鄭重賓 流動的尺寸　Zheng Chongbin: Dimension and Flow

SHIBUNKAKU is privileged to announce our upcoming solo exhibition of artworks by Zheng Chongbin, one of the most important contemporary artists in Asia who continues to hold the classical Chinese ink tradition and Western pictorial abstraction in productive mutual tension.

This collaboration marks an important milestone as it will be Zheng’s first showcase in Japan. The artist’s installation project, Liquid Space, a three-dimensional wall sculpture mounted on custom-made honeycomb-aluminum panels, allows to experience Zheng’s integration of the light and space in the artist’s installation practice. Liquid Space will be displayed at Ryōsokuin, a subtemple of Kenninji, the oldest Zen temple in Kyoto, in accordance with Zheng’s passion about Japanese Zen and its inextricable links to his works.

Biography

1961
Born in Shanghai, China. Presently lives in San Francisco and Shanghai

EDUCATION

1991
MFA San Francisco Art Institute, U.S.A.

1984
BFA Chinese Painting Department, Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now China Academy of Art), Hangzhou, China

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2018
Zheng Chongbin: Walking Penumbra, Ink Studio, Beijing, China

2017
Zheng Chongbin: Clusters of Memory, Asia Society Texas Center, Houston, U.S.A.

2016
The Pacific Project: Zheng Chongbin, Orange County Museum of Art, California,U.S.A.
Structures, Sotheby’s S|2, Hongkong S.A.R, China

2015
Zheng Chongbin: Wall of Skies, Ink Studio, Beijing, China

2014
The Matter Becomes Form: Zheng Chongbin and His Ink Media, Asia Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan

2013
Zheng Chongbin: Impulse, Matter, Form, Ink Studio, Beijing, China

2012
Ink Phenomenon: Objects of Perception, Flo Peters Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
Black Wall / White Space, Hong Kong Arts Center, Hong Kong S.A.R., China

2011
White Ink: Fresharp Artists’ Series, Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Obtrusive / Elusive: Recent Ink Work of Zheng Chongbin, Haines Gallery,
San Francisco, U.S.A.

2010
ZHENG CHONGBIN: Emergent, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Singapore

1990
Humanism in the Arts, Montgomery Gallery, San Francisco, U.S.A.

1988
Chongbin Zheng, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019
4,000 Years of Chinese Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA, U.S.A.

2018
Chimeric Landscape featured in the inauguration of Art on theMART
(Chicago’s city public art project), Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Post-Brushwork Era: Chinese Landscapes, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou,China
Ink Worlds: Contemporary Chinese Painting from the Collection of Akiko Yamazaki and Jerry Yang, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, CA, U.S.A.

2017
The Weight of Lightness, M+ Museum, Hong Kong S.A.R., China
Streams and Mountains without End: Landscape Traditions of China,
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, U.S.A.
Chinese Contemporary Art: New Acquisitions for the Daimler Art Collection,
Daimler Art Collection, Stuttgart-Möhringen, Germany

2016
Turbulence exhibited in Chinese art galleries, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles, U.S.A.
Why Not Ask Again, 11th Shanghai Biennale, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
Shan Shui Within, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China

2015
Personal Structures: Crossing Borders, European Cultural Centre Palazzo Bembo and Palazzo Mora, Venice, Italy
From a Poem to the Sunset: Daimler Art Collection, Daimler Contemporary Berlin, Berlin, Germany

2014
A Fragment in the Course of Time: Landscape of Chinese Ink Art in 1980s,
Himalayas Museum, Shanghai, China

2013
Ink Painting in the United States, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China
Personal Structures: Culture, Mind, Becoming, a collateral event of the 55th Venice Biennale, Palazzo Mora, Venice, Italy
Beyond Tradition: Chinese Contemporary Ink, Christie’s New York, New York, U.S.A.

2012
Ink: The Art of China, Saatchi Gallery, London, U.K.
China’s Imperial Modern: The Painter’s Craft, University of Alberta Museums, Edmonton, Canada
Ink Limit, DADE Art Center M50, Shanghai, China

2011
N Minutes Video Art Festival: Urban Skin, organized by March Art Production, venues throughout Shanghai, China

2010
The Third Taipei International Modern Ink Painting Biennial, Taipei, Taiwan
Shanghai: Art of the City, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, U.S.A.

2009
Calligraffiti: Writing in Contemporary Chinese and Latino Art, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, U.S.A.
Contemporary Ink Painting: Shanghai New Ink Painting Art Exhibition,
Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China

2008
21st Century Contemporary Ink, China National Art Institute, Beijing, China
International Contemporary Ink Art Show, Busan Museum of Modern Art, Busan,South Korea

1999
From Chinese Ink to Abstraction, Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco, Francisco, U.S.A.

1994
Cultural Identities and Immigration: Changing Images of America in the 90’s, Oliver Arts Center, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, U.S.A.

1993
Beyond the Written Word, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, CA, U.S.A.

1988
Chinese Painting Exhibition, Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg, Germany

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

British Museum, London
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
Brooklyn Museum, New York
Orange County Museum of Art, California
Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
Daimler Art Collection, Berlin
DSL Collection, Paris, France
M+ Museum, Hong Kong S.A.R.