ROH is pleased to present Free-Range Suns, a solo exhibition by Stella Zhong (b. 1993, China; lives and works in New York).
From her first exhibition, Zhong has made an impression in contemporary sculpture with uninhabited environments of scalar, perceptual and temporal distortion, moving unexpectedly between empty expanses and cosmic debris. Marking Zhong’s first solo exhibition at the gallery, Free-Range Suns offers exemplary works with continuing themes as well as experiments in new modes of production, including a site-specific pavilion and the first of Zhong’s of this scale.
The exhibition is accompanied by the gallery’s first publication and artist book, stella which includes a survey of past and current works, as well as newly commissioned essays and interviews by Sheau Yun Lim, CJ Salapare, and Martin Germann. It has been our pleasure to work with designer Kyla Arsadjaja on this publication, and more will be announced soon for pre-orders.
Free-Range Suns is open by invitation on 27 September and to the public from 1 October to 9 November 2025. The gallery will be closed on Monday, Tuesday, and Public Holidays. Follow the gallery’s Instagram account @rohprojects or reach out to [email protected] for further updates on operational hours and public program announcements.
Born 1993, Shenzhen, China
Lives and works in New York, New York, U.S.A.
Stella Zhong’s sculptural environments are vast and stark, registered by scarcely visible objects in quiet chaos. Making tactile the cosmic and infinitesimal at once, Zhong’s acute scale-shift magnifies solitude and connectivity, refracting contemporary experiences—simultaneity, alienation, existential humor and uncertainty—shared yet ultimately incurving.
Zhong’s objects flit between geometric forms and something alive, even edible, cute but covertly alarming. In its built-in opacity, the work withdraws, anchors, multiplies, cools. Each of Zhong’s hermetic worlds is calibrated to a radical condition—like a particle accelerator absent of friction—to observe the revolutionary potential of smallness in one, in another, to feel hope and momentum in inert states.
Zhong holds a BFA in Glass from Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from Yale University. She has exhibited her works in the US, China, South Korea, and around Europe. Her recent solo exhibitions include Inertia at The Intermission, Piraeus, Greece (2024); Stella Zhong at Chapter NY, New York, NY, U.S.A. (2023); (of an object) Synchronized Loss at Adams and Ollman, Portland, OR, U.S.A. (2022); Stella Zhong, Fig. 2 PLOT at Fanta-MLN, Milan, Italy (2022); comet without a tail at Chapter NY, New York, NY, U.S.A. (2021); and nigh at Peninsula Art Space, Brooklyn, New York, NY, U.S.A. (2016). She has been a part of various major group exhibitions, including Dreamscreen/dreamscream at Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea (2024); off-worlds at YveYANG Gallery, New York, NY, U.S.A. (2023); The Hearing Trumpet Part 2 at Galerie Marguo, Paris, France (2022); 52 Artists: Revisiting a Feminist Milestone at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT, U.S.A. (2022); InPractice: Literally means collapse at SculptureCenter, New York, NY, U.S.A. (2022); A Couple of: The Dual-mechanism of the New Generation of Asian Artists at Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China (2022); This Time We Know Each Other at Green Hall Gallery, Yale University, New Heaven, CT, U.S.A. (2020); and Here and There at 205 Hudson Gallery, Hunter College, New York, NY, U.S.A. (2018).