Anthony Zhang is a first-generation Fuzhounese-American college student majoring in Fine Art. As a many-time transfer student, Anthony has found himself finishing their fourth year at UCLA. Through years of academic pursuit, he has been appointed the Marius De Brabant Scholarship in 2022 for exceptional art in his field and platformed 3 exhibitions. 我们 ‘Wǒmen’, “Beneath/Beyond”, and “It Doesn’t Matter What Part of The Bird, I Eat It All” are all investigations of lifelong development, creative interpretations of his time traversing these institutions and the world as a first-generation Chinese-American. Featured in these three shows were investigations of the Chinese-American lens and processing, paying homage to the cultural neighborhoods of Chinatown, NYC, and Flushing, Queens where he originates. These shows– often staged as artistic interventions, deconstruct one’s relationship with language semiotics and other forms of perception. Familial and cultural artifacts seem to reframe one’s relationship with heritage, ritual, and belonging in a way that the English language cannot. An Asian American born on the outskirts of Chinatown, NYC, these ethnic enclaves seemed to hold the truths of his personal and cultural identity. Anthony believes there’s more than what meets the eye, by dissecting one’s relationship to their cultural simulacrum, it opens up a world of exploration that poses the question: Are we what we consume?