© 2022 Daisy Ziyan Zhang

FILMOGRAPHY

“BREAK”
2024, Best International Film Award of ArchiShorts | Architecture+Design Film Festival Winnipeg, Canada

“WRINKLES”
2023, Official Selection of Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands
2023, Official Selection of ArchFilmLund Film Festival, Sweden
2023, finalist of Venice Architecture Film Festival, Italy 
2023, finalist of 17th Istanbul International Architecture and Urban Films Festival, Türkiye
2023, Official Selection of Vienna Architektur. Film. Sommer 2023, Austria
2023, (chapter “Caretaking”) shortlisted at Copenhagen Architecture Festival Film Mosaic Competition, Denmark
2023, winner for “Transmedial Media Architecture” at Media Architecture Biennale, Canada

“NO LEFTOVERS NO LEFT OUT”
2023, Official Selection of Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands
2023, finalist of Venice Architecture Film Festival, Italy 
2023, shortlisted at Copenhagen Architecture Festival Film Mosaic Competition, Denmark
2023, Honourable Mention at ArchiShorts | Architecture+Design Film Festival Winnipeg, Canada

“DAYS AND NIGHTS”
2023, winner of ArchiShorts | Architecture+Design Film Festival Winnipeg, Canada
2023, winner&jury vote of MIT in 3:00 Film Competition, USA

“MELT REMELT”
2023, top3 nomination for Future Trends and Prototypes at Media Architecture Biennale, Canada



EXPLORATION

2024, MacDowell Fellow, New Hampshire, USA
2023-present, Independent Filmmaker, itinerant
2023-present, Designer at Dunes Workshop, New York, USA

Summer 2023, Researcher at SPBR Arquitetos, São Paulo, Brazil
Fall 2022, Teaching Assistant, 4.021: How to Design (Almost) Anything by Skylar Tibbits, MIT, Cambridge, USA
Summer 2022, Independent Researcher, Mexico City, Mexico
Summer 2022, Researcher at Ensamble Studio, Madrid, Spain
2020-2023, Photographer, Filmmaker and Communication Assistant for Department of Architecture, MIT, Cambridge, USA
2021-2022, Columnist, “Out of Frame”, MIT, Cambridge, USA
2020, Researcher, “Many Houses/Many Worlds”, at Venice Biennale, Italy
2019-2020, Venice Architecture Biennale Curatorial Assistant, Hashim Sarkis Studios, Cambridge, USA
2016-2019, Architecture Designer, Neeson Murcutt Architects, Sydney, Australia
2017-2018, Co-founder, The Freswind Community School Project Initiative, Sydney, Australia



EXHIBITION

2023-2024, “Intimate Immensity: Consumed, Depleted and Worn Down at Home”, UCCA Edge, Shanghai, China
2022, “Frozen Forces” at Cambridge Science Festival, MIT Museum, Cambridge, USA
2022, “Spines” exhibited at MIT Museum as permanent collection, Cambridge, USA
2021, “Desktop”, Keller Gallery, Cambridge, USA
2020, “Play Room”, Keller Gallery, Cambridge, USA
2018,“Ohlen Freswind: patterns for a community school”, Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney, Australia



EDUCATION

2023, Master of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
2016, Bachelor of Design in Architecture, The University of Sydney, Australia
2015, Exchange, University of California, Berkeley, USA



AWARDS & GRANTS

2024, MacDowell Fellowship, New Hampshire, USA
2019-2023, Tuition Scholarship, School of Architecture and Planning, MIT, USA
2023, Artist Research Grant for “Imprinting the Enchanted Everyday”, Council for the Arts, MIT, USA
2023, Research Grant for “Wrinkles”, MIT Global Learning, MIT, USA
2022, Official Selection in category of Fine Art, International Photography Awards
2022, Research Grant for “Caretaking”, MIT Global Learning, MIT, USA
2021, Artist Research Grant for “Melt | Remelt”, Council for the Arts, MIT, USA
2015, International Exchange Outbound Scholarship, The University of Sydney, Australia
2014 - 2015, Dean’s List of Excellence in Academic Performance, The University of Sydney, Australia