Zed Xu 榛子瞬 is a Chinese-born interdisciplinary artist living and making in Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa New Zealand. Working across film, performance and mark-making, Zed creates work that asks what happens when migration, belonging, and the myriad of ways we learn to become ourselves are lived and felt.
Zed’s art practice emerges from childhood musical training, migratory experience, and a prosthetic makeup career. Their debut film, Now You See Me如梦初醒, won the Creative Eye Award at the Los Angeles Asian Film Awards in 2024. Zed has performed live at the Auckland Fringe Festival 2024, the Auckland Pride Festival 2025 and at Enjoy Contemporary Art Space 2026.
Zed holds an MFA with 1st-class honours from Elam, the School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland.
