Born in Shanghai, China.
Presently living in California, U.S.A. and Shanghai, China.
EDUCATION
1991
1984
AWARDS
2008-2010
1989/91
TEACHING
1984/88
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011
2010
2005
1997
1990
1989
1988
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2003
2002
1999
1996
1995
1994
1993
1992
1987
1985
BIBLIOGRAPHY
M. F. A. San Francisco Art Institute
B. F. A. Chinese Painting Department, Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts
(now China Academy of Fine arts), Hangzhou, China
Rising Forest site-specific installation
Marina Bay Sands integrated resort, Singapore. Moshe Safdie Associates
First International Fellowship, San Francisco Art Institute
Chinese Painting Department, Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts
(now China Academy of Fine arts), Hangzhou, China
Flo Peter Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai
White Ink Fresharp, Chinese Culture Foundation, San Francisco
INKquiry Ooi Botos Gallery, Hong Kong
Obtrusive/elusive Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Emergent Valentine Willie Fine Arts, Singapore
Michael Martin Gallery, San Francisco
East Meets East in the West (Brush Painting), Limn Gallery, San Francisco
Humanism in The Art (Painting and Mixed Media Installations), Montgomery Gallery, San Francisco
Introduction Show, Bruce Velick Gallery, San Francisco
New Stone Color Ink Paintings Riskin - Sinow Gallery, San Francisco
Chongbin Zheng Paintings, Mixed Media Installation, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
Qi Yun sheng Dong Contrast Gallery, Shanghai
Inauguration of the exhibition of Zendai Contemporary Art Exhibition Hall, Shanghai, China
Contemporary Ink Painting, Morlan Gallery, Transylvania University, Lexington, KY
Ink Code, Thire, Taipei 2010 Contemporary Ink Painting Biennial, Taiwan
Shanghai, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
Point & Crosses - Shanghai 2010 Art Center, Shanghai
IN SITU - River South Art Center, Shanghai, China
Calligraffiti - Asian Pacific Art Museum, Pasadena
水墨当下 2009 Shanghai contemporary ink Painting, Doland Museum ,Shanghai
International contemporary Ink art show, Pusan Museum of Modern Art, South Korea
破局 - Shanghai contemporary ink salon show, Sunbow Gallery,Mo Ganshan Rd. Shanghai
21st Century Contemporary Ink - China National Art Institute, Beijing
Contemporary Ink, Ming Yuan Art Center, Shanghai
The Third Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu, China
"Together" Michael Martin Galleries, Dallas
Catalogue Show (San Francisco international Art Expo 2002)
Michael Martin Galleries, San Francisco
From Chinese ink to Abstraction, Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco
Rice/Snails/Pigeons (Drawings and mixed media installation)
Perception/Reflection (Asian American Identity), Gallery Concord, Concord
Asian/American American/Asian, Mixed Media Installation, 69 Belcher Studio Gallery, San Francisco
Cultural Identities and Immigration: Changing of America in the 90's, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oliver Art Center, Oakland
Beyond the Written Word, Mixed Media Installation, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose
Group Six Show, Mixed Media Installation, 69 Belcher Studio Gallery, San Francisco
The Object Is Bound (The Book As Metaphor), Mixed Media, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco
Art From Hangzhou, China, (Paintings),
Hochschuel Fur Bildende Kunst, Hamburg, Saarbrucken, Germany
Contemporary Chinese Painting, Japan Gallery, Osaka, Japan
China Young Artists Exhibition, National Art Museum, Beijing
"White Ink" Essay by Abby Chen, Collette Chattopadhyay , Shen Kuiyi, Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco, 2011
Claypool, Lisa. "Where is Shanghai," Orientations, January/February 2010
Chattopadhyay, Collette. "Calligraffitti: 'Writing' in Contemporary Chinese and Chicano Art," Catalogue for exhibition at Pacific Asian Museum, Pasadena, CA, Septemer 17 2009 - January 17, 2010
Hanru, Hou. "Connecting Real and Fake: Zheng Chongbin's New Work," Art Guide, September 8, 2010
Ewart, Nancy. "The Dimension of Ink, #1 by Zheng Chongbin (at the Asian)," San Francisco Examiner, February 28, 2010
Erickson, Britta. "Innovations in Space: Ink Paintings by Zheng Chongbin," National Arts, August 2009
National Art / China "Rebuild the language of Asian Core Culture" /Feature/Liao Liao /P.043-051. August 2009
Art Critic No.1 /China " On Sociological Transformation in Ink and Wash Paintings" /Chen Xiao Xing/August, 2008
National Art Guide /China" Innovations in Space. P.35-48. March, 2008 No.133
Art In America " Committed to Ink" Report from Chengdu Biennial/Richard Vine/P.66-69 /January 2008
Artweek, " from cover to Cover," May 7th 1992
San Francisco Examiner (Art Section), " Conceptual Art by the Book." April 24, 1992
Artweek, " Counter Attacks," December 12, 1991
San Francisco Chronicle, "Abstract Meeting of East and West," July 28, 1989
Lang Shaojun. " In Search of An Abstract Vocabulary: On Zheng Chongbin's Ink Paintings," China Fine Arts Journal, vol.21,May 23, 1988
Fine Arts In China " Types of Facial Makeup" and " Another State of Man" (published paintings), Beijing, China, May 1988
Fine Arts in China, Bird Series (published paintings), May 1987; Artists' Journal, " Thoughts Generated by Painting, An Essay on his work by Chongbin Zheng," Changsha, China, September 1986
New Art, "Kinship" and " Rangeland" (published paintings), Zhejiang, China, July 1985
Do-Yun, Bird Series (published paintings), Shanghai, China, 1987