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Connie Zheng Short Bio

Connie Zheng is an interdisciplinary artist, writer and filmmaker who was born in China, grew up in the Northeastern United States, and is currently based out of Oakland, California. Her specialties move between text, drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, and time-based media, and she draws heavily upon methods of assemblage and recontextualization. She has presented scholarly work at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and exhibited her visual work around the U.S., including the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the Minnesota Street Project (San Francisco), and AIR Gallery (New York). She has been awarded residencies and fellowships from the Headlands Center for the Arts, the Vermont Studio Center, and ACRE, and her writing has appeared on SFMOMA's Open Space platform, Art Practical and in the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies.

Early Life/Career

Career: Marketing and Communications — Fidelity Investments UX Research Manager — Lumos Labs Research Fellow – Asia Collection —- Kadist Art Foundation

Education and Training: PhD student in Visual Studies (History of Art and Visual Culture) —- present, UC Santa Cruz MFA in Art Practice, University of California — Berkeley BA in Economics & English, Brown University

Works Paintings Seeds for Secreat Garden, 2021. A series of five mixed-media printed and collaged cyanotype 'exposures' (in the photographic sense) of speculative seed germination sequences. Originally made for my solo exhibition new yamfish seed exchange (nyse) Routes/Roots, 2021. Mixed media on cyanotype and silkscreen print. 10’ x 5’. Made with production support from Brian von Bargen and Jud Bergeron. Photography by Jenna Garrett and the Minnesota Street Project. We heard the sky used to be a field of blue, 2020, mixed media on Mylar, 36" x 64.5". Custom lightbox made by Damon Little, in collaboration with the artist. Installation view at the Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito (CA), Dec 2020. Photographs 1-3 by Andria Lo, courtesy of the Headlands Center for the Arts. Photographs 4-6 by the artist. Film+Video Seedtime, 2020. Single-channel HD video with sound. 12 min 39 sec. Installation view at the Headlands Center for the Arts (2020) and stills. Photography by Connie Zheng and Ben Elie. Documentation by Connie Zheng. Installations New yamfish seed exchange (nyse), 2021. Installed at the Minnesota Street Projection (San Francisco, CA). Photography by Jenna Garrett and the Minnesota Street Project. Seed almanac. 2020. Collaboratively-made bisqued stoneware seeds, live synechococcus and prochlorococcus cultures, moist stoneware clay, glass basins, seed identification tablets made of salvaged wood, dimensions variable. Exhibits Current After Hope: Videos of Resistance, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco (CA), Spring 2021 - ongoing Tikkun: For the Cosmos, The Community, and Ourselves, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco (CA), Feb 17 2022 - Jan 8 2023 Residency, Real Time and Space, Oakland (CA), Feb - April 2022 Upcoming Commonstrust: artists and the commons, University of San Francisco Thacher Gallery, San Francisco (CA), March 7 - April 10 2022 Grow Our Souls, SOMArts Gallery, San Francisco (CA), April 29 - May 22 2022 tbd, Labor is a Medium, Santa Rosa (CA), Summer 2022 Recent How The Jewish Museum’s latest exhibition perfectly captures this moment in time, by Jonathan Curiel, San Francisco Examiner, Feb 23 2022 Official selection, Berlin Independent Film Festival (virtual), Feb 9 - 16 2022 HORIZONS, Singapore Art Week (virtual), Jan 22 - 23 2022 Turning Art Into Activism with ‘After Hope’, by Tim Brinkhof, MUBI Notebook, September 8 2021 Residency, Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Upperville (VA), July 5 - Aug 8 2021 new yamfish seed exchange (nyse) (solo exhibition), Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco (CA), June 26 - July 31 2021 Crisis Imaginaries: On Slow Violence and the Anti-Spectacle (in conversation with Irene de Craen), Framer Framed, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 21 2021 Amidst Slow Violence: Cascading Reincarnations in Thao-Nguyen Phan’s Becoming Alluvium, Errant Journal #2: Slow Violence The Perpetual Present, Past, and Future: Slow Violence and Chinese Frameworks of In/Visibility and Time in Zhao Liang’s Behemoth, The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Art, Visual Culture and Climate Change (eds. T.J. Demos, Emily Eliza Scott, Subhankar Banerjee)

Awards and Honors

2020 Chancellor's Award https://diversity.ucsf.edu/initiatives/odo-flagship-events/chancellor-awards/advancement-of-women 2020 Regent's Fellowship https://havc.ucsc.edu/people/connie-zheng

References https://www.conniezheng.com https://sfai.edu/bios/connie-zheng https://havc.ucsc.edu/people/connie-zheng https://www.linkedin.com/in/conniezheng