Join us for a conversation between artist Ye Zhu and Maëlle Ebelle, Gallery Director and Curator of the Liu Shiming Foundation, celebrating the final weeks of Zhu’s exhibition Underbelly Bloom.
In dialogue with Zhu, Maëlle Ebelle will bring the perspective of the Liu Shiming Foundation, whose legacy has been instrumental in supporting emerging Asian artists and situating their practices within an expansive global context. Together, they will reflect on materiality, cultural transmission, and the shifting frameworks through which the creative process is viewed from a multicultural East/West perspective.
Based in Brooklyn and born in Taishan, China, Ye Zhu works fluidly across painting, sculpture, and public art, assembling organic and industrial materials—tree roots, stones, pigments, plastics, microchips—into immersive surfaces that hover between image and object. His practice excavates what lies beneath the visible: the ways memory, belief, labor, and lived experience become embedded in matter. In Underbelly Bloom, growth emerges from what is hidden or discarded, as decay and regeneration collide to produce forms that feel at once archaeological and futuristic.
EXHIBITION TALK
Artist Ye Zhu with Maëlle Ebelle, Gallery Director and Curator of the Liu Shiming Foundation
Saturday, January 31st, 2pm
DIMIN, New York
Born in France and based in the United States, Maëlle Ebelle is a graduate of Paul Valéry University in Montpellier, France. She joined Ceysson & Bénétière in 2012 and later directed the gallery’s Luxembourg space in 2017 and its New York space in 2023. Since September 2025, she has served as Gallery Director and Curator at the Liu Shiming Art Foundation.
Ye Zhu (b. 1986, Taishan, China) is an interdisciplinary artist focused on painting, public art, and social practice. He has presented solo exhibitions at DIMIN (2023) and Harkawik (2022) in New York, NY; at Moskowitz Bayse (2021) in Los Angeles, CA; and at the Andrew Freedman Home in the Bronx, NY (2022). His work has been included in group exhibitions at The Sugar Hill Museum in Harlem, NY (2022–23), Gavlak Gallery in Los Angeles (2023), Galerie Marguo in Paris, Harper’s (2023, 2021), and James Fuentes (2021) in New York. Over the past year (2024–25), he completed residencies at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC), Dieu Donné Workspace in Brooklyn, and Wave Hill in the Bronx. Zhu has created numerous public projects, including a tribute installation for healthcare workers at the Yale School of Medicine (2022), a billboard project with Kingsgate Project Space in London (2021), A Universe in Strafford, NH (2021), and CONSTELLATION on Governors Island (2021), featured in The New York Times. He is a founding member of Haven Arts Park (2020–2023), an initiative dedicated to transforming contaminated land into an art park, and was a recipient of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant (2022–2023).
