Ben Zhu

Ben Zhu is an illustrator, who after working in the video game industry, founded Nucleus (aka Gallery Nucleus) in 2004, an art gallery and bookshop devoted to illustration, animation, and narrative art, with locations in Los Angeles and Portland. Born in Beijing, he moved to the United States at age seven and now lives in Southern California with his wife, daughter, two ducks and an extremely old chow chow.