the complex nature of identity through both realistic forms and abstract shapes.
Acrylic on Canvas
This artwork examines the place of genetically modified organisms in modern society and how we view them, blurring the line between item and organism.
2014
fine-tip pen and watercolor on paper
Night is when the imagination comes alive.
Digital Illustration
This piece was inspired by the many rooftop cafes and stunning views of the Bosphorus River while I was exploring Istanbul on a summer vacation.
Adobe Photoshop Illustration
This is a portrait of a cat whom I love and cherish.
2019
Oil on canvas
My mother in her monthly kimchi-making ritual, a food that I learned to take pride in despite being initially ashamed of it.
Acrylic Paint on Canvas
Popular Korean and American soda brands represent my Korean-Americanness, and the crushing pressures of assimilation that warps self-perception.
2021
San Francisco at dusk is illuminated by pinpoints of light on the distant hills.
Oil paint on panel
Pair of multimaterial CNC dragonflies (brass, copper, aluminum, steel). The dragonflies explore age and rebirth through corrosion.
2024
Sculpture
A fantastical city illustrating a water-based transportation system.
Digital painting
This is a picture of the hub of the city getting reflected in the river water.
Not sure if this counts, but I created a Stanford logo made from many smaller photos. I can make another one, from more interesting photos.
Digital Photograph