***DIAMOND MIND 2.0*** film stills, 2023–24

***OBSIDIAN (ITZLI)***, ***EBONY (HBNY)***, ***YUCCA ANGUSTISSIMA (ICZOTL)***, 2022

***Run O’ The River / Bitter Medicine (ROTR-BM II)***, 2020–22

***ELECTRIC SUTURES ALPHABETICAL***, 2017–19

Linda Zeb Hang is a queer Hmong-American, Rotterdam-based artist best known for their conceptual artist’s books, hypnagogic book design, sculptural installations, fine art printmaking and experimental video art.

Their conte of scanning voices cross-sections the invisible density, flavor profiles, and omniscient presence of the woven, yet frayed environment. They consider innovative organizing and bookbinding to be objective oxygen, interacting with media to animate the duality and ‘non-duality’ of space.

In their expanded publishing practice, Zeb Hang weaves distinctive flavor profiles, such as letter-locking, abstract drawings, paintings, poetry, textiles, dance and music into mood architecture, scenography, storytelling and sentient patterns. Forming close textures with publics, while designing relationships inherent and persistent in complexities of matter, regardless of their craft.

The fiber-optics of place, an artery area, a micro-climate theory, spacecraft language and calyxes of meditation make visible their pocket cosmology.

Born 1986 in the industrial port city of South-side Stockton CA to proletariat Hmong refugees, they are rooted from the aesthetic and civic praxis of Southeast Asian Animistic, Shaman and Buddhist life-world.

They shape sound and material cultures through technical experimentation, working spontaneously, collecting and generating information to arrive at a knotty mixed-media synthesis.

***THE ANTIQUE SORCERER*** film stills, 2022–4

Flexibility, instinct and intuition are their chosen guides. Their tools are digital, machine age and ‘primitive.’

***Open Syllables: Paths, Dangers, Strategies***, 2004–2020

Founded in 2013, their mixed-media imprint FIST is held within collective and public spheres, including Queer Work Archive (RI); the Thomas J. Watson Library at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC); Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Library, Smithsonian Institution (NYC); Letterform Archive (CA); The SFMOMA Library + Archives (CA); and Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee (BE), among others.

They have exhibited in New York City, Los Angeles, Tokyo, and The Netherlands. Printed and bound in the US and abroad such as Kala Art Institute in Berkeley CA, the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop in New York City, and at Frans Masereel Centrum in Kasterlee BE.

Their experimental workshops in craft as a cultural bearer are often presented in community centers, artist residencies, academia, and international cultural institutions. As a life long learner, they have taught, and co-taught with a variety of grassroots organizers, educators, and movement makers.

LZH studied Sculpture, Typographic Design, Book Arts and Horticulture in San Francisco CA from 2004–2007, and currently lives and works in Rotterdam NL.

All images, works and text copyright Linda Zeb Hang.

***Suminagashi: To Print and Publish Soul Reachers***, large-scale collaborative printmaking, making public the collective vat, co-taught with Tiffany Pech; **HATCH**—***Helping Artists To Create Here***, South-side Stockton CA, 2024

A Free Reed Is A Vibrating Tongue
Which Does Not Need To
Beat Against A Solid Surface, 2022

***CHIRP BOOMERANG (Cross Fade Rhythm)***, 2019

***SALVO*** and ***WARBLE*** film stills, 2020–22

***AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN COMMUNITY PRINT SHOPS***, 2019–2024

***LINDA ZEB HANG***, ***ROTTERDAM SOUTH NL***. 2025

***CRITICAL FOOD GEOGRAPHY AND EDUCATION***, 2014–ongoing
CHEM: Origins of Natural and Dry Farming; CHEM II: International Cultured Food Processes; CHEM III: Soil, Nematodes and Scanning Systems. #sproutouts

***Under Dry Sky on Brittle Earth, Cold Sky on Dark Earth***, 2024

***NEMATODE/BOOMSLANG SCALES I–III***, 2019

***Run O’ The River / Bitter Medicine (ROTR-BM I)***, 2020–22

ATELIER LZH
LINDA ZEB HANG
1986 South-side Stockton CA
Lives and works in Rotterdam NL
info@fistbiz.com

Education
2004–2007, San Francisco CA
Sculpture, Typographic Design, Book Arts, Horticulture

Public Collections
Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Library, Smithsonian Institution, New York NY
The Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography, The Cooper Union, New York NY
Center for Book Arts, New York NY
University at Buffalo Libraries Special Collection, The Poetry Collection, Buffalo NY
University of Pennsylvania at Fisher Fine Arts Library, Philadelphia PA
Queer Work Archive, Providence RI
John M. Flaxman Library, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL
The Robert E. and Jean R. Mahn Library, Ohio University, Athens OH
Carl A. Kroch Library, RMC at Cornell University, Ithaca NY
Kala Art Institute, Berkeley CA
San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco CA
The SFMOMA Library + Archives, San Francisco CA
Letterform Archive, San Francisco CA
Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee BE
AGA LAB, Amsterdam NL

Solo and 2-Person Exhibitions
2024
The Antique Sorcerer, Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair, 548 W 22nd St, New York, New York, April 2024
2022
Run O’ The River / Bitter Medicine, Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair, 548 W 22nd St, New York, New York, October 2022
2020
Salvo, Virtual Brooklyn Art Book Fair, New York City, June 2020
2019
Open Syllables: Paths, Dangers, Strategies 2004–2020, Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair, MoMa PS1, Long Island City, New York, September 2019
From Border 2 Grove: A Reprographic Dialect, SF Art Book Fair, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, California, July 2019
2018
FIST / LIES, with Ka Yan, Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York, September 2018
Pattern Erosion, Booklegger, Humboldt County, California, April 2018
2017
Electric Sutures Alphabetical, Branch Museum of Architecture and Design, Richmond, Virginia, December 2017
RELIQ, Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair, MoMa PS1, Long Island City, New York, September 2017
SCRIBE, Ace Hotel, New York City, September 2017
Iconicity of Style / Cradle Regalia, Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair, Geffen Contemporary at MoCA, Los Angeles, California, February 2017
2016
Oxywave, Scrolls I & II, Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair, MoMa PS1, Long Island City, New York, September 2016
Divinity in Motion, Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair, Geffen Contemporary at MoCA, Los Angeles, California, February 2016
Dancer on a Blade, ELLA, Los Angeles, California, February 2016
2015
C-I-P-H-R: Cycles, Inspiration, Pastiche, Harlequin, Rarities, Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair, MoMa PS1, Long Island City, New York, September 2015
SUMMER PROPHECIES, Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair, Geffen Contemporary at MoCA, Los Angeles, California, January 2015
2014
Fertile Crescent, Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair, MoMa PS1, Long Island City, New York, September 2014
Bare Toy, Kyoto University of Art and Design & Tohoku University of Art and Design, Tokyo, Japan, September 2014
Scripture, Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair, Geffen Contemporary at MoCA, Los Angeles, California, January 2014
2013
Mellow Hopes of Paradise, Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair, MoMa PS1, Long Island City, New York, September 2013

Group Exhibitions
2023
Ultradependent Public School: The Microcosmicroom, BAK—Basis Voor Actuele Kunst, Utrecht, The Netherlands, April 1–May 27, 2023
2022
Unfolding Forms: Multiple Approaches to the Book, Center for Book Arts, New York, New York, July 14–September 17, 2022
2021
Experiential Lectures from Exodus: School of Expression, Seed Summer 2021, curated by Taylor Simone and Egbert Vongmalaithong, ICA VCU, Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, August 2021
2018
HUTONG WHISPERS, curated by Amy Suo Wu, Filodrammatica Gallery, Rijeka, Croatia, November 2018
2016
Printed Matter, curated by Shannon Michael Cane, New Art Dealers Association (NADA) New York, Pier 36 Basketball City, May 2016

Performances and Screenings
2023
Jangle, Film Director, BAK—Basis Voor Actuele Kunst, Utrecht, The Netherlands, April 1–May 27, 2023
2022
Black Poem, GeoGlyph, A Chanting, Poetry Reading at Center for Book Arts, New York, New York, July 14, 2022
2021
A Microclimate: Foodscaping and the Sensorial Rhythm, Film Director, part of Experiential Lectures from Exodus: School of Expression, ICA VCU, Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University, Chickahominy and Powhatan terrain in Richmond, Virginia, August 6, 2021
2020
I Know, Digital Video Collage Performer, part of dancer/choreographer Bill T. Jones’ #InPursuitoftheWe, Holland Festival 2020, The Netherlands, June 17, 2020
2018
Wonderful Law PT2, Principal Choreographer and Dancer, Directed by Ka Yan, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York, September 2018

Projects
2024
Garden of Learning, Sculptor and Gardener, Doe-Het-Zelf Werkplaats, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, August 2024–present
body less, collaborative Broadside Reading Abstract Series with Senka Milutinović, Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium, June 2024
2023
Radiossage: Reading Rhythms Club, Selector, collaborative musical selection with Senka Milutinović and Julia Wilhelm; artist talk with Czar Kristoff, BAK—Basis Voor Actuele Kunst, Utrecht, The Netherlands, April 1–May 27, 2023
2022
Artifact, Broadside Reading Abstract Series, Center for Book Arts, New York, New York, July 14–September 17, 2022
Run O’ The River / Bitter Medicine, Poet, Painter, Designer, Printmaker, Bookbinder, Center for Book Arts, New York, New York, January 2020–January 2023
2021
FOODSCAPING AND THE SENSORIAL RHYTHM, Sculptor and Gardener, site-specific micro-climate installation for Exodus: School of Expression’s Seed Summer Residency, BIPOC Community Garden, Richmond, Virginia, June–July 2021
The Effervescent Seed, Poet, Painter, Designer and Printmaker, Broadside Reading Abstract Series, Experimental Lectures from Exodus: School of Expression, Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University, August 6, 2021
2020
A Hand, A Question, Mixed-media Printmaker, collaboration with poet Celina Su for Broadside Reading Poetry Series, curated by Asiya Wadud, Center for Book Arts, New York, New York, Oct 1, 2020
Human Hive Communal Store, Double-Suminagashi Marbling Printmaker, curated by Terence Koh for Diary, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, New York, May 27, 2020
2014 – ongoing
Critical Food Geography and Education, CHEM: Origins of Natural and Dry Farming; CHEM II: International Cultured Food Processes; CHEM III: Soil, Nematodes and Scanning Systems. #sproutouts

Honors and Residencies
2024
Artist-in-Residence, Talking Dolls Printmaking Studio, Detroit, Michigan, October–November 2024
Artist-in-Residence, Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium, May–June 2024
Artist-in-Residence, Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, New York, New York, May 2024
Artist-in-Residence, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, California, April 2024
Artist-in-Residence, HATCH Workshop, Stockton, California, December 2023–March 2024
2023
Artist-in-Residence, AGA Lab, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, April 2023
Artist Grantee, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, California, February 2023
Artist Grantee, CCI Arts, Oakland, California, February 2023
Artist Grantee, CERF+, Oakland, California, February 2023
Artist-in-Residence, Artist Alliance Residency, Mills College at Northeastern University, MFA Book Arts Program, directed by Brooke Hardy, Oakland, California, January 2023
2022
The Classroom: Run O’ The River / Bitter Medicine Artists’ Talk co-presented by FIST and Sming Sming Books, Dia Art Foundation, New York City, October 16, 2022
Artist-in-Residence, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, California, May 2022–June 2023
2021
Artist-in-Residence and Gardener, Exodus: School of Expression’s Seed Summer Residency, Chickahominy and Powantan Terrain, directed by Taylor Simone, Richmond, Virginia, June–July 2021
2020
Mixed-Media Scholar, Center for Book Arts, New York City, September 2019–September 2020
Printmaker’s Talk, Broadside Reading Poetry Series, Center for Book Arts, New York City, October 1, 2020
2019
Speaker/Storyteller of the Future, Greez: I Like, I Wish, I Wonder: Possibilities and Fantasies of POC/QTPOC Designers, speaking panel curated and moderated by designer/writer Rin Kim Ni, Geffen Contemporary at MOCA Museum, Los Angeles, California, April 13, 2019
2017
Lecturer, Open Syllables: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, OBJECTS + METHODS Lecture Series, curated by Professor Nicole Killian, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), Richmond, Virginia, November 30, 2017
Artist-in-Residence, Ace Hotel, New York City, September 2017
2015
Bodywork Residency, Heartwood Institute, Humboldt County, California, January 2015–December 2015
2012–2014
Design and Permaculture Residency, HVR, Somerset, California, September 2012–February 2014

Guest Critic
2023
MFA Book Arts program, Mills College at Northeastern University, Artist Alliance Residency, directed by Brooke Hardy, Oakland, California January 2023
2017
MFA Graphic Design Studios program, Professor Nicole Killian, VCUarts Department of Graphic Design, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), Richmond, Virginia, December 2017
2016
BFA Typography and Contemporary Artists’ Books program, Professor Dante Hong Carlos & Professor River Jukes-Hudson, Department of Graphic Design, Art Center College of Design (ACCD), Pasadena, Los Angeles, California, February 2016

Workshops / Teaching
2024
Suminagashi: To Print and Publish Soul Reachers, large-scale collaborative printmaking, making public the collective vat, co-taught with Tiffany Pech; HATCH—Helping Artists To Create Here, Stockton, California, Mar 24-25, 2024
2023
The Diamond Mind II, distribution EQ, psycho-aesthetic signature cultivated by impermanent transparencies, the moving form in film, and the resulting printed matter of collage; BAK—Basis Voor Actuele Kunst, Utrecht, Netherlands, May 10–12, 2023
XPUB DISTRO CLINIC, experimental publishing, co-taught with Clara Balaguer and Amy Pickles; Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, Netherlands, April 25, 2023
The Lantern Mark, structural story-cloths, braiding foresight with image and text, pattern exploration, adventures in symmetrical reversal textures, and divining the distance between the real and ideal; Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, California, January 28, 2023
2020
Reaping a Reprographic Fictive Kinship, collage expedition, scanning histologies, carbon sequestering; Center for Book Arts, New York City, February 22, 2020
2017
Open Syllables: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, initiation of carved negative space weavings; VCUarts Department of Graphic Design, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), Richmond, Virginia, December 1, 2017

Selected Bibliography
LZH—FMC. “Frans Masereel Centrum Residents,” printed matter at-large, May 14–June 21, 2024
https://fransmasereelcentrum.be/en/residents
Goodner, Annie. “Vine and Hollow: Ultradependent Public School and the Necessary Paradoxes of the Liberated Institution,” e-flux Education, May 26, 2023
https://www.e-flux.com/education/features/542305/vine-and-hollow-ultradependent-public-school-and-the-necessary-paradoxes-of-the-liberated-institution
LZH. “Ultradependent Public School,” BAK—Basis Voor Actuele Kunst, April 1, 2023
https://www.bakonline.org/program-item/ultradependent-public-school
Sming, Vivian. “The NYABF 2022 Classroom—Run O’ The River / Bitter Medicine,” Dia Art Foundation, October 16, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMVbjmMaFF4&t=12356s
https://www.smingsming.com/collections/frontpage/products/linda-zeb-hang-keith-graham-run-o-the-river-bitter-medicine
Simone, Taylor. “EXPERIENTIAL LECTURES FROM EXODUS: SCHOOL OF EXPRESSION,” The Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University — ICA VCU, August 6, 2021
https://icavcu.org/events/experiential-lectures-from-exodus-school-of-expression
PM Tables. “Virtual Studio Visits: Books by Brian Blomerth, Linda Zeb Hang, and Jordan River,” Printed Matter, August 13, 2020
https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/tables/16822
Cassell, Dessane Lopez. “The Virtual Brooklyn Art Book Fair Showcases New Artists’ Books, Zines, and More,” Hyperallergic, June 23, 2020
https://hyperallergic.com/572802/brooklyn-art-book-fair-virtual-edition/
King, Kelsey. “The Center for Book Arts, Winter 2020,” Artists-in-Residence; Reaping a Reprographic Fictive Kinship, February 22, 2019, pp. 2, 14, 18
Kim, Rin. “Greez,” Printed Matter, Inc., April 13, 2019
https://laabf2019.printedmatterartbookfairs.org/Saturday-13
Gopinath, Gabrielle. “Book Arts at Booklegger,” The North Coast Journal, April 5, 2018
https://www.northcoastjournal.com/humboldt/threaded-discussion/Content?oid=8601881
Oakley, Be. “The G.A.P. Selector,” The Genderfail Archive Project, November 30, 2017
http://genderfailarchiveproject.com/fist.html
Killian, Nicole. “Objects + Methods,” November 30, 2017
https://arts.vcu.edu/graphicdesign/
Lefebvre, Antoine. “California,” ARTZINES #8, September 22, 2017, pp. 12-15; artists’ books
The Ace Hotel: “Ace Air Resident,” September 10, 2017
https://www.acehotel.com/calendar/newyork/ace-air
Hyperallergic. “New York Art Book Fair,” September 18, 2015
Hartman, Eviana. “Seen on the Street: A Grunge Aesthetic at the L.A. Art Book Fair,” The New York Times Style Magazine, February 2, 2015
https://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/02/la-art-book-fair-street-style