Connie Zheng is a Chinese-born artist, writer, and filmmaker[1] based in Oakland, California. Her projects include large-scale maps, seed exchanges, seed-making workshops, and experimental films about seeds.[2] Themes in Zheng's work include navigating diasporic memory, ecological transformation, and relationships between human and more-than-human worlds.[3]
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| Alma mater | Brown University University of California, Berkeley University of California, Santa Cruz |
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Education
editZheng received two BAs, Economics and English, from Brown University, Providence, RI and an MFA in Art Practice from the University of California, Berkeley. She is currently a PhD student in Visual Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.[2]
Career
editExhibitions
editZheng's work has been exhibited at the Asian Art Museum,[4] the Contemporary Jewish Museum,[5][6] SOMArts Gallery,[3] and Thacher Gallery at the University of San Francisco in San Francisco, CA; Singapore Art Week; Framer Framed, Amsterdam, the Netherlands,[7] and the IMPAKT Festival in the Netherlands,[8] among others.
Most recently, Zheng 2023 three piece work entitled Guest Passage has been featured Bay Area Now 9 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.[9]
Awards
editZheng has received fellowships and residencies from the Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA;[10] the Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Upperville, VA,[11] and the Minnesota Street Project Foundation, San Francisco, CA,[12][13] among others.
Zheng was the inaugural recipient of the Joint Space Award,[14][15] awarded by The Space Program San Francisco[16] and the Minnesota Street Project Foundation.
Publications
editZheng's work has been published in Hyperallergic,[17] KQED Arts,[18] and MUBI Notebook,[19] among others.
Zheng wrote a chapter for the Routledge Companion to Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Climate Change[20] published in 2021. She has also contributed to SFMOMA's Open Space blog.[21]
References
edit- ^ "Connie Zheng". FilmFreeway. Archived from the original on 26 July 2022. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
- ^ a b "Connie Zheng: How to Talk to Seeds". Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. 2020. Archived from the original on 26 July 2022. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
- ^ a b "Connie Zheng". Grow Our Souls Exhibition. Archived from the original on 26 July 2022. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
- ^ "Exhibitions: After Hope: Videos of Resistance". Asian Art Museum. 2021. Archived from the original on 3 October 2023. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
- ^ "Tikkun: For the Cosmos, the Community, and Ourselves". Contemporary Jewish Museum. 2022. Archived from the original on 10 March 2024. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
- ^ "Connie Zheng and Rachelle Reichert on Art, Environment, and Tikkun". Contemporary Jewish Museum. 19 April 2022. Archived from the original on 26 July 2022. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
- ^ "Connie Zheng". Framer Framed. Archived from the original on 16 November 2023. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
- ^ "Announcements - IMPAKT Festival 2020 Zero Footprint". Impakt Festival. 11 October 2020. Archived from the original on 9 June 2023. Retrieved 26 July 2022 – via e-flux.
- ^ "Looking Outward: Bay Area Now 9 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts". Variable West. 2023-11-28. Retrieved 2024-04-07.
- ^ "Connie Zheng". Headlands Center for the Arts. Archived from the original on 7 June 2023. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
- ^ "Connie Zheng - Artist in Residence, 2021". Oak Spring Garden Foundation. Archived from the original on 26 July 2022. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
- ^ "Connie Zheng: new yamfish seed exchange (nyse)". Minnesota Street Project. 2021. Archived from the original on 18 July 2021. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
- ^ "Connie Zheng: new yamfish seed exchange (nyse)". Minnesota Street Project Adjacent. Minnesota Street Project & The Space Program San Francisco. Archived from the original on 29 July 2022. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
- ^ "Joint Space Award: Exhibition: new yamfish seed exchange (nyse)". Minnesota Street Project Foundation. Archived from the original on 20 November 2022. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
- ^ "Projects - The Space Program San Francisco - Joint Space Award". The Space Program San Francisco. Archived from the original on 24 September 2022. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
- ^ "The Space Program San Francisco - A Bay Area Artist Residency". The Space Program San Francisco - A Bay Area Artist Residency. Retrieved 2022-07-26.
- ^ Wilson, Emily (22 February 2021). "'Looking for Hope and Clinging to Hope': Short Films for Our Times". Hyperallergic. Archived from the original on 11 December 2023. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
- ^ Hotchkiss, Sarah (20 April 2021). "At Asian Art Museum, 'After Hope' Comes Action (and an Eclectic Mix of Video Art)". KQED. Archived from the original on 4 June 2023. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
- ^ Brinkhof, Tim (8 September 2021). "Turning Art Into Activism with 'After Hope'". MUBI. Archived from the original on 26 July 2022. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
- ^ Zheng, Connie (2021). "The Perpetual Present, Past, and Future: Slow Violence and Chinese Frameworks of In/Visibility and Time in Zhao Liang's Behemoth". In Demos, T. J.; Scott, Emily Eliza; Banerjee, Subhankar (eds.). The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Climate Change. New York: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780429321108. ISBN 9780367221102. OCLC 1192304419.
- ^ Zheng, Connie (18 June 2019). "Floor 7: Al's Park". Open Space. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Archived from the original on 8 December 2023. Retrieved 26 July 2022.