Qingyu Levrice Zhang
Lives and works in Baltimore, MD
b. Shanghai, China (family origin: Shaoxing, Zhejiang province)
Qingyu(Levrice) Zhang is a multidisciplinary artist based in Baltimore, Maryland, and a BFA student in General Fine Arts at the Maryland Institute College of Art (2022–2026). Working across drawing, painting, sculpture, and installation, Zhang employs materials such as charcoal, ink, gouache, oil paint, clay, resin, and wood, alongside skills in photography, architectural design, and digital illustration.
Their practice explores the intersection of representation and abstraction, often beginning with observational drawings of figures, objects, and architectural spaces before transforming them into layered narratives of memory and change.
Email levrice11@gmail.com
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CV_English 01 Arson Magician (Graphic Novel)LAST UPDATE:
4/10/2026
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Artist statement
I believe that memories and dreams function as their own forms of truth. They reveal how people process trauma, uncertainty, and fear, in forming entire personal realities that feel as concrete as the physical world.
In making the first 13 pages of the graphic novel Arson Magic, I experimented with the qualities of personal realities through a mixed media process and visual storytelling. Using photo collages, paper models, different styles of inking and pastel coloring, I intend to ground the narrative into layers of visible process in making the artwork.
Synopsis
Eywon Behri, a young assistant ophthalmologist lives with his mother’s family in the Kuskya house in a quiet town called Sianrlu. Eywon’s family used to live in Eastpoint city. However, when he was seven years old, his father Jai’Ong Behri was killed in a robbery at Fronso Bank. Before that bank robbery, Bhi Jai’Ong was a hero who saved 8 children during the Hedos Tower explosion. Eywon never stops searching for the truth behind his father’s death. Along the way, he had gotten deep into the conspiracies in their homeland Peczil, and the mysterious force behind the government known as Uta Senad.
Meanwhile, Eywon got into a strange case by helping an injured “foreigner” kid. He met Airi, a young girl who claims to be the kid’s guardian, and surprisingly, a member of the Uta Senad.