Zheng Lu was born in 1978 in Chifeng, Inner Mongolia. He received a BA and MA from Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts (Sculpture Department) and Central Academy of Fine Arts (Sculpture Department). In 2005, he won L.V.M.H. Young Artists’ Awards in France, and thus had the opportunity to study in Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts. Recent years has seen Zheng gradually setting up and improving his own logic and vocabulary in art on the basis of practice and experiment. Substances, scripts, water, time, space, and a number of concepts are included into his aesthetic world to form an organic whole, from which derives his unique renderings. In the meanwhile, his works are also metaphoric of the diversity and the possibility of life, as well as of our response to the relation between nature, the self, and the ego.
1978 Born in Chi Feng, Inner Mongolia, China
1998-2003 Lu Xun Fine Art Academy, Sculpture Department
2004 – 2007 Central Academy of Fine Art, Sculpture Department
2006 Grant from LVMH Prize, three months training at The École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts, ENSBA, Paris
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017 Fluid Symphonies, Anima Gallery, Doha, Qatar
2017 Undercurrent, Zheng Lu Solo Exhibition, Sundaram Tagore Chelsea, NY, USA
2016 Re-sist-ance, Zheng Lu Solo Exhibition, Long Museum, Shanghai
Reflection on Still Water, Zheng Lu Solo Exhibition, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Singapore
Transition, Zheng Lu Solo Exhibition, Parkview Green Exhibition Hall, Beijing, China
2015 SHIOSAI – Zheng Lu Solo Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei
H-O-H, Zheng Lu Solo Exhibition, Between Art Lab, Beijing, China
2014 Resurface, Gajah Gallery, Singapore
2013 Water from Water, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China
2011 Bow Without an Arrow, MOT/ARTS, Taipei
Passage of Time, Schoeni Art Gallery, Hong Kong
2010 Constellations Shen and Shang, J Art, Shanghai, China
Object Distance, F2 Gallery, Beijing, China
2009 Interpreting Nonexistence – Zheng Lu Solo Exhibition, New Age Gallery, Beijing, China
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017 Dialogue, AAW, Beijing
On Sharks & Humanity—Parkview Green Museum, Singapore
LOCK ROUTE, Gillman Barracks, Singapore
2016 The First Longli International New Media Arts Festival, Longli, Guizhou
City-Rebirth, Shanghai Jing’an Internatioanl Sculpture Project, Jing’an Sculpture Park, Shanghai
New Sculpture,Hi Art, Beijing
IN&OUT,Nanjing Museum,Nanjing
Guns N Roses, Kunstraum Potsdam, Berlin, Germany
Entry, Dong Hu Public Sculpture Exhibition,Chengdu, Sichuan
2015 The Bright Eye of the Universe, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York, USA
New Sculptures, Hi Art Center, Beijing, China
A Beautiful Mind – Chinese Sculpture Group Shows, Amelie Gallery, Beijing, China
SOVRAPPOSIZIONI DI IMMAGINI Group Show, Casa dei Carraresi, Italy
Alchemy Group show, Between Art Lab, Shanghai, China
On Sharks & Humanity, National Museum of China, Beijing, China
On Sharks & Humanity, Ekaterina cultural foundation, Moscow
2014 Shanshui, 37.8ART LAB, Beijing, China
Parkview Art Hong Kong, Parkview Gallery, Hong Kong
New Sculpture, Hi Art, Beijing, China
On Sharks &Humanity, Musée Océanographique de Monaco, Monaco
ART&DESIGN FOR ALL, Shanghai, China
Criss-Cross” – Artworks of Young Chinese Contemporary Artists from Long Collection, Long Museum, Shanghai, China
2013 2013 Datong International Sculpture Biennale, Datong, China
The Portrait of Space, Parkview Green Art, Beijing, China
TMAX Art Festival, Galaxy SOHO, Beijing
The 3rd China Sculpture Almanac Exhibition, National Center for the Performing Arts, Beijing, China
2012 Media Variegations, Asian Art Works, Beijing, China
B-Side Multi-Media Festival, Portland, UK
Sculpt China – CAFA Sculpture Retrospective Exhibition, CAFA Sculpture Center, Beijing, China
2011 Pure Views, The 2011 Chengdu Biennale, East Chengdu Music Park, Sichuan, China
Polyphony, Huashan Art District, Taipei
The Future is Already Here -《hotspot》The Fourth Year Anniversary, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
2010 Post Traditions: Enlarge the Carve – The Fourth Shanghai Duolun Youth Art Exhibition, Shang Hai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
The Right to Protest, On the Seam – Social Political Contemporary Art Museum, Jerusalem
Asian Landmark-Toyota Art Project, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2009 Fresh Vision – The Contemporary Young Artists Invites the Exhibition, Su Zhou Art Museum, Su Zhou, China
The Morn of Spring-Young Artists Group Exhibition, New Age Gallery, Beijing, China
2008 ACAF 2008, New York, USA
Declaration of the Only Child – Group Exhibition of New Generation Artists Born After The Year 1970, New Age Gallery, Beijing, China
Multiple Realities, F2 Gallery, Beijing, China
CHINA GOLD – Musée Maillol, Paris, France
New Age • New Blending – New Generation Chinese and Indonesian Artist Exchange Exhibition, Edwin Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia/ New Age Gallery, Beijing, China
Make it New – The Inaugural Group Exhibition of Gallery 49, Gallery 49, Beijing, China
2006 Out of Order, F2 Gallery, Beijing, China
DF2 Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2001 Huge Apartment Group Exhibition, Shenyang, China PRIZE
2009 Inspired Performance Journey, INFINITI Inspiration Grand Prize
4th Design For Sitting Competition 2009, Best Technique Prize
2005 LVMH Young Artists’ Award “Homage to the Impressionists” 2005
Collection
SUZHOU ART MUSEUM
SOVEREIGN ART FOUNDATION
MTR
PARKVIEW GROUP
NATIONAL CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
JIMEI UNIVERSITY
NANJING ARTS UNIVERSITY
LONG MUSEUM
SWIRE GROUP S
HANGHAI JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY