Resume
Born in PR China. Lives and works in San Francisco.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
| 2012 | The Universe Is Built On A Plan... curated by Nicole Loeser, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, Germany |
| 2011 | Getting Territorial, curated by Simone Kraft, 25 Bilder Sekundo, Mannheim, Germany |
| IN YOU IS THE ILLUSION OF THE DAY, curated by Maya Kovskaya, Gallery Latitude 28, New Delhi, India | |
| Double Screen - Duan Yingmei and Michael Jizhong Zheng,WiE Kultur, Berilin, Germany | |
| Conceptualizing the Body - Gaze, Masquerading and Spectacle, Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, SUNY College at Old Westbury, New York | |
| Keeping An Eye on Surveillance, Performance Art Institute, San Francisco | |
| The End of the Dream, Mica Moca, Berlin, Germany | |
| I Just Want to Say Hello, artist residency at Lichtenberg Studios, Berlin, Germany | |
| I Look to the Sky and Miss the Ceiling, Gallery WHITECONCEPTS, Berlin, Germany (solo) | |
| Nomadic Settlers - Settled Nomads, Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien, Berlin, Germany | |
| Performing Politics, Performance and discussion organized by Art Practical, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco | |
| The End of Failure, Curated by Katrina Lamb, Louis V E.S.P, New York | |
| 2010 | The Distance Between You And Me (Kim Donaldson, Michael Zheng, Laura Fritz), Worksound Gallery, Portland, Oregon |
| Group Stand, uninvited performance at an opening in SFMoMA, San Francisco | |
| Blocking, intervention performance in SFMoMA, San Francisco | |
| The Profession, Marina Abramovic Institute, commissioned by Steven Wolf Fine Arts, San Francisco | |
| Broken Lines (Mike Brodie, Lucinda Devlin, Nan Goldin, Michael Zheng), Curated by Nadia Ismail, Gallery Anna Klinkhammer, Düsseldorf, Germany | |
| Moves10 - Framing Motion, The Bluecoat, Liverpool, UK | |
| You see, I paint, the Program Gallery, Warsaw, Poland | |
| 2009 | Vancouver Biennale, Vancouver, Canada |
| Christmas Palm, Freies Museum, Berlin, Germany | |
| error:%/?/art, Warszawa Gallery and Galeria Beznadziejna, Warsaw, Poland | |
| The whole place is dark and we see, Wroclaw, Poland | |
| Cou-Huo, Beijing, China | |
| imPOSSIBLE!, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery and MISSION 17, San Francisco | |
| Documentaries of Chinese Performance Art, Macao Art Museum, Macao | |
| 2008 | Multiple Realities, F2 Gallery, Beijing We Remember the Sun, Walter and McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute 55 Days of Chinese Art in Valencia, The Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Spain |
| Crosscut – Humane slaughter act performance festival, SlaughterHouseSpace, Healdsburg, CA | |
| The Source, part of the 100 Performances for the Hole, The Garage, San Francisco | |
| 2007 | Kunstfilmtag, Künstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf, Germany Reincarnation, curated by Zheng Shengtian, Doris McCarthy Gallery at the University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada Vierwände Kunst (4 Walls Art Festival), Düsseldorf, Germany Play with Food, public performance at the Ateliers Höherweg e.V., Düsseldorf, Germany East-West Project, Espace 72, Dison, Verviers , Belgium |
| 2006 | Emerge 2006, GenArt, San Francisco, CA APAture, Kearny Street Workshop, San Francisco, CA Four on One - Curators Create, Artist Curates, four curators each curates Stephanie Syjuco, The Garage Biennale, San Francisco As the Butterfly Said to Chuang Tzu, Gallery MISSION17, San Francisco, CA (Catalog) (solo) From Lithuania, Artist Television Access, San Francisco, CA (solo) Close Calls, Headland Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA |
| 2005 | Art for Sale!, with the '9th Baltic Triennial of International
Art', ICA, London Officially Unofficial: Art from the Baltic Triennial for Sale!, ARTima Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania (solo) ISA Black Market Auction, Independent School of Art, San Francisco, CA ERNST Museum, Budapest, Hungary 2005 Portland Museum of Art Biennial, Portland, Maine (catalogue) CREAM from the Top, Arts Benicia, Benicia, CA San Francisco Art Institute MFA Show, San Francisco, CA (catalogue) |
| 2004 | MAGMA, Tenerife, Spain (catalogue) Murphy and Cadogan Fellowship Exhibition, juried by Courtney Fink, René de Guzman and Steve Seid, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA 21st National Juried Exhibition, Berkeley Art Center, curated by Heidi Zukerman Jocobson, CA Monumental, Southern Exposure, curated by Anne Walsh, San Francisco, CA Topographies, with the San Francisco Bureau of Urban Secrets, Walter and McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, CA “How to go from here…”, Balatonfured, Hungary Center of Europe, performance at the Geographical Center of Europe, Vilnius, Lithuania |
| 2003 | INPORT: International Video-Performance Festival, organized
by Gert Hatsukov, Tallinn, Estonia Stare, performance at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine One Minute Film/Video Festival, Toronto, Canada |
PROJECTS
| 2010 - | LiVE WORK [Curatorial project space], San Francisco |
| Artist For Hire - continual performance project |
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
| 2003 | Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine |
| 1999-2005 | San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA BFA, Sculpture; MFA, New Genres. |
| 1987 | Bachelor of Science, Tshinghua University, PR China |
| 1989 | Master of Science, Marquette University, Wisconsin |
| 1989-1999 | Computer Software Designer |
AWARDS AND HONORS
| 2010 | Emergency Grant, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York |
| Nominated for the Eureka Fellowship, Fleishhacker Foundation, San Francisco | |
| 2008 | Nominated for the Bay Area Now 5, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco |
| 2007 | Artist Residency, Ateliers Höherweg e. V., Düsseldorf, Germany Nominated for the SECA Award 2008, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA Finalist for the Artadia Award, San Francisco, CA |
| 2006 | Selected as the No.2 "Best Art Shows of 2005" by the Pravda Magazine, Lithuania. |
| 2005 | Nominated for the SECA Award 2006, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA Fellowship, Artists Residency at MacDowell Colony, New Hampshire Graduated from SFAI with Honor (MFA piece featured in school publication) |
| 2004 | MFA Merit Scholarship, San Francisco Art Institute, CA Murphy Fellowship, San Francisco Foundation, CA |
| 2003 | Fellowship, Artists Residency at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine |
PUBLICATIONS
| Anna Pulley, 'Making Out in Public: A Guerrilla Performance', The BayCitizen, March 30, 2011 Hou Hanru, Michael Zheng, ‘Objectivity, Absurdity, and Social Critique: A Conversation with Hou Hanru’, Yishu Magazine, September/October, 2009 Reyhan Harmanci, “'imPOSSIBLE!' shows young Chinese Artists”, San Francisco Chronicle Visual Arts Pick, Febueary 12, 2009 Urllike Merten, “Die Szene bebt!”, NRZ, September 5, Germany Pamela Broszat, “Kreativer Humus”, NRZ, September 10, Germany Von Marie Fleischhauer, “ Düsseldorfer Kunst aus dem Off”, Rheinische Post, September 6, Germany Reyhan Harmanci, "The Caretakers: 'Four on One'", San Francisco Chronicle, August 10, 2006 Michael Leaverton, "Curator Vs. Curator", SF Weekly, August 1, 2006 Clark Buckner, "The Artist, the Sage, and the Butterfly", catalog essay for exhibition “As the Butterfly Said to Chuang Tzu” at Mission 17, (also presented at the conference “Visual Intelligence and the Sense of Art” at Cal State Stanislaus and Mills College, Oakland), 2006 Scott Oliver, “Michael Zheng at Mission 17“, Shotgun Review, June 27, 2006 Colin Berry, “Michael Zheng at Mission 17“, Artweek, September, 2006 Terri Cohn, “Michael Zheng at Mission 17“, Sculpture, March, 2007 Colin Berry, Artweek, p.13-14, October 2005 Jolanta Proskute, Lietuvos Zinios , p.14, September 30, 2005, Lithuania Milda Kuizinaite, Lietuvos Rytas, Sostine p.8, September 29, 2005, Lithuania Maggie Knowles , “Home Videos – The 2005 Biennial”, The Portland Phoenix, Issue April 8 – 14, 2005. Lucy Martin, “Michael Zheng's Banners", Inside San Francisco Art Institute, May 27, 2005 Vol. 1 No. 4. Yin-Ju Chen, Artists Magazine, June, 2005, Taiwan |
OTHER ACTIVITIES
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Panelist, “China's Next Generation”, with Orville Schell, Michael Zhao, and Xiao Qiang, moderated by Scott Shafer, Commonwealth Club, broadcast on NPR on September 23, San Francisco, 2005 Guest lecturer, California College of Art, 2010 Juror, Diego Rivera Gallery year round submission, San Francisco Art Institute, 2010 |
COLLECTION
| Macao Art Museum |