Zheng Chongbin

Zheng Chongbin (born 1961, Shanghai) is an American contemporary visual artist, who has worked in ink and acrylic paintings, light and space installations and digital media.

[4] Zheng's graduation project was influenced by this environment, resulting in gongbi ink paintings, depicting scenes of Tibetan rural life and labour, observed during a 1983 trip to Tibet.

[7] These exposures impacted Zheng's early works, including Another State of Man (second half of the 1980s), where he combined ink and acrylic on paper to create anthropomorphic figures inspired by Francis Bacon and Max Beckmann.

[14] His techniques include moving a scraper along the surface of just-poured paint, which results in the emergence of spontaneously created dots and fractal lines within the artwork.

[19] Zheng used footage of various life forms, combining snapshots of the natural world, such as splashing waves, with scientific materials, including topographical NASA images and microscopic views of molecules.

Zheng Chongbin, Wall of Skies , 2015, Light and Space installation
Projection of Zheng Chongbin's Chimeric Landscape (2015) at Art on theMART , Chicago, 2018
Installation of Zheng Chongbin's I Look for the Sky (2020) at the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, 2021