Yudie Zhang (Ida) (b. 2001) works with photography and installation, constructing systems in which belief and emotion are staged through images, objects, and procedures. Moving between technology and desire, her practice draws from fictional constructs, scientific diagrams, folk tools, and pseudo-instructional formats.

Through rule-based structures and fabricated objects, Zhang explores how faith and affection persist within systems of representation and control—not as conviction, but as something enacted, deferred, and unresolved.

She is an MFA candidate in Photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.