O Zhang - graduated from Central Academy of Art in Beijing and Royal College of Art in London and has lectured at Oxford University, New York University and Central Academy of Fine Art. She was awarded The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Artist Fellowship. Her work have been exhibited for more than 70 times in dozens of countries and is in the permanent collections of the Guggenheim Museum in New York and Santa Barbara Museum in California. Zhang was selected in Guangzhou as a young artist to greet the Queen of United Kingdom and selected by The Royal College of Art to greet Prince Philip.

Zhang is currently promoting her first Chinese book that documents her experiences as a Chinese art student living in London titled, The Moon Never Set on the Empire. It was  published by Shanghai Art and Literature Publishing House and will be presented in the Queens Museum of Art, as one of the attractions of the Multilingual Book Fair.

The book The Moon Never Set on the Empire  includes success stories of other people who Zhang interviews -- film director John Waters and artist/architect Maya Lin among others. The book uses the story of Zhang married to the descendant of the former president of United States as an ending. O Zhang mixes her thoughts on painting, photography and literature along with her personal life stories. This book is the first of its kind in China.

Review
Having spent some time with Andy Warhol, I'm certain that he would have loved to hang out with O - a young, gifted, attractive, driven artist, and great company. And Andy would have admired her successful embrace of different media - film, painting, photography and now, this book! I hope that you, the reader, will find O to be the engaging character that I have come to know as she shares her thoughts and adventures with you.
-Tim Hunt (The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts exclusive agent)

Taking herself as the subject, O Zhang has described an artist from mainland China endeavoring in the West. I am grateful for her work because finally someone has tried to seriously write down some instructive and interesting events in this specific period, which is worth writing as it is one part of the history of cultural exchange between the East and the West over a hundred years.
--Xu Bing (Artist and Vice President of Central Academy of Fine Art in Beijing)

Zhang O has a vision for her life. And she has the creativity, cleverness and courage it takes to live that vision ....this book really proves it! I am convinced she will serve as a role model to young Chinese women who aspire to a successful and rewarding life. --Dr. Uli Sigg (major collector for Chinese Contemporary Art)

Book Description
From her first few years in an adopted Tujia minority ethnic family in Hunan, to her education in Guangzhou and Beijing, and then in London, O Zhang's story of success is unique. This book follows her overseas experiences in London and New York, her struggles as a young female artist, and her emerging success in the international art world. Zhang serves as a good example to encourage Chinese youth to go out from China, to seek out and explore the outside world for themselves. Book review in English:
http://www.lifeofguangzhou.com/node_10/node_35/node_116/node_610/2009/01/19/123235396359055.shtml