BIOGRAPHY1961 Born in Shanghai, China
1984 BFA, Chinese Painting Department, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
1984-1988 Taught in Chinese Painting Department, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
1991 MFA, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, USA
Present Lives in San Francisco and Shanghai
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS2026
- The Shape of Seeing, Helvetika 1575, Zug, Switzerland
2025-2026
- Zheng Chongbin: Golden State, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
2025
- Unfolding, Video installation & painting, Altman Siegel Gallery, San Francisco, USA
2024
- Immeasurable Things, Video installation, Gallerie du Monde, Hong Kong
2022
- A 10,000 Years View, Site-specific installation, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
2021
- Levity and Gravity, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA
2020-Onoing
- I Look For the Sky, Light & space installation, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, USA
2019
- Zheng Chongbin: What the space wants to be, UOB Art Gallery /West Bund Art Centre, Shanghai, China
2018
- Liquid Space, Site-specific installation, Ryosoku-in Temple Kennin-ji, Kyoto, Japan
- Dimension and Flow, Shibunkaku, Kyoto, Japan
2017
- Zheng Chongbin: Walking Penumbra, Ink Studio, Beijing, China
- Zheng Chongbin: Clusters of Memory, Asia Society Texas Centre, Houston, USA
- Zheng Chongbin: Aysmmetric Emergence, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York, USA
2016
- The Pacific Project: Zheng Chongbin, Orange County Museum of Art, California, USA
- Structures, Sotheby’s S|2, Hong Kong
2015
- Zheng Chongbin: Wall of Skies, Ink Studio, Beijing, China
2014
- Reconstruction Zone, Microsoft China Centre One, Beijing, China
- The Matter Becomes Form: Zheng Chongbin and His Ink Media, Asia Art Centre, Taipei, Taiwan
2013
- Zheng Chongbin: Impulse, Matter, Form, Ink Studio, Beijing, China
2012
- Negotiating between Light and Ink, Asian Art Centre, Beijing, China
- Amorphous Geometry, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Singapore
- Ink Phenomenon: Objects of Perception, Flo Peters Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
- Black Wall / White Space, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
2011
- White Ink: Fresharp Artists' Series, Chinese Culture Centre of San Francisco, San Francisco, USA
- INKquiry: Zheng Chongbin, Ooi Botos, Hong Kong
- Obtrusive / Elusive: Recent Ink Work of Zheng Chongbin, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, USA
2010
- Zheng Chongbin: Emergent, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Singapore
2005
- Ink and Wash Paintings, Michael Martin Gallery, San Francisco, USA
1997
- East Meets East in the West, Limn Gallery, San Francisco, USA
1990
- Humanism in the Arts, Montgomery Gallery, San Francisco, USA
1989
- Introduction Show, Bruce Velick Gallery, San Francisco, USA
- New Stone Color Ink Paintings, Riskin-Sinow Gallery, San Francisco, USA
1988
- Chongbin Zheng, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026
- Asia Art Archive 2026 Annual Fundraiser Auction Preview Exhibition, H Queen's, Hong Kong
- Site-specific Contemporary Art Installations, A&J Art space, California, USA (ongoing)
- Glasstress 2026, Fondazione Berengo Art Space, Venice, Italy (until Nov 22)
2025-Ongoing
- With or Without Edge, Permanent light & space installation, Museum of East Asia Art Cologne, Germany
2025-2026
- 10th Beijing International Art Biennale: International Contemporary Ink Art Special Exhibition, Beijing Exhibition Centre, Beijing, China
- Metamorphosis: Chinese Imagination and Transformation, China Institute Gallery, New York, USA
2025
- 3rd Exhibition of Guangdong Museum of Art Annual Artist Nomination, Guangdong Museum of Art (Baietan), Guangzhou, China
2024
2023
- Ink Asia, Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong
- Time Gravity: Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu Art Museum, Chengdu, China
- Ink Alchemy: Beyond Tradition, Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong
- None Whatsoever, Fine Art Museum Houston, Houston, USA
- Summoning Memories: Art Beyond Chinese Traditions. Asia Society Texas, Houston, USA
2021
- L’exposition Les paysages de l’âme, Musée des arts asiatiques, Nice, France
- Ink Dreams: Selections from the Foundation INK Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
2019
- In Ink: Current Trends of Ink Art, Nan Hai Art, San Francisco, USA
- Arts of Asia, Brooklyn Museum. New York, USA
- Decending from the Above, New Chinese Galleries, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA
2018
- Chimeric Landscape displayed at Art on the MART: Chicago Public Art Project, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, USA
- Post-Brushwork Era: Chinese Landscapes, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou; Zhejiang Museum of Art, Hangzhou, China
- Ink Worlds: Contemporary Chinese Painting from the Collection of Akiko Yamazaki and Jerry Yang, Cantor Arts Centre, Stanford University, CA, USA
2017
- The Weight of Lightness, M+, Hong Kong
- Streams and Mountains without End: Landscape Traditions of China, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
- Chinese Contemporary Art: New Acquisitions for the Daimler Art Collection, Daimler Contemporary Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Boundless: On Going Chinese Ink Art, Art Museum of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China
2016
- Turbulence Exhibited in Chinese Art Galleries, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
- Why Not Ask Again, 11th Shanghai Biennial, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
- Shan Shui Within, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China
2015
- Personal Structures: Crossing Borders, Palazzo Bembo; Palazzo Mora, Venice, Italy
- From a Poem to the Sunset: Daimler Art Collection, Daimler Contemporary Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2014
- Rendering the Future: Chinese Contemporary Ink Painting Exhibition, Asia Art Centre,
Beijing, China
- A Fragment in the Course of Time: Landscape of Chinese Ink Art in 1980s, Himalayas Museum, Shanghai, China
2013
- Ink Painting in the United States, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China
- Personal Structures: Culture, Mind, Becoming, a collateral event of the 55th Venice Biennale, Palazzo Mora, Venice, Italy
- Beyond Tradition: Chinese Contemporary Ink, Christie's New York, USA
- The Moment for Ink, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, USA
2012
- Ink: The Art of China, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
- China's Imperial Modern: The Painter's Craft, University of Alberta Museums, Edmonton, Canada
2011
- Ink Limit, Dade Art Centre M50, Shanghai, China
- N Minutes Video Art Festival: Urban Skin, organized by March Art Production, Shanghai, China
- Qi Yun Sheng Dong, Contrasts Gallery, Shanghai, China
- XUAN, ETC, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China
2010
- Inaugural Exhibition of Zendai Contemporary Art Exhibition Hall, Shanghai, China
- Contemporary Ink Painting, Morlan Gallery, Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
- 3rd Taipei International Modern Ink Painting Biennial, Taipei, Taiwan
- Shanghai: Art of the City, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, USA
2009
- Point & Crosses: Exhibition of Contemporary Painting in China, Shanghai Art Centre, Shanghai, China
- Calligraffiti: Writing in Contemporary Chinese and Latino Art, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, USA
- IN SITU, River South Art Centre, Shanghai, China
- Contemporary Ink Painting: Shanghai New Ink Painting Art Exhibition, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
2008
- 21st Century Contemporary Ink, China National Art Institute, Beijing, China
- International Contemporary Ink Art Show, Busan Museum of Modern Art, Busan, South Korea
- Contemporary Brush and Ink: Nomination Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Figure Painting Artists, Mingyuan Art Centre, Shanghai, China
2007
- Reboot: 3rd Chengdu Biennial, Chengdu, China
2005
- Dialogue, Michael Martin Galleries, San Francisco, USA
2003
- Together, Michael Martin Galleries, Dallas, USA
- From Chinese Ink to Abstraction, Chinese Culture Centre of San Francisco, San Francisco, USA
1996
- Rice / Snails / Pigeons, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, USA
1995
- Perception / Reflection, Gallery Concord, Concord, USA
1994
- Asian / American American / Asian, Belcher Studios Gallery, San Francisco, USA
- Cultural Identities and Immigration: Changing Images of America in the 90's, Oliver Arts Centre, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, USA
1993
- Beyond the Written Word, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, USA
- Group Six Show, Belcher Studios Gallery, San Francisco, USA
1992
- Art from Hangzhou, China, Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg, Germany
- The Object Is Bound, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, USA
1991
- A Grave Silence, Ghia Gallery, San Francisco, USA
1988
- Chinese Painting Exhibition, Hochschule für Bildende Künste Hamburg, Germany
1987
- Contemporary Chinese Painting, Japan Gallery, Osaka, Japan
1985
- National Young Artists Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
SELECTED AWARDS & HONOURS2025 With or Without Edge, Permanent Light and Space Installation, Museum of East Asia Art Cologne, Germany
2023 Flying Stone. Permanent installation - Urban Art Project, Shanghai Library East, Shanghai, China
2021 Asia Game Changer West Awards, Asia Society Northern California, USA
2010-2011 Artist Excellence Exhibition Series Grant, San Francisco Chinese Cultural Foundation, CA, USA
2008-2010 Rising Forest (site-specific installation), Marina Bay Sands Integrated Resort, Singapore, Moshe Safdie and Associates, USA
1989-1991 First International Fellowship, San Francisco Art Institute, CA, USA
SELECTED COLLECTIONSBritish Museum, London, UK
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, USA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA
Orange County Museum of Art, California, USA
Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA
Museum of East Asia Art Cologne, Germany
Daimler Art Collection, Berlin, Germany
DSL Collection, Paris, France
Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
M+, Hong Kong
The MK Lau Collection, Hong Kong
