Zheng Yuan was born in 1988 in Lanzhou and currently lives and works in Beijing. He received his master\u2019s degree from School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2015. Working primarily in time-based media, Zheng often operates at the intersection of fiction, documentary, and investigative research. His work focuses on the relationships between identity and value systems within different historical, social, and political conditions. In 2017, he began the \u201cChina Northwest Airlines\u201d project, an attempt to process the history of China\u2019s recent economic transformation through the prism of the civil aviation industry, in particular the story of a failed airline based in his home region of northwestern China.<\/p>\n
His recent solo exhibitions\/projects include \u201cBare Minimum\u201d, MadeIn Gallery, 2024; \u201cForward, Backward\u201d, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, 2020; \u201cUp in the Air\u201d, Taikang Space, Beijing, 2017; \u201cAn Open Studio\u201d Practice, New York, 2016. Selected group exhibitions include: \u201ce-flux Film Award\u201d screening, New York, 2024; \u201cFilm\u201d, Art Basel Hong Kong, Hong Kong\u00a0Arts Center, Hong Kong, 2023; \u201cThe Future is Here, Are You Coming?\u201d, Center for East Asian Studies,\u00a0University of Chicago, Chicago, 2022; E-flux Screening Room, New York, 2022; \u201cBetween Sci-fi and Illusory\u201d, MAXXI Museum, Rome, 2022; \u201cFuture Tense: Microcinema event\u201d, Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, 2022; \u201cDouble Vision\u201d, Tai Kwun, Hong Kong, 2022;\u00a0\u201cAction as Gesture I\u201d, Art Museum of Nanjing University of the Arts, Nanjing, China, 2022; \u201cFeeling the Stones\u201d, Diriyah Biennale, Saudi Arabia, 2021; \u201cA Show about Nothing\u201d, BY ART MATTERS Museum, Hangzhou, China, 2021; \u201cA Long Hello – Huayu Youth Award Exhibition\u201d, UCCA, Beijing, 2020; \u201ceverything you\u2019ve ever wanted is on the other side of the planet\u201d, Angewandte Innovation Lab, Vienna, Austria, 2020; \u201cAn Impulse to Turn\u201d, Beijing Inside-out Art Museum, Beijing, 2020; \u201cUN\/ CONVENTIONAL: OCAT x KADIST Emerging Media Artist Exhibition\u201c, OCAT Shanghai, Shanghai, 2020; \u201cCosmopolis #1.5: Enlarged Intelligence\u201d, Chengdu, 2018; \u201cOFFLINE BROWSER\u201d, The 6th Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition, Hong-gah Museum, Taipei, 2018; \u201cNew Metallurgists\u201d, Julia Stoschek Collection, D\u00fcsseldorf, 2018; \u201cLong March Project – Building Code Violations III Special Economic Zone\u201d, Long March Space, Beijing, 2018.<\/p>\n
His works are also screened at film festivals and online platforms, including Daata Fair, 2021; Visions du R\u00e9el, 2021; Arkipel Festival, 2021; \u201cCrashing into the Future\u201d, e-flux Artist Cinemas, online, 2021; \u201cHasty Falling Time\u201d, 5th floor, Centre d\u2019Art Contemporain Gen\u00e8ve, online, 2020; \u201cOut of Blueprints\u201d, Serpentine Galleries x NOWNESS, online, 2020; International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, 2019; Kasseler Dokfest, 2019; 25 FPS Festival, 2019; Ann Arbor Film Festival, 2017.<\/p>\n
He has won funding from the \u201cArt Production and Exhibition Support Program\u201d in 2022-23 of New Century Art Foundation and was awarded the Jury Award at the 8th Huayu Youth Award 2020.<\/p>\n
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