Diana Mulan Zhu

Diana Mulan Zhu is a second-generation Chinese-American artist, visual activist, filmmaker, technologist, and scholar seeking to understand shame, the body, sexuality, and the digital gaze through painting, video art, performance, and installation.
Diana grew up in the Pacific Northwest and studied computer science and studio art at Vanderbilt University for her BA. She has an MA in Media, Culture, and Communication from NYU, where she wrote her thesis on how cyber sexual assault and cable television can mediate each other as virtual violence. Diana also has her MFA in Art from Stony Brook University and was a Graduate Fellow at DISCO (Digital Inquiry, Speculation, Collaboration, and Optimism). Diana has over a decade of professional experience as a technologist at tech and media powerhouses such as Microsoft, Intel, NBCUniversal, and Viacom.
Diana is a PhD student and Cota Robles Fellow at the University of California Cruz in Film and Digital Media. She was recently the Emily Mason-Wolf Kahn Fellow as an artist in residence at Vermont Studio Center. Diana has screened and exhibited her work internationally, including at Anthology Film Archives (New York), Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery(New York), and Prisma Estudio (Lisbon).