Based in New York and Shanghai, Yuechen Guan, known professionally as Zona, has had extensive experience in a wide range of artistic disciplines. Her current practice focuses on photography, work that has received numerous awards, but she has also garnered prizes for her painting, acting, dance, and musical performance. She has worked as a graphic designer as well, also teaching the subject in her native China. The recent recipient of a Master’s in Digital Photography from New York’s prestigious School of Visual Arts, Zona has exhibited her work both in the U.S. and abroad. Her most recent series of photographs, Juxtapose, explores how Chinese classical dance has been influenced by global and Western culture through a series of images portraying both traditional and modern performance styles. These photographs was displayed in March at Time Arts Gallery in New York City.