Index

• Preface
• About my given name
• Forewords
• CENTURY: SHENG PROJECT
• News
• Journeys

Biography

Shengtian Zheng was born in China and graduated from the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou. For more than thirty years, he worked at his alma mater as Professor and Chair of the Oil Painting Department. He was also a visiting professor at the University of Minnesota and at San Diego State University in the 1980s. Zheng has immigrated to Canada since 1990. In1993 he was elected as the Chairman of Chinese Canadian Artists Federation in Vancouver. From 1996 to 2000, he was the Secretary of the Annie Wong Art Foundation and Director of Art Beatus Gallery. In 2002 he co-founded Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, the first English language magazine on contemporary Chinese art and has been the Managing Editor since then. He was a founding member and Board Director of Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art (Centre A) from 1999 to 2011. He is also a Trustee of Asia Art Archive in North America since 2009 and Vancouver Art Gallery from 2011 to 2015. In 2015 he was appointed as the Adjunct Director of Institute for Asian Art at Vancouver Art Gallery. From 2019 he is the Research Fellow of Simon Fraser University. As an independent curator, he has organized and curated numerous exhibitions including Jiangnan - Modern and Contemporary Chinese Art Exhibitions (Vancouver), Shanghai Modern (Munich, Keil), the 2004 Shanghai Biennale, China Trade (Vancouver), Art and China’ Revolution (New York), Landmark (Beijing) and Winds from Fusang: Mexico and China in the 20th Century (Pasadena, Mexico City) . He was the Senior Curator for Asia for Vancouver Biennale from 2009-2014 and won the Lifetime Achievement Award for his curatorial work. Zheng is a frequent contributor to periodicals and catalogues of contemporary Chinese and Asian art. In 2013, Zheng Shengtian: Selected Writing on Art was published in four volumes by China Academy of Art Press. Another book Art in the Cloud was published in 2016 by Shanghai Literature & Art Publishing House. He has lectured widely at institutions including Harvard University, Columbia University, Princeton University, Stanford University, Tate Modern, Getty Museum, San Francisco Asian Art Museum, among others. As an artist, his work has been showing in China, United States and Canada since 1960s and was a participant artist at the 5th Moscow Biennale in 2011. He held an exhibition Guan Shan Gethering at Chambers Fine Art in Beijing and New York in 2014. Zheng received an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver in 2013.