Shelly Zhang is a Ph.D. student in the History of Art & Architecture Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her primary research interest lies the intermedial relationship between text, image and material medium in Chinese ink painting. Before coming to UCSB, she has interned at the Asian Art Department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and worked as a research specialist at a contemporary art museum in China. She received her B.A. in Global Liberal Studies from NYU in 2018 and her M.A. in History of Art & Archaeology from The Institute of Fine Arts, NYU in 2020.