Zheng Chongbin 鄭重賓 Shanghai, China, b. 1961

Zheng Chongbin’s visual philosophy form ties between phenomenology and New Materialism. Zheng’s hybrid practice of painting, video and light space installation investigate the spectrum of perception through the experience of self and being.

Born in 1961 in Shanghai, Zheng Chongbin was educated as a classical Chinese figurative painter at the elite China Academy of Art in Hangzhou. In 1989, Zheng received a fellowship from the San Francisco Art Institute to study installation and conceptual art. A resident of the SF Bay Area for over three decades, Zheng is inspired by the California light and space movement, and the region’s rich ecologies. Maintaining his commitment to painting, Zheng has extended his conceptual explorations into the media of installation and video. Zheng explores processes of nature — from molecular and cellular to topographical and climatic, in the scale of human perception through microscopic and macroscopic imagery, unfolding these processes spatially and temporally. Zheng’s work can be found in the collections, among others, of the British Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, Chicago Art Institute, and M+ Museum.