Zora Pang

About the work

The TAKEAWAY exhibition takes place at Canberra Contemporary from 12 September-24 October 2026 and features works by Marley Dawson, Keg de Souza, Gianna Christella Hayes, Gillian Kayrooz, Zora Pang, Janhavi Salvi, and James Tylor. Presented as part of Canberra Art Biennial 2026, the show is accompanied by a public program at multiple venues across Canberra themed around gastropoetics, food security, and diaspora eating imaginaries. Included in the show is a pop-up reading area by Magenta House featuring publications and ephemera that serve as ‘side-dishes’ to the themes explored by the participants of this project. Ultimately, TAKEAWAY takes a regenerative approach into why and how we eat, while digesting fraught histories and ecologies of land, water and labour.

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About the artist

Zora Pang is an artist and organiser, grew up in a coastal Chinese city Shenzhen with the context of rapid urbanisation. Her heritage is, on her father’s side, one of making new places home and on her mother’s Teochew side, food, Chinese medicine and spirituality – all leading her to see everything as connected and ever-changing. Her creative practice is driven by the desire to connect through differences, always looking for the space to hold curiosity and honesty. She is currently interested in how trust can grow through time over food and conversations, and how embodied experience can inspire conflict transformation in collective work. Zora’s work has been shown in kitchens, parks, bedrooms, cafes, a canteen, a train, a storage warehouse, and meeting rooms. She has presented works with You Are Here Canberra (ACT), Tuggeranong Arts Centre (ACT), Tributary Projects (ACT), Live Art Lab A+G Arts Centres (ACT), Shenzhen\Hongkong Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (UABB)(China).