HI, im Xinying Zhang

I am an illustrator and picture book creator working across animation, printmaking, and book arts. My work explores emotional neglect, family relationships, and collective experiences of migration through visual storytelling and experimental media.

< Blue & Pink >

This project integrates the art forms of picture books and animation, focusing on the widespread neglect of children's emotional needs in East Asian families and revealing the far - reaching impact of such neglect on children's mental health.

House

This picture book focuses on the demolition of urban villages, using vivid illustrations to satirise the phenomenon of " Nail households" being belittled and to reveal the contradictions and issues in contemporary society.

< Home Coming >

This is an accordion-fold picture book themed around Spring Festival travel on a slow green train. Each page represents one carriage — pull it open and it becomes a long train. The book is designed to be shared among real passengers on a train, offering a moment of warmth and company during the long journey home.

Accordion-fold Picture book
Display
Collage
cyanotype
< My Way To School >

This project is composed of 4 double- sided tunnel books, describing my self-perception of walking the same road at different periods and with different mindsets.