Vivien Moyu Zhang is an internationally collected and awarded artist. She painstakingly hand-tools wood to create sculptures that are bold, emotional and modernly refined. Zhang was born in China, educated and practiced in the United States and Finland. Zhang has been an architect for a decade until she decided to make the things she was designing with her own hands. She went to RIT to learn woodworking and furniture design in 2011 and started Moyu Zhang Studios in 2013 after winning her first Niche Awards. Zhang received MFA from RIT in 2015 and had been sculpting full-time since 2018 in her home studio in North Potomac, Maryland.