Zheng Chongbin 郑重宾
b. 1961 in Shanghai, lives and works in San Francisco and Shanghai
Throughout his career of three decades, Zheng Chongbin (b. 1961, Shanghai) has held the classical Chinese ink tradition and Western pictorial abstraction in productive mutual tension. Systematically exploring and deconstructing their conventions and constituents—figure, texture, space, geometry, gesture, materiality—he has developed a distinctive body of work that makes the vitality of matter directly perceptible. Central to Zheng’s art is the notion of the world as always in flux, consisting of flows of matter and energy that repeatedly cohered and dissipated. Inherent in pre-modern Chinese and especially Daoist thought, this worldview enables contemporary inquiries into complex systems like climate and social behavior, artificial intelligence, and quantum physics. Through the interactions of ink, acrylic, water, and paper, Zheng’s paintings generate and record the processes that underlie the emergence of order (including organic life and human consciousness) and its inevitable dissipation. His paintings thus resemble natural structures ranging from neurons, blood vessels, and tree branches to mountains, rivers, and coastlines, but by instantiating their formation rather than by objective depiction.
Maintaining his commitment to painting, Zheng Chongbin has extended his conceptual explorations into the media of installation and video. His landmark light-and-space installation Wall of Skies (2015) consists of a complex folded structure fully enclosed by a tilted ceiling and slanted walls, creating a delicate interplay of nonparallel lines and planes. Resolving neither into painting, nor sculpture, nor pure light and space, it insists on its material presence even as its objecthood is dissolved in a spatial experience. In his video installations, Zheng represents processes of nature—from molecular and cellular to topographical and climatic—in the scale of human perception through microscopic and macroscopic imagery and accompanying soundscapes, unfolding these processes spatially and temporally.
Zheng Chongbin was educated as a classical Chinese figurative painter at the elite China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, where he taught for four years after graduation in 1984. Acclaimed as one of China’s preeminent young experimental ink painters in the 1980's, he mounted his first solo exhibition at the Shanghai Museum of Art in 1988. In 1989, he received a fellowship from the San Francisco Art Institute to study installation, performance, and conceptual art, receiving his MFA in 1991. A resident of the San Francisco Bay Area for over three decades, Zheng is inspired by the region's distinctive atmospheric and environmental effects and rich ecologies, as well as by the California light and space movement.
In recent years, Zheng Chongbin has been recognized by a growing number international curators and institutions. In 2015, Zero Movement scholar Renate Wiehager exhibited Zheng’s White Reflection (2012) with a work by senior German artist Max Uhlig at Daimler Contemporary in Berlin. Zheng debuted his environmental video installation, Chimeric Landscape (2015), at the European Cultural Centre’s exhibition Personal Structures during the 2015 Venice Biennale. M+, under the direction of Lars Nittve, former founding Director of the Tate Modern, acquired eight works that document the development of Zheng’s practice since the 1980’s. In November 2015, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art began to feature the recently-acquired Turbulence (2013) in a two-artist presentation of Zheng and Roy Lichtenstein. In March 2016, the Metropolitan Museum of Art finalized its acquisition of Unfolding Landscape (2015) and the Brooklyn Museum its acquisition of Skylines (2014), both major abstract paintings by the artist. For Wall of Skies, Zheng was selected one of eleven highlighted artists by curators Raqs Media Collective at the 2016 Shanghai Biennale Why Not Ask Again?
Zheng’s work can be found in the collections, among others, of the British Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, the Orange County Museum of Art in California, M+ in Hong Kong, the Daimler Art Collection in Stuttgart, Germany, the DSL Collection in France, and the Marina Bay Sands in Singapore. Zheng is the subject of a documentary film, The Enduring Passion of Ink, and an in-depth monograph Zheng Chongbin: Impulse, Matter, Form, edited by Britta Erickson and distributed by D.A.P. in the United States.
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Untitled No. 1 无题1号, 2018
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Untitled No. 2 无题2号, 2018
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Untitled No. 3 无题3号, 2018
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Untitled No. 4 无题4号, 2018
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Untitled No. 5 无题5号, 2018
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Untitled No. 6 无题6号, 2018
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Cluster No. 2 合体2号, 2017
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Ripple Settlement 波动后的沉淀, 2017
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Wall of Skies 层层天墙, 2015
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Chimeric Landscape 运行中的异化之景, 2015
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Branches are Roots in the Sky 枝是天上根, 2016
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The Spinning of the Segments 震动的碎片, 2017
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Eroded Strata 风化的断层, 2017
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Visible Lines in Spectrum 可视的光线谱, 2017
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Descending from the above 从上往下, 2016
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Unfolding Landscape 拓展地带, 2015
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Undulation of the Fracture 起伏的裂痕, 2017
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Terrain 地势, 2014
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Eroded Strata 风化的石层, 2015
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Multiple Slanted Layers 多斜层, 2015
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Double Wall 双墙, 2015
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Negative Exponents 负指数, 2017
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Distressed Geometry / Four Plates 被消耗掉的几何状/四块, 2014
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Another State of Man No. 26 人的另一种状态26号, 1988
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Another State of Man No. 20 人的另一种状态20号, 1988
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Another State of Man No. 14 人的另一种状态14 号, 1987
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Blot No. 5 墨迹 5号, 2000
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Blot No. 7 墨迹7号, 1999
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Stained No. 5 墨迹5号, 2009
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Ink Color Series No.3 墨彩系列3号, 1987
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Ink Color Series No.18 墨彩系列18号, 1988
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Ink Color Series No.4 墨彩系列4号, 1987
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Born in Shanghai, China. Presently lives in San Francisco and Shanghai. |
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EDUCATION |
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1991 |
MFA San Francisco Art Institute, U.S.A. |
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1984
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BFA Chinese Painting Department, Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now China Academy of Art), Hangzhou, China |
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Teaching EXPERIENCE |
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1984-88 |
Taught in the Chinese Painting Department, Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou, China |
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AWARDS & HONORS |
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2010-11
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Artist Excellence Exhibition Series Grant, San Francisco Chinese Cultural Foundation, CA, U.S.A. |
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2008-10
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Rising Forest (site-specific installation, Marina Bay Sands Integrated Resort, Singapore, Moshe Safdie and Associates, U.S.A. |
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1989-91 |
First International Fellowship, San Francisco Art Institute, CA, U.S.A. |
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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS |
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2018 |
Zheng Chongbin: Walking Penumbra, Ink Studio, Beijing, China |
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2017 |
Zheng Chongbin:Clusters of Memory, Asia Society Texas Center, Houston, U.S.A. |
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Zheng Chongbin:Asymmetric Emergence, Sundaram Tagore Gallery,New York, U.S.A. |
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2016
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The Pacific Project: Zheng Chongbin, Orange County Museum of Art, California, U.S.A. Structures, Sotheby’s S|2, Hongkong S.A.R, China |
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2015 |
Zheng Chongbin: Wall of Skies, Ink Studio, Beijing, China |
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2014
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Reconstruction Zone, Microsoft China Center One, Beijing, China The Matter Becomes Form: Zheng Chongbin and His Ink Media, Asia Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan |
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2013 |
Zheng Chongbin: Impulse, Matter, Form, Ink Studio, Beijing, China |
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2012
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Negotiating between Light and Ink, Asian Art Center, Beijing, China Amorphous Geometry, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Singapore Ink Phenomenon: Objects of Perception, Flo Peters Gallery, Hamburg, Germany |
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Black Wall / White Space, Hong Kong Arts Center, Hong Kong S.A.R., China |
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2011
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White Ink: Fresharp Artists' Series, Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco, CA, U.S.A. INKquiry: Zheng Chongbin, Ooi Botos, Hong Kong S.A.R., China Obtrusive / Elusive: Recent Ink Work of Zheng Chongbin, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, U.S.A. |
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2010 |
ZHENG CHONGBIN: Emergent, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Singapore |
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2005 |
Ink and Wash Paintings, Michael Martin Gallery, San Francisco, U.S.A. |
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1997 |
East Meets East in the West, Limn Gallery, San Francisco, U.S.A. |
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1990 |
Humanism in the Arts, Montgomery Gallery, San Francisco, U.S.A. |
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1989
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Introduction Show, Bruce Velick Gallery, San Francisco, U.S.A. New Stone Color Ink Paintings, Riskin-Sinow Gallery, San Francisco, U.S.A. |
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1988 |
Chongbin Zheng, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China |
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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS |
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2018 |
Chimeric Landscape displayed at Art on theMART (Chicago's city public art project), Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL, U.S.A. |
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Post-Brushwork Era: Chinese Landscapes, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China; Zhejiang Museum of Art, Hangzhou, China |
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Ink Worlds: Contemporary Chinese Painting from the Collection of Akiko Yamazaki and Jerry Yang, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, CA, U.S.A. |
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Ink Painting as a Cultural Gesture, Cre8tive Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, China |
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2017 |
The Weight of Lightness, M+ Museum, Hong Kong S.A.R., China |
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Streams and Mountains without End: Landscape Traditions of China, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, U.S.A. Chinese Contemporary Art: New Acquisitions for the Daimler Art Collection, Daimler Art Collection, Stuttgart-Möhringen, Germany Boundless: On Going Chinese Ink Art, Art Museum of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China |
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2016
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Turbulence exhibited in Chinese art galleries, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles, U.S.A. |
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Why Not Ask Again, 11th Shanghai Biennale, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China Shan Shui Within, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China |
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2015
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Personal Structures: Crossing Borders, European Cultural Centre/Palazzo Bembo and Palazzo Mora, Venice, Italy From a Poem to the Sunset:Daimler Art Collection, Daimler Contemporary Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
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2014
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Rendering the Future: Chinese Contemporary Ink Painting Exhibition, Asia Art Center, Beijing, China A Fragment in the Course of Time: Landscape of Chinese Ink Art in 1980s, Himalayas Museum, Shanghai, China |
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2013
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Ink Painting in the United States, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China |
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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, New York, U.S.A. The Moment for Ink, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, U.S.A. |
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2012
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Ink: The Art of China, Saatchi Gallery, London, U.K. China's Imperial Modern: The Painter's Craft, University of Alberta Museums, Edmonton, Canada Ink Limit, DADE Art Center M50, Shanghai, China |
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2011
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N Minutes Video Art Festival: Urban Skin, organized by March Art Production, venues throughout Shanghai, China Qi Yun Sheng Dong, Contrasts Gallery, Shanghai, China XUAN, ETC.: Zheng Chongbin, Qiu Zhijie and You Si, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China |
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2010
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Inaugural Exhibition of Zendai Contemporary Art Exhibition Hall, Shanghai, China Contemporary Ink Painting, Morlan Gallery, Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky, U.S.A. The Third Taipei International Modern Ink Painting Biennial, Taipei, Taiwan Shanghai: Art of the City, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, U.S.A. |
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2009
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Point & Crosses: Exhibition of Contemporary Painting in China, Shanghai 2010 Art Center, Shanghai, China Calligraffiti: Writing in Contemporary Chinese and Latino Art, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, U.S.A. IN SITU, River South Art Center, Shanghai, China Contemporary Ink Painting: Shanghai New Ink Painting Art Exhibition, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China |
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2008
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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 Center, Shanghai, China |
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2007 |
Reboot: The Third Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu, China |
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2005 |
Dialogue, Michael Martin Galleries, San Francisco, U.S.A. |
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2003 |
Together, Michael Martin Galleries, Dallas, U.S.A. |
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1999
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From Chinese Ink to Abstraction, Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco, Francisco, U.S.A. |
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1996 |
Rice / Snails / Pigeons, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, U.S.A. |
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1995 |
Perception / Reflection, Gallery Concord, Concord, U.S.A. |
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1994
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Asian / American American / Asian, Belcher Studios Gallery, San Francisco, U.S.A. Cultural Identities and Immigration: Changing Images of America in the 90's, Oliver Arts Center, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, U.S.A. |
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1993
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Beyond the Written Word, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, CA, U.S.A. Group Six Show, Belcher Studios Gallery, San Francisco, U.S.A. |
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1992
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The Object Is Bound (The Book As Metaphor), Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, U.S.A. Art from Hangzhou, China, Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg, Germany |
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1991 |
A Grave Silence (Mixed Media Installation), Ghia Gallery, San Francisco, U.S.A. |
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1988 |
Chinese Painting Exhibition, Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg, Germany |
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1987 |
Contemporary Chinese Painting, Japan Gallery, Osaka, Japan |
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1985 |
National Young Artists Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China |
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SELECTED COLLECTIONS |
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British Museum, London Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Asian Art Museum, San Francisco Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Brooklyn Museum, New York Orange County Museum of Art, California Marina Bay Sands, Singapore Daimler Art Collection, Berlin DSL Collection, Paris, France M+ Museum, Hong Kong S.A.R. |
Last Updated: August 2018
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With a Sudden Vigor it Doth Possess: Zheng Chongbin’s Recent Paintings and Video Work
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Selfless Rhythms: Bach and Zheng Chongbin
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Becoming Landscape: Chimeric Unfoldings in the New Work of Zheng Chongbin
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Ink and the Body: A Phenomenological Approach
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Establishing Spirit in the Sea of Ink: Zheng Chongbin from Impulse to Form
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Walking Penumbra
Zheng Chongbin 24 Mar - 3 Jun 2018INK studio Beijing is proud to announce a major solo exhibition entitled Walking Penumbra for California- and Shanghai-based artist Zheng Chongbin. Opening on Saturday March 24 on the occasion of Gallery Weekend Beijing 2018 and running through May 27, 2018, the exhibition for the first time presents the artist’s multi-disciplinary practice—including his newest video and immersive light and space installation, his acrylic and video sculptures and a selection of his most recent paintings—as an integrated exploration of our living material world and how we, as conscious perceiving beings emergent with and within this world, construct ourselves and our reality.Read more -
WALL OF SKIES
ZHENG CHONGBIN 30 May - 23 Sep 2015"Wall of Skies," Zheng Chongbin's second solo exhibition at Ink Studio, presents his latest paintings and his new light-and-space practice, including a new rendition of his concurrent exhibit at the European Cultural Centre, Venice.Read more -
INK AND THE BODY
Ink and Phenomenology, Exhibition No. 1 21 Sep - 15 Nov 2014Ink Studio’s premier group show, Ink and the Body, launches a planned series of three exhibitions examining ink painting in terms of the relationship between the subject and both the...Read more -
IMPULSE, MATTER, FORM
ZHENG CHONGBIN 26 May - 4 Aug 2013Zheng Chongbin (b. Shanghai, 1961) is one of the most notable artists in the emerging field of contemporary Chinese ink art. Throughout his career, Zheng has systematically deconstructed and interrogated the origins of abstraction in both traditional Chinese and contemporary Euro-American artistic practices. Without abandoning his rigorous early 1980s training as an ink painter in China, Zheng has embraced precepts of American Abstract Expressionism, field painting and Minimalism. A fresh and dynamic synthesis of approaches from both traditions, Zheng's paintings resonate with both Eastern and Western art history, playing one against the other to break free of both.Read more
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EXHIBITION | Zheng Chongbin: Asymmetric Emergence (NEW YORK)
September 16, 2017SEP 19 - OCT 8, 2017 INK STUDIO at SUNDARAM TAGORE GALLERY, NEW YORK | 1100 Madison Avenue (82/83rd) Ink Studio is pleased to present...Read more -
Exhibition | CHINA NOW: NEW LITERATI ART (New York's Asia Week)
March 1, 2017INK studio, the critically-acclaimed Beijing-based art gallery, is pleased to announce China Now: New Literati Art, its inaugural group exhibition in the United States. On...Read more -
11th Shanghai Biennale|Why Not Ask Again?: Zheng Chongbin
January 17, 2017Zheng Chongbin presents a new version of his acclaimed light-and-space installation Wall of Skies during the 11th Shanghai Biennale, Why Not Ask Again?, where he has been selected as one of 11 Highlighted Artists by curators Raqs Media Collective.Read more -
Artist Panel: “Four Takes on the 1980’s”
November 4, 2016Moderators: Craig Yee (INK studio Director), Alan Yeung (INK studio Chief Editor) Participating artists: Li Jin, Wang Dongling, Zheng Chongbin, Zhang Jianjun In the late...Read more -
ART FAIR | INK STUDIO IN SHANGHAI, NOVEMBER 2016
November 3, 2016INK studio is excited to announce its programs in Shanghai in November 2016, at West Bund Art & Design, Art021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair, and Shanghai Biennale and featuring the new work of internationally celebrated artists Li Jin, Jennifer Wen Ma, Wang Dongling, and Zheng Chongbin.Read more -
EXHIBITION | ZHENG CHONGBIN AT THE ORANGE COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART
August 4, 2016Zheng Chongbin's latest video, Branches are Roots in the Sky (2016), will be on view at The Pacific Project: Zheng Chongbin the Orange County Museum...Read more -
Exhibition | Zheng Chongbin solo show "Structures" at Sotheby's S|2
April 21, 2016In partnership with Sotheby's S | 2 private art gallery, INK studio is excited to announce the opening of 'Structures,' a solo presentation of Zheng...Read more -
ART FAIR | Zheng Chongbin at The Armory Show
February 15, 2016INK studio is pleased to present the works of Zheng Chongbin at The Armory Show in March 2016 in New York, including a brand-new series...Read more -
EVENT | ZHENG CHONGBIN AT AURORA MUSEUM, SHANGHAI
January 15, 2016On Saturday, January 16, 2016, Zheng Chongbin will give a presentation at the Aurora Museum in Shanghai on 'The Medium of Agency.' The subject of...Read more -
EXHIBITION | ZHENG CHONGBIN'S CHIMERIC LANDSCAPE AT EUROPEAN CULTURAL CENTRE, VENICE
May 12, 2015During the current Venice Biennale, Zheng Chongbin is exhibiting his environmental video installation Chimeric Landscape in the international group exhibition 'Personal Structures - Crossing Borders'...Read more -
EXHIBITION | ZHENG CHONGBIN AT VENICE BIENNALE, INK STUDIO, AND DAIMLER CONTEMPORARY BERLIN
May 3, 2015This May, Zheng Chongbin's works will be simultaneously on view in Venice, Beijing, and Berlin. During the 56th Venice Biennale, Zheng Chongbin will show his...Read more -
EXHIBITION | ZHENG CHONGBIN AT "PERSONAL STRUCTURES - CROSSING BORDERS," EUROPEAN CULTURAL CENTRE
April 3, 2015Zheng Chongbin will participate in the upcoming group show “Personal Structures - Crossing Borders,” to be held at the European Cultural Centre during the 56th...Read more -
EXHIBITION | ZHENG CHONGBIN AT DAIMLER CONTEMPORARY BERLIN
March 1, 2015Zheng Chongbin’s White Reflection (2012), now part of the world-renowned Daimler Art Collection, will be featured in the exhibition From a Poem to the Sunset...Read more -
EXHIBITION | Zheng Chongbin: LACMA Pop-up Exhibition
November 27, 2014Ink Studio invites you to their first Holiday Pop-Up Exhibition in Downtown Los Angeles in celebration of Zheng Chongbin's new works. The Pop-Up exhibition runs...Read more -
EVENT | Zheng Chongbin: Impulse, Matter, Form at the Asian Art Museum, San Franscisco
October 11, 2014Zheng Chongbin: Impulse, Matter, Form Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, California October 19, 2014, 2:00 pm (local time) http://www.asianart.org/events/531?starttime=1412553600 Join acclaimed local ink painter Zheng...Read more -
BOOK LAUNCH | Zheng Chongbin
March 14, 2014Book launch–Zheng Chongbin: Impulse, Matter, Form Panel discussion with Britta Erickson, Craig Yee, Kenneth Wayne and Zheng Chongbin RH Contemporary New York Gallery 437 West...Read more
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Art Basel Hong Kong 2020
Shiryu Morita, Yuichi Inoue, Ahn Sung Keum, Jeong Gwang Hee, Kim Ho Deuk, Li Jin, Wang Tiande, Zheng Chongbin 18 - 25 Mar 2020INK studio is proud to participate in Art Basel Hong Kong’s Online Viewing Room program from March 18 to 25. Through this digital platform, INK...Read more -
West Bund Art & Design 2019
Bingyi, Kim Jongku, Lee In, Peng Kanglong, Xu Bing, Xu Lei, Zheng Chongbin, Jeong Gwang Hee 7 - 10 Nov 2019INK studio is proud to participate in West Bund Art & Desgin in Shanghai from November 7 to 10. Located at booth A205, INK studio...Read more -
Art Taipei 2019
Bingyi, Huang Zhiyang, Li Huasheng, Zheng Chongbin, Xu Bing 17 - 21 Oct 2019INK studio is proud to participate in Art Taipei from October 17 to 21. Located at booth E01, INK studio will present works by five...Read more -
Ink Asia 2019
Bingyi, Kim Jongku, Li Jin, Peng Kanglong, Xu Lei, Zheng Chongbin, Zeng Xiaojun 3 - 7 Oct 2019INK studio is proud to participate in Ink Asia from October 3 to 7. Located at booth K6+L3+L5, INK studio will present works by seven...Read more -
Art Basel | Hong Kong 2019
Li Huasheng, Xu Bing, Zheng Chongbin, Jeong Gwanghee, Kim Jongku 27 - 31 Mar 2019INK studio is proud to participate in Art Basel Hong Kong from March 29 to 31 in Hong Kong , with VIP preview on March...Read more -
WEST BUND ART & DESIGN FAIR 2018
Bingyi, Li Huasheng, Li Jin, Yang Jiechang, Zheng Chongbin 8 - 11 Nov 2018INK studio is proud to participate in the fifth edition of West Bund Art & Design from November 8 to 11 in Shanghai, with VIP...Read more -
INK ASIA HONG KONG 2018
Bingyi, Michael Cherney, Huang Zhiyang, Li Huasheng, Li Jin, and Zheng Chongbin 29 Sep - 2 Oct 2018INK studio is proud to participate in Ink Asia, the world’s first art fair dedicated to ink art, from September 29th through October 2nd, with...Read more -
Art Shenzhen 2018
Hung Fai, Li Huasheng, Li Jin, Cindy Ng, Xu Bing, Yang Jiechang, Zheng Chongbin 14 - 17 Sep 2018INK studio is proud to participate in Art Shenzhen from September 14th through September 17th. Located at booth B07, the presentation features works by seven...Read more -
Beijing Contemporary 2018
Li Huasheng, Li Jin, Yang Jiechang, Zheng Chongbin 30 Aug - 2 Sep 2018INK studio is proud to participate in the inaugural Beijing Contemporary EXPO from August 30th through September 2nd. Located at booth V03, the presentation features...Read more -
Art West Lake 2018
Bingyi, Chen Haiyan, Li Huasheng, Li Jin, Wang Dongling, Yang Jiechang, Zheng Chongbin 24 - 28 May 2018INK studio is proud to participate in Art West Lake / International Ink Wash Fair in Hangzhou from May 24th through May 28th . Located...Read more -
Art Basel | Hong Kong 2018
Zheng Chongbin, Bingyi, Huang Zhiyang, Yang Jiechang 27 - 31 Mar 2018Galleries: Booth 3D08 March 29 - 31, 2018 (VIP Preview: March 27 - 28) Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre, 1 Harbour Road, Wan Chai,...Read more -
Ink Asia Hong Kong 2017
Bingyi, Chen Haiyan, Huang Zhiyang, Li Jin, Tai Xiangzhou, Yang Jiechang, Zheng Chongbin 15 - 17 Dec 2017Booth: A8 December 15-17, 2017 Hall 5B, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, 1 Expo Drive, Hong Kong Is Ink Art Abstract Art? In the...Read more -
West Bund Art & Design Fair 2017
Zheng Chongbin, Yang Jiechang, Huang Zhiyang, Li Jin, Tai Xiangzhou 10 - 12 Nov 2017Booth: C4 November 10 - 12, 2017 West Bund Art Center, 2555 Longteng Avenue, Shanghai, China INK studio is proud to participate in the fourth...Read more -
Art Basel | Hong Kong 2017
Zheng Chongbin 23 - 25 Mar 2017Media packet with high-resolution images are available at http://www.inkstudio.com.cn/abhk2017 Insights: Booth 3D28 March 23 - 25, 2017 Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre, 1...Read more -
Ink Asia Hong Kong 2016
Bingyi, Huang Zhiyang, Li Huasheng, Li Jin, Cindy Ng, Wang Dongling, Zheng Chongbin 16 - 18 Dec 2016As the premier Mainland Chinese art gallery specializing in experimental contemporary ink art, INK studio has regularly appeared in top-tier art fairs, including Art Basel Hong Kong and the Armory Show, and placed artworks with major museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and M+. INK Asia 2016 is INK studio’s first opportunity to engage the public in Hong Kong with its gallery program. We are excited to present a careful selection of works by seven leading artists— Bingyi, Huang Zhiyang, Li Huasheng, Li Jin, Cindy Ng, Wang Dongling, and Zheng Chongbin—organized around the theme of Brushwork After Brushwork, complemented by a public installation by Huang Zhiyang.Read more -
11th Shanghai Biennale, Why Not Ask Again?
Zheng Chongbin 11 Nov 2016 - 12 Mar 2017Zheng Chongbin, exclusively represented by INK studio, will present a new version of his acclaimed light-and-space installation Wall of Skies at the 2016 Shanghai Biennale, Why Not Ask Again? (Power Station of Art, 200 Huayuangang Rd, Huangpu, Shanghai), November 11, 2016 – March 12, 2017. Zheng has been selected as one of 11 Highlighted Artists by Biennale curators Raqs Media Collective.Read more -
West Bund Art & Design Fair 2016
Li Jin, Wang Dongling, Zheng Chongbin 9 - 13 Nov 2016INK studio will present a careful selection of new works by Li Jin, Wang Dongling, and Zheng Chongbin at Booth C3 of West Bund Art & Design (West Bund Art Center, 2555 Longteng Avenue, Shanghai), November 9-13, 2016. All three are among the most accomplished and celebrated contemporary ink artists and have recently made career-defining creative breakthroughs. It is at this exciting moment that INK studio is bringing to Shanghai their respective latest series. As part of the VIP Program of West Bund, INK studio will also host a panel discussion with Li, Wang, Zheng, and Zhang Jianjun entitled “Four Takes on the 1980’s” on November 10, 2016.Read more -
The Armory Show 2016
Zheng Chongbin 3 - 6 Mar 2016INK studio is pleased to present the works of Zheng Chongbin at The Armory Show in March 2016 in New York, including a brand-new series of paintings and the U.S. debut of his acclaimed environmental video installation, Chimeric Landscape (2015), previously seen at INK studio and the European Cultural Centre, Venice. This presentation comes at a particularly exciting moment for the artist, who has recently been recognized with acquisitions by such major international collections as the Daimler Art Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and M+. A participant in the 2014 Armory Show, INK studio will return to the fair this year as the only China-based gallery.Read more -
West Bund Art & Design Fair 2015
Bingyi, Li Huasheng, Zheng Chongbin 8 - 13 Sep 2015INK studio is pleased to announce its participation in the upcoming West Bund Art & Design Fair, September 8-13, 2015, Shanghai, China.Read more
Articles, Reviews and Interview
Zheng Chongbin郑重宾. “You zuohua suo xiangdao de” 由作画所想到的[Thoughts from Painting]. Huajia画家 [Painter], no. 3 (September 1986): 30-31.
Lang Shaojun郎绍君. “Chouxiang yuhui de xunzhao — Zheng Chongbin shuimohua de qishi” 抽象語汇的寻找——郑重宾水墨画的启示.[Searching for the Abstract Vocabulary—The Revelation of Zheng Chongbin’s Ink Painting]. Zhongguo meishu bao中国美术报 [Fine Arts in China], no. 21 (1988).
“Abstract Meeting of East and West.” San Francisco Chronicle, July 28, 1989.
Brenhouse, Hillary. “Brush with Modernity.” Time International (Asia Edition), October 3, 2011.(http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2094434,00.html)
Chattopadhyay, Collette. “Zheng Chongbin: Defining His Own Terrain.” Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art 10, no. 4 (July/August 2011): 21–26.
Chen, Xiaoxin 陈孝信. “Lun shuimo yishu lingyu nei de shehuixue zhuanxing” 论水墨艺术领域内的社会学转型 [On Sociological Transformation in Ink and Wash Paintings]. Pipingjia 批评家 [Art Critic], no. 1 (August 2008): 39-45.
Claypool, Lisa. “Architectonic Ink: Zheng Chongbin in Conversation with Lisa Claypool.” Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art 10, no. 4 (July/August 2011): 41–53.
Claypool, Lisa. “Where is Shanghai?.” Orientations 41, no. 1 (January / February 2010): 50–54.
Claypool, Lisa 祁珊立. “Houxiandai shuimo”后现代水墨 [Postmodern Ink]. In Zhongguo baijia jinling huazhan: zhongwai xuezhe gaofeng luntan lunwen huibian 中国百家金陵画展:中外学者高峰论坛论文汇编 [China Jinling Exhibition Chinese and Foreign Scholars BBS Peak].Nanjing: Nanjing daxue 南京大学 [Nanjing University], 2011, pp. 17–23.
Cohn, Terri. “Counter Attacks.” Artweek, December 12, 1991.
“Conceptual Art by the Book.” San Francisco Examiner, Art Section, April 24, 1992.
Daswani, Kavita. “King of Ink.” South China Morning Post, August 14, 2012.
DeWolf, Christopher. “The Rebirth of Chinese Ink Painting.” CNNGo.com, May 20, 2011. (http://travel.cnn.com/hong-kong/play/rebirth-chinese-ink-painting-043589#ixzz1f4RCFRVI)
Erickson, Britta 林似竹. “Zheng Chongbin de kongjian lingyu” 郑重宾的空间领域 [Innovations in Space: Ink Paintings by Zheng Chongbin]. InZheng, Chongbin 郑重宾. Zheng Chongbin: shuimo hua 郑重宾:水墨画 [Zheng Chongbin: Ink Painting]. Shanghai: printed by author, 2007.
Erickson, Britta. “Innovations in Space: Ink Paintings by Zheng Chongbin.” In Zheng Chongbin: Emergent. Singapore: Valentine Willie Fine Art, 2010. Variation of “Innovations in Space: Ink Paintings by Zheng Chongbin,” 2007.
Erickson, Britta 林似竹. “Lun Zheng Chongbin de shuimohua” 论郑重宾的水墨画 [Discussing the Ink Paintings of Zheng Chongbin]. Guojia meishu 国家美术 [National Arts], no. 8 (July/ August 2009): 44–51.
Erickson, Britta 林似竹. “Xinyi angran, hunhou tiancheng: lun Zheng Chongbin de shuimohua”新意盎然,浑厚天成——论郑重宾的水墨画[Discussing the Ink Paintings of Zheng Chongbin]. Meishu xiangdao 美术向导 [Art Guide], no. 133 (March 2008): 35–48.
Erickson, Britta 林似竹. “Kongjian yu huihua linian de chuangxin: Zheng Chongbin he Qiu Shihua de huihua” 空间与绘画理念的创新:郑重宾和邱世华的绘画 [Innovations in Space and Painting Philosophy: Paintings by Zheng Chongbin and Qiu Shihua]. In Feng, Bin 冯斌 and Shen Kuiyi 沈揆一, eds. Chongxin qidong: disanjie Chengdu shuangnianzhan 重新启动:第三届成都双年展 [Reboot: The Third Chengdu Biennale]. Shijiazhuang: Hebei meishu chubanshe 河北美术出版社 [Heibei Fine Arts Publishing House], 2007, 80–83. Edited version published in Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art 7, no. 1 (January 2008): 56–58.
Ewart, Nancy. “The Dimension of Ink, #1 by Zheng Chongbin (at the Asian).” San Francisco Examiner, February 28, 2010.
“From Cover to Cover.” Artweek, May 7, 1992.
Godfrey, Tony. “Zheng Chongbin: Ten Metaphors with which to Experience his Paintings.” Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art 10, no. 4 (July/August 2011): 27–40.
“Group 6 Goes to China.” Artweek, November 17, 1994, 3.
Gu, Jing 顾婧. “Xuan · Yan” 宣·延 [Xuan, etc.]. Yishu luntan 艺术论坛 [Art Forum], July 31, 2011. (http://artforum.com.cn/archive/search=%E9%83%91%E9%87%8D%E5%AE%BE/3703)
Hou, Hanru 侯瀚如. “Zhen yu jia de duijie: Zheng Chongbin de xin zuo (jiexuan)” 连接真与假——郑重宾近作(节选) [Connecting Real and Fake: Zheng Chongbin’s Recent Works (Excerpts)]. Yishu dangdai 艺术当代 [Art China], no. 5 (2010): 96–97.
Hou Hanru. “Connecting the Real and the Fake: Zheng Chongbin’s New Work.” Zheng Chongbin: Emergent. Singapore: Valentine Willie Fine Art, 2010.
“Image Magazine.” San Francisco Chronicle, September 10, 1989, 44–45.
Kolesnikov-Jessop, Sonia. “Zheng Chongbin Creates Amorphous Ink Geometries.” Artinfo, October 21, 2012.(http://sea.blouinartinfo.com/visual-arts/article/840050-zheng-chongbin-creates-amorphous-ink-geometries)
Kolesnikov-Jessop, Sonia. “Zheng Chongbin Creates Amorphous Ink Geometries.” Artinfo, October 21, 2012.(http://sea.blouinartinfo.com/visual-arts/article/840050-zheng-chongbin-creates-amorphous-ink-geometries)
Lang, Shaojun 郎绍君. “Chouxiang yuhui de xunzhao: Zheng Chongbin shuimohua de qishi”抽象语汇的寻找——郑重宾水墨画的启示 [In Search of an Abstract Vocabulary: On Zheng Chongbin’s Ink Paintings]. Zhongguo meishu bao 中国美术报 [China Fine Arts Journal], vol. 21, May 23, 1988.
Liao, Liao 了了. “Chongsu yazhou hexin wenhua de yuyan” 重塑亚洲核心文化的语言 [Rebuild the Language of Asian Core Culture].Zhongguo meishu 国家美术 [National Arts](August 2009): 43–51.
Scholz, Zachary Royer. “Best exhibition you likely never saw: Zheng Chongbin, White Ink, Chinese Cultural Center of San Francisco, May 19–September 3, 2011.” In “Best Of: Year Two.” Art Practical, August 16, 2011.(http://www.artpractical.com/feature/best_of_zachary_royer_scholz/)
Straus, Tamara. “Chinese Ink Painter Zheng Goes Full Circle with New Show.” San Francisco Chronicle, May 18, 2011.
Van Proyen, Mark. “Thoughts on Recent Abstract Painting.” Squarecylinder.com, October 5, 2011.(http://www.squarecylinder.com/2011/10/presence-past-and-reverie-future-some-thoughts-on-recent-abstract-painting/)
Van Proyen, Mark. “A Tour de Force.” Art in America (June 2011): 197.
Zheng Chongbin. “Adding Perspective.” Pipeline, no. 27 (March 2012): cover, 45, 50.
Zheng Chongbin 郑重宾. “Shuimo: zuowei xiangzheng yiwei de yuyan” 水墨——作为象征意味的语言 [Ink: As a Symbolic Language]. Huajia画家 [Painter] (September 1986).
Liu, Lei 刘磊 interviewed Zheng Chongbin 郑重宾. “Zheng Chongbin: wo de zuopin yizhi zai zuo liangzhong yuxi de zhenghe” 郑重宾:我的作品一直在做两种语系的整合 [Zheng Chongbin: My Works are Constantly Working on Integrating Two Kinds of Language]. Huakan: jinri zhongguo meishu 画刊:今日中国美术 [Art Semi-monthly Chinese Art Today], no. 40 (December 2012): 28–29.
Wilson, Kate. Drawing and Painting: Materials and Techniques for Contemporary Artists. UK: Thames and Hudson, (February 2, 2015): 38–39.
Wilson, Kate. The Artist’s Everything Handbook: a New Guide to Drawing and Painting. USA: Harper Design (February 17, 2015): 38–39.
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Exhibition Catalogues and Monographs
Chattopadhyay, Collette, Abby Chen, and Kuiyi Shen. White Ink. San Francisco: Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco, 2011.
Chattopadhyay, Collette, Abby Chen, and Kuiyi Shen. China’s Imperial Modern: The Painter’s Craft. Edmonton: University of Alberta Museums, 2012.
Chattopadhyay, Collette. Calligraffitti: ‘Writing’ in Contemporary Chinese and Chicano Art. Pasadena: Pacific Asia Museum, 2009, unpublished.
Crudo, Francesca, et al. Personal Structures: Culture·Mind·Becoming. Leiden: Global Art Center, 2013.
Feng Bin 冯斌, and Shen Kuiyi 沈揆一, eds. Chongxin qidong: disanjie Chengdu shuangnianzhan 重新启动:第三届成都双年展 [Reboot: The Third Chengdu Biennale]. Shijiazhuang: Hebei meishu chubanshe 河北美术出版社 [Heibei Fine Arts Publishing House], 2007.
Johnson, Mark Dean, ed. The Moment for Ink. San Francisco: San Francisco State University, 2013.
Knight, Michael J., et al. Shanghai: Art of the City. San Francisco: Asian Art Museum, 2010.
Noth, Jochen, et al., eds. China Avant-Garde: Counter-Currents in Art and Culture. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Valentine Willie Fine Art. Zheng Chongbin: Emergent. Singapore: Valentine Willie Fine Art, 2010.
Zheng, Chongbin 郑重宾. Zheng Chongbin: shuimo hua 郑重宾:水墨画 [Zheng Chongbin: Ink Painting]. Shanghai: printed by author, 2007.
Erickson, Britta. Zheng Chongbin: Impulse, Matter, Form (Contemporary Chinese Ink) . New York: Distributed Art Publishers, 2014.
Other Materials
Asiart Archive. Collection Online: Zheng Chongbin. (http://www.aaa.org.hk/Home/Search?globalKeyword=zheng+chongbin)。
Erickson, Britta. producer and director. “Zheng Chongbin's Lines." In The Enduring Passion for Ink: A Project on Contemporary Chinese Ink Painters. Part of 10-part film series, 16 min., digital, color, sound, 2013.
Fine Arts In China, May 1988, fig. Zheng, Chongbin 郑重宾. Lianpu 脸谱 [Facial Types] (1987/88), fig. Ren de lingyi zhong zhuangtai 人的另一种状态 [Anther State of Man] (1988).
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Installation of Walking Penumbra
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Walking Penumbra:Installation and Video
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The Enduring Passion for Ink: A Project on Contemporary Ink Painters
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Wall of Skies: View and Vision
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On Chimeric Landscape
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