Zheng Chongbin

BIOGRAPHY
1961 Born in Shanghai, China
1984 BFA, Chinese Painting Department, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
1984-88 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 EXHIBITIONS
2025-2026
Zheng Chongbin: Golden State, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA (Until 4 January, 2026)
2022
A 10,000 Years View, Site-specific Installation, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
2021
Levity and Gravity, Shin Gallery, New York, USA
2020
I Look For the Sky, Light and Space Installation, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, USA
2019
Zheng Chongbin: What the space wants to be, UOB Art Gallery /West Bund Art Center, Shanghai, China
Liquid Space Site-specific Installation, Ryosoku-in Temple Kennin-ji, Kyoto, Japan
Dimension and Flow, Shibunkaku, Kyoto, Japan
2017
Zheng Chongbin: Clusters of Memory, Asia Society Texas Centre, Houston, USA
2016
The Pacific Project: Zheng Chongbin, Orange County Museum of Art, California, USA
Structures, Sotheby’s S|2, Hong Kong
2014
Reconstruction Zone, Microsoft China Centre One, Beijing, China
2012
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
2008-10
Rising Forest, site-specific installation, Marina Bay Sands Integrated Resort, Singapore; Moshe Safdie and Associates, USA
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
2024
Themes and Variations, Alisan Fine Arts, New York, USA
2023
Ink Asia, Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong
Time Gravity: Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu Art Museum, Chengdu, China
Ink Alchemy: Beyond Tradition, Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong
Summoning Memories: Art Beyond Chinese Traditions. Asia Society Texas, Houson, USA
None Whatsoever, Fine Art Museum Houston, Houston, USA
2021
Ink Dreams: Selections from the Fondation 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
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 Centtr, 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
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, NewYork, USA
The Moment for Ink, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, USA
2012
China's Imperial Modern: The Painter's Craft, University of Alberta Museums, Edmonton, Canada
2011
N Minutes Video Art Festival: Urban Skin, organized by March Art Production, 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
2010 
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 Artist, Mingyuan Art Centre, Shanghai, China
2007
Reboot: 3rd Chengdu Biennial, Chengdu, China
1999
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
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
2021 Asia Game Changer West Awards, Asia Society Northern California
2010-11 Artist Excellence Exhibition Series Grant, San Francisco Chinese Cultural Foundation, CA, USA
1989-91 First International Fellowship, San Francisco Art Institute, CA, USA

SELECTED COLLECTIONS
British Museum, London, UK
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, USA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA
Orange County Museum of Art, California, USA
Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA
Daimler Art Collection, Berlin, Germany
DSL Collection, Paris, France
Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
M+ Museum, Hong Kong