Zhang XinYi Selina (b. 1996) is an interdisciplinary artist and architectural designer working between London, Hong Kong, and China. Her practice spans drawing, painting, writing, ceramics, sculpture, video, sound, and spatial installation. Rooted in personal narrative, her work explores memory, trauma, healing, emotional vulnerability, and diasporic experience, drawing inspiration from self-psychoanalysis and the theories of Carl Jung and Daoism.

Born in Shenzhen and raised in Hong Kong, Selina graduated from the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London in 2023, receiving both her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Architecture. Her architectural background informs her sensitivity to space, atmosphere, materiality, society, social responsibility, and the relationship between body and environment.

In 2019, Selina experienced a period of severe depression and suicidal ideation, leading her to pause her education and travel to Koh Phangan, Thailand. Where she immersed herself in yoga, meditation, and spiritual practice, later becoming a teacher herself. This period profoundly transformed her understanding of the body, consciousness, and spirituality, laying the foundations for her artistic practice.

In 2020, during an artist residency in Dali, China, Selina began a daily drawing practice as a way of navigating healing and self-discovery. What began as a documentation of everyday life gradually evolved into an intimate dialogue with herself.

Much like psychoanalytic therapy, working intuitively and guided by process rather than predetermined outcomes, her sustained practice allows recurring themes and emotional patterns to emerge, revealing unconscious beliefs, inner conflicts, and protective mechanisms. Through this ongoing dialogue between intuition, material, and the unconscious, making becomes both a means of inquiry and a form of healing, allowing her to reconnect with her inner child and better understand herself.

Her work reflects an ongoing attempt to make sense of the human experience, exploring loneliness, tenderness, identity, belonging, desire, and emotional transformation. Through intimate and often playful forms, she seeks to create spaces where vulnerability can exist openly, and where people may feel seen, heard, and understood. She believes every individual carries a story worth listening to, and that art can become a bridge between inner worlds.

Her work has been exhibited in UK, Japan, and China.

In 2020, she founded CUCKOONESS, a creative collective focuses on Authenticity, Spontaneity, & Play. Discover more about it HERE.


张心怡 Selina（1996年出生） 是一位跨领域艺术家与建筑设计师，现往返于伦敦、香港与中国大陆开展创作。她的创作媒介涵盖绘画、写作、陶艺、雕塑、影像、声音及空间装置。她的创作根植于个人叙事，围绕记忆、创伤、疗愈、情感脆弱性与离散经验展开，并从自我精神分析、卡尔·荣格的心理学理论及道家思想中汲取灵感。

张心怡出生于深圳，在香港长大，2023年毕业于伦敦建筑联盟学院（Architectural Association School of Architecture），获得建筑学学士及硕士学位。建筑学背景塑造了她对空间、氛围、材料、社会及社会责任的敏感度，也影响着她对身体与环境之间关系的理解。

2019年，张心怡经历了一段严重的抑郁时期，并出现自杀意念。她因此暂时中断学业，前往泰国帕岸岛，投入瑜伽、冥想与灵性修习，并在此后成为一名相关领域的导师。这段经历深刻地改变了她对身体、意识与灵性的理解，也为她日后的艺术实践奠定了重要基础。

2020年，在中国大理参加艺术驻留期间，张心怡开始了每日绘画的实践，以此探索自我疗愈与自我认知。最初，这一实践只是对日常生活的记录，后来逐渐演变为一场与自我的深度对话。

她以直觉为引导，不预设创作结果，而是让作品在持续的实践过程中自然生长。这一过程与精神分析有着相似之处：随着创作不断深入，反复出现的主题与情感模式逐渐浮现，使潜意识中的信念、内在冲突与自我保护机制得以显现。在直觉、材料与潜意识持续交织的过程中，创作既成为一种探索自我的方式，也成为一种疗愈的途径，帮助她重新连接内在的孩童，并逐步加深对自我的理解。

Selina的创作持续探索如何理解人的存在与经验，关注孤独、温柔、身份认同、归属、欲望与情感转化等主题。她通过亲密而时常带有玩味与童趣的表达，尝试创造能够容纳脆弱的空间，让人们感受到被看见、被倾听与被理解。她相信，每个人都有一个值得被倾听的故事，而艺术能够成为连接不同内心世界的桥梁。

她的作品曾在英国、日本及中国展出。

2020 年，她创立了 CUCKOONESS，一个以真诚、即兴与玩心为核心的创意社群。点击这里了解更多。