Time Gaps

Cindy Zhang is studying her BFA degree in the School of Art Institute of Chicago with focus in film and sculpture as a merit scholarship recipient. She has exhibitions about painting, film, photography, and sculpture installation held both outside and inside of the School of Art Institute of Chicago. The personal video she shot and edited wins her the Best Talent Award in Beijing, China from the votes of tons and thousands of citizens. It was broadcast at one of the most viewed television Beijing BTV Youth Channel. Also, she is an amateur model who has walked and stood on stage and helped with minor choreography and staging for Model of Fashion Show for Beijing BTV Youth Channel. Her own short film Library Whim, which is about a peculiar piano experience was broadcast on Chicago’s public access network CANTV(Channel 21). Her short film Time Gaps is selected by 2016 Great Lakes International Shorts Festival, 2016 Director Circle Festival of Shorts Selection and Aword - Independent Film Festival & Screenplay Contest. She is also a participant of Until Justice Rolls Down Like Waters, Martin Luther King, Jr. Mural Competition at Hostelling International Chicago, aiming to express social justice and equality. On her spare time, she usually volunteers for the Museum of the Art Institute as public assistant and Chicago Underground Festival as a photographer. She used to help children with cerebral palsy and taught them the knowledge with visual language with special care and attention. She believes if we can touch the pain of the world, we can release freedom. With her background in sculpture, photo, film and visual language, she believes she could produce more creative and meaningful work in the future.