Zhenchen Liu was born in 1976 in Shanghai, China. After graduating from the Shanghai University Fine Arts College in 2000 and the Villa Arson (Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Art de Nice) in 2005, Liu received a “Post-Diplôme” at Le Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporains, studying painting and video arts. His works focus on the postmodern urban experience, and in his Panacea paintings series, Liu is searching for healing through reconnection to nature and the usage of medicinal plants.

Liu has exhibited at major biennales nationally and internationally, including at Biennale de Belleville, Paris, France; Biennale Internationaled'ArtContemporain Chinois, Montpellier, France; Biennale de L'imageenmouvement, Geneva, Switzerland; Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China; Biennial of Video and New Media, Santiago, Chile; International Triennial of Contemporary Art, National Gallery, Prague; and art fair HEAT, Paris, France. He has held exhibitions at Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France; Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Museum of Contemporary Art, Marseille, France; Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany; Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea; Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, South Korea; National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan; Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China; and more. His works on film have been presented at numerous film festivals including Kassel Documentary Film & Video Festival, Kassel, Germany; Locarno International Film Festival, Locarno, Switzerland; Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany; transmediale, Berlin, Germany; among many others.

Liu’s works are in the permanent collections of the Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Maison européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France; Collection Départementaled'ArtContemporain de la Seine-Saint-Denis, Paris, France; Collection Neuflize Vie, Paris, France; and Domaine départemental de Chamarande, Chamarande, France. He is currently working between Paris, France and Shanghai, China.