Zheng Chongbin (b. 1961, Shanghai, China) is internationally recognised for his multimedia works, ranging from Chinese ink and acrylic paintings to Light and Space installations. Born in China and trained in ink painting, Zheng critically reinterprets the centuries-old pictorial genre of Chinese ink art by focusing on underlining ink’s material qualities and juxtaposing them with other material and ephemeral substances, be that acrylic paint or spatially conditioned light. Zheng has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for more than 30 years, and the region’s distinctive light and space environment is another important source of inspiration. 

Recent exhibitions include shows at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, the Hong Kong Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and Los Angeles County Museum of Art. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, Orange County Museum of Art, and M+ in Hong Kong.