LZH Studio / Linda Zeb Hang

Linda Zeb Hang is a Rotterdam-based artist and founder of the international mixed-media imprint, FIST (est. 2013), and LZH Studio, formed in 2024 shortly after their arrival to the Netherlands. Their practice draws from their training as a textile encoder and having grown up amidst craft preservation in the San Joaquin Valley of California. Born to indigenous Hmong refugees, Linda is interested in “transduction” as kin and code-based syntheses involving complex streams of recognition across generations, rhythms and geographies where patternness, cyclicity, orality, ritual, myth organize our collective oxygen and how we inhabit together. Linda creates works that invite curiosity, encounter, intercession and embodied forms of inquiry by calling into question the “codes of conduct” in an atmosphere, structure, or architecture where a work is experienced. An overarching theme in their work resides in fertile tensions between digital, machine age, and “primitive” technologies. Their projects attune to material cultures and currents of opacity related to this tension by reorienting systems of family and the tools we use to “value” and “gather”. Using this as a starting point, they invent syntaxes of relations through print, pigment, and textile genealogies for audiences to gain insight into deeper spatial fields of imagination. Not only to archive, but also to participate and initiate change within the communities we arrive with, land among, or return to. Best known for their conceptual artist's books, hypnagogic book design, sculptural installations, fine art printmaking, experimental video art, and coeval pedagogy their scanning voices cross-sections the invisible density, flavor profiles, and omniscient presence of the woven, yet frayed environment. They consider innovative organizing to be “objective oxygen”, interacting with media to animate the duality and “non-duality” of space.