Anaïs Zhang—known as Anais Z. in the digital realm—is a Chinese-born, French artist with a Master’s in Oil Painting from the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts.

Now based in Biarritz on the shores of the Basque Country, her work draws from the landscapes and faces she has encountered across continents—from the snow-capped mountains of Tibet to the narrow streets of Macau and the grasslands of the American Midwest.

In La Belle Époque, she breathes color and life into forgotten moments captured by her great-grandfather-in-law, a pioneering French photographer of the early 1900s.

Most recently, Anaïs has dedicated herself to Heroji—a multidisciplinary project where she summons twelve mythic guardians of nature, reviving ancestral stories through the lens of contemporary digital art.

Her work is a dialogue between past and future, East and West, memory and imagination—and has been exhibited in galleries across Europe and Asia.

Anais Studio