Since the age of eight, Zhi Xuan learned drawing at weekends to insist her dream of art. In 2012, Zhi Xuan Zhang met a Chinese actor Xu Zheng's mother in the street of Shanghai, which led Zhi Xuan Zhang to the road of studying abroad. In 2013, Zhang left Shanghai to Shenzhen for one year alone to apply for studying in New York.
In 2016, Zhi Xuan Zhang took a leaving of absence to concentrate on the Shikumen project and questioned the meaning of art school. She asked the preservation expert, Ruan Yisan, about Shikumen issue and even his effort was limited. Her feet did MRI after shooting because of walking too much. In 2017 summer, Korean video art master Nam June Paik's relative talked to her at the Rubin Museum of Art. The female comedian Esther Goodhart told her to insist on her own voice. Unfortunately, she passed away in 2018 November.
After being taught by a phd professor and writer, Lynn Gamwell, who publishes books with many self-taught experience, and the chair of Whitney and currently the chair of MFA Art Practice, David Ross, Zhi Xuan dropped from SVA in 2018 Spring with many MFA classes experience. Her neck, waist, joints, feet and eyes all had problem. Her work was presented as a group show in New York and a solo show in Washington. She suffered from depression after being misunderstood as depression. In October 2018, she met Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke in the street unexpectedly. He appreciated her ideas of avant-garde work and let her contact filmmakers in Shanghai. She focuses on film theory as well, which was appreciated by three New York critics and could be books in the future, including Dennis Lim, the director of programming at Film at Lincoln Center.
She tried to contact an actress from old Shanghainese cinema, Qin Yi , whose son was the student of her drawing teacher in childhood. This experience let her have more missions for the cinema. Her script was similar to Ang Lee’s talk in 2019 and invented some new 3D film techniques. Fashion photographer Zhang Yuanyi and Shen Mengchen might act for her project. Taiwanese singer Faye previously from band F.I.R. and singer Crowd Lu might collaborate for the film music. Artist Zhang Dali has agreed to use his citation as a line of the script.
Ed Lachman and Chua Lam appreciated her work and thought she could be the person for continuing the history of Shanghainese cinema. In the history, Hou Hsiao-hsien tried to make the Flowers of Shanghai in Shikumen, but it was finally shot in Taiwan since the demolition program at that time. Zhi Xuan Zhang is also focusing on the preservation and restoration projects. Currently, Sony and Disney are supporting her project.
出生於1995年，自從8歲，之軒在週末學習畫畫堅持著藝術的夢想。2012年，張之軒在上海街頭遇到演員徐崢的母親，引導張之軒出國留學。在2013年，張之軒離家出走到深圳一年為了到紐約學習。
2016年，張之軒休學一年專注於拍攝石庫門攝影作品。她詢問過保護專家阮儀三關於石庫門的問題，但是即使他的力量都很薄弱。她的腳做過核磁共振因拍攝期間走路過多。2017年夏季，她偶然遇見了韓國視頻藝術之父白南準的親戚，那位女喜劇演員告訴她堅持自己內心的聲音。喜劇演員也試著邀請到她的家，或電話她的腳問題和童年，但是不幸在2018年去世。
她經過博士教授以及作家Lynn Gamwell的課程學習，受影響其自學並且出書的能力，以及前惠特尼館長，現MFA Art Practice的David Ross的藝術理念，2018年，她被本科教授和系主任傷害，從學校退學，期間學過不少研究生課程。她的腰，手指關節，膝關節以及眼睛都有過問題。她的作品在紐約舉辦群展，華盛頓州舉辦個展。在承受很大的抑鬱症誤解之後，之軒真的有了抑鬱症。在2018年十月，她在街頭偶然遇見中國導演賈樟柯。他喜歡她的實驗片想法，並建議她聯繫上海的導演。她的理論寫作，被三位紐約學者欣賞，並肯定未來出書，包括林肯中心的主管Dennis Lim。
目前她的頸椎有嚴重問題並且她的腳和胃部也許需要手術治療。五月她試著聯繫老上海電影演員，秦怡，曾經她的兒子也是张之轩小時候畫畫老師的學生，這個經歷讓她更加對於影壇有了使命感.劇本發現與李安導演2019年底的講座內容類似，也發明了更多技術手法。商業攝影師章元一和沈夢辰也許會合作她的作品。台灣歌手詹雯婷，飛兒樂團曾經主唱，盧廣仲也許會作電影音樂。藝術家張大力同意使用他的引言作為劇本的台詞。
她的胃部在十月份急診，差一點做手術。Ed Lachman 和蔡瀾欣賞她的作品，並且認為她可以成為那個延續上海電影歷史斷層的人。侯孝賢導演曾經在台灣試著取景上海文藝電影《海上花》，但是因為當時的拆遷石庫門事實選擇在台灣桃園進行，暫時索尼和迪士尼公司正在合作電影。