Isabel Zeng

Isabel Zeng graduated with her MFA in 3D Studio Art from Bowling Green State University. Her practice is invested in contemporary craft, performance, video, and photography. Her work has been exhibited and published nationally and internationally, including at Society of North American Goldsmiths Annual Conference, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Ohio Craft Museum, Contemporary Art Toledo, and Jewelry and Metals Survey (JAMS). She has received various awards and scholarships, including the Ohio Designer Craftsmen Scholarship Award and the Ed Honton Memorial Award for Excellence. Prior to joining the MFA program, Zeng had been the studio assistant of the Woodruff Studio at the Toledo Museum of Art and an independent jewelry artist since 2012. Besides her experience and education in art, Zeng is also an economist. She earned her MA in Economics in 2005 and Ph.D. in Economics in 2009 from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. Currently she is an associate professor in Economics at Bowling Green State University. Her multinational and multidisciplinary background has affected both the content and form of her artwork in a significant way.

Website: www.isabelzeng.com

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Title: Eaters

Living in a modern civilization, we present our identity to the world through the roles that we play and the personas that we choose. Eventually, the self is formed by internalizing all these personas shaped by our life experience. “Eaters” is a performance-based short film which expresses this process of internalization in a raw, intimate, and yet poetic way.