Based on Dharug Country in western Sydney, Tian Zhang is an independent curator, facilitator, writer and collaborative artist working at the intersections of art, cultural practice and social change. Her practice is underscored by conversation, criticality, solidarity and joy. She is a founding co-director of Pari, and was previously part of the inaugural Artistic Directorate of Next Wave, and Chair and co-director at Firstdraft.

In 2022, Tian participated in Documenta Fifteen as co-facilitator of Gudskul’s collective studies program — living, cooking, eating, cleaning and communing within the Museum Fridericianum for 50 days. Her text ‘A manifesto for radical care or how to be a human in the arts’ was first published online by Sydney Review of Books, with print editions by documenta fifteen’s Lumbung Press and Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Canada.