Jacob Zhicheng Zhang is a writer, translator, and researcher of arts and art history based between Berlin (DE) and Toronto (CA). Currently, he is pursuing a doctoral degree in art history at the University of Toronto (CA). Jacob's research interests revolve around Sinophone transnational art and exhibition practices since the 1980s, art education histories in postsocialist and liberal democratic contexts, Asian and Asian North American minoritarian strategies in artmaking, and art produced in and about time-based media.

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Jacob's writings in English and Chinese have been published by the Art Institute of Chicago, Synoptique: An Online Journal of Film and Moving Image Studies, Artforum, ArtReview, Mousse, The Art Newspaper, LEAP, THE SEEN, and Berlin Art Link.​