Connie Zheng

Connie Zheng
EducationBrown University
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Santa Cruz
Occupations
  • Artist
  • writer
  • filmmaker

Connie Zheng is a Chinese-born artist, writer, and filmmaker based in Oakland, California. Her projects include large-scale maps, seed exchanges, seed-making workshops, and experimental films about seeds. Themes in Zheng's work include navigating diasporic memory, ecological transformation, and relationships between human and more-than-human worlds.

Education

Zheng 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.

Career

Exhibitions

Zheng's work has been exhibited at the Asian Art Museum, the Contemporary Jewish Museum, SOMArts Gallery, and Thacher Gallery at the University of San Francisco in San Francisco, CA; Singapore Art Week; Framer Framed, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and the IMPAKT Festival in the Netherlands, 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.

Awards

Zheng has received fellowships and residencies from the Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA; the Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Upperville, VA, and the Minnesota Street Project Foundation, San Francisco, CA, among others.

Zheng was the inaugural recipient of the Joint Space Award, awarded by The Space Program San Francisco and the Minnesota Street Project Foundation.

Publications

Zheng's work has been published in Hyperallergic, KQED Arts, and MUBI Notebook, among others.

Zheng wrote a chapter for the Routledge Companion to Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Climate Change published in 2021. She has also contributed to SFMOMA's Open Space blog.

References

  1. ↑ "Connie Zheng". FilmFreeway. Archived from the original on 26 July 2022. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
  2. 1 2 "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.
  3. 1 2 "Connie Zheng". Grow Our Souls Exhibition. Archived from the original on 26 July 2022. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
  4. ↑ "Exhibitions: After Hope: Videos of Resistance". Asian Art Museum. 2021. Archived from the original on 3 October 2023. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
  5. ↑ "Tikkun: For the Cosmos, the Community, and Ourselves". Contemporary Jewish Museum. 2022. Archived from the original on 10 March 2024. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
  6. ↑ "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.
  7. ↑ "Connie Zheng". Framer Framed. Archived from the original on 16 November 2023. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
  8. ↑ "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.
  9. ↑ "Looking Outward: Bay Area Now 9 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts". Variable West. 2023-11-28. Retrieved 2024-04-07.
  10. ↑ "Connie Zheng". Headlands Center for the Arts. July 2019. Archived from the original on 7 June 2023. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
  11. ↑ "Connie Zheng - Artist in Residence, 2021". Oak Spring Garden Foundation. Archived from the original on 26 July 2022. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
  12. ↑ "Connie Zheng: new yamfish seed exchange (nyse)". Minnesota Street Project. 2021. Retrieved 26 July 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  13. ↑ "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.
  14. ↑ "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.
  15. ↑ "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.
  16. ↑ "The Space Program San Francisco - A Bay Area Artist Residency". The Space Program San Francisco - A Bay Area Artist Residency. Retrieved 2022-07-26.
  17. ↑ 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.
  18. ↑ 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.
  19. ↑ 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.
  20. ↑ 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.
  21. ↑ 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.