Zhen SHI is a Paris-based publisher, the founder and director of La Maison de Z, a French independent publishing house and cultural platform connecting visual art, publishing, and the art economy.

Working across photography, text, and experimental publishing, she approaches the book as both a research method and an artistic medium. Her practice examines how images are transformed, reconstructed, and perceived anew in book form, with a particular interest in memory and reality, archives and fiction, the private and the public, and individual experience and collective memory.

Through La Maison de Z, she develops publications, exhibitions, and public conversations around the art economy, bringing editorial thinking, material experimentation, and long-term collaboration into dialogue while exploring how cultural content can continue to create value today.