Print/Nets/Hair/Zines
Print
100 Licenses to Drive in Michigan
4 color riso print, edition of 100 fully customisable old design Michigan Driver's Licenses
printed in Detroit, MI
mailed upon request:
to Michigan residents: $1
to non-Michigan residents: $5
- front
- back
Print/Zines
Passports
Several iterations of passport print projects
Printed in Pittsburgh, PA
- CMYK riso printed blank US passports, edition of __,2024
- set of US/China passports, riso on laser, edition of 5, 2023
Print
Blank Social Security Card
3 color intaglio, edition of 5, printed on mulberry paper
printed in Pittsburgh, PA
- detail
- complete edition
Print/Zines
U$D Wallet Books
Single color linocuts of all US bills on rice paper, accordian bound on a two-layer pvc cover
printed in Pittsburgh, PA
constructed in Ann Arbor, MI
- expanded
- cover
Print/Nets/Zines
two-body sketches
A summer of two-body net interaction sketches, lino printed and accordian bound
edition of 10
printed in Ann Arbor, MI
- expanded
- pages
Print/Nets
small red nets
Red net on tracing paper
uneditioned, 3.5” x 2”
printed in Pittsburgh, PA
- many
- many
Nets/Hair
Single Strand Human Hair Net Sampler
Net sampler utilizing single strands of red (processed) and black hair taken from the artist
approx. 5” x 7”
- net mounted on cork
- detail
- detail
Hair
Hair Grass
Blades of grass made from the artist’s hair
[ongoing project]
- 3 blades
- 26 blades
Nets
3 Meshes
A set of common 3d shapes. In a digital space, 3d primatives such as cubes, cylinders, and cones form the basis of all possible objects
1mx1mx1m; 1mx1mx1m; 1mx1mx1m
Photos by Séamus Gallagher
- all
- cone
- cylinder
- cube
Print/Nets/Hair/Zines
Zines (misc.)
Compendium of select zines made between 2023 and 2025
- Eight Nets for your consideration - 2 color riso on translucent paper 2024
- Braided Three Strand Hair Books - 1”x1” 2023
- Stress Body Bookmark Zine - 5 color screenprint 2023
- softly semi-tessellated animal zine - laser on xuan paper 2025
- Sliced Body Zine - screenprint 2023
Print/Hair
Prints (misc.)
Compendium of prints between 2022-2025
- Magnificent Hinterland - 2 color Litho 2025
- Rat Kiss - Lino 2024
- Capillaries - screenprint 2021
- untitled - monoprint 2024
- untitled - monoprint 2024
- spill - intaglio 2021
- Kidney Failuer - litho 2021
*improved documentation is in progress...
about
about
Shelly 张 lives and works in Michigan. Their print and book work primarily focuses on US personal identification documents; their sculptural work, nets and hair.
Documents: Thematically, I’m interested in exploring the individual as they are fetishized by state-issued documents. To this end, I'm also interested in the material intersection between artistic printmaking and document security.
Nets: Structurally, I’m drawn to the capability of a net to be both full of shape and formless as it responds to ever-changing states of tension.
Hair: I have an ongoing commitment to utilise my own hair materially in sculptural work.
curriculum vitae
Exhibitions:
2025 Small Works Show, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn NY (group)
2025 Aesthetics of Power, ARC Gallery, Chicago IL (group)
2025 Stories in Stitches, Northville Art House, Northville MI (group)
2024 Resonance, Miller ICA, Pittsburgh PA (group, senior show)
2022 Redesigning the Body, MuseumLab, Pittsburgh PA (collaborative)
Fairs / Markets:
2025 Ann Arbor Distric Library Printmaking Festival
2025 Detroit Art Book Fair
2025 Pittsburgh Art Book Fair (with Jessie Chen)
2024 Pittsburgh Art Book Fair (with CMU College of Fine Art)
2024 CMU Queer Art Market
2024 CMU CFA Global Arts Ball
2023 Pittsburgh Art Book Fair (with Sarah Cho)
Experience:
2026- Open Studio Assistant, Book Arts Detroit
2024-2025 Print Studio Assistant, Carnegie Mellon University School of Art
Education:
2024 BFA from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA
Instagram: @zsh_lly
contact: zshellyart@gmail.com
contact: zshellyart@gmail.com