Zheng Shengtian

Zheng Shengtian Biography

Zheng was born in China and graduated from the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou. For more than thirty years, he worked at his alma mater as Professor and Chair of the Oil Painting Department. He was also a visiting professor at the University of Minnesota and at San Diego State University in the 1980s. Zheng has immigrated to Canada since 1990. From 1996 to 2000, he was the Secretary of the Annie Wong Art Foundation and Director of Art Beatus Gallery in Vancouver. He has been the Managing Editor of Yishu – Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, the only English language magazine on contemporary Chinese art since 2002. He is also a founding member and Board Director of Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art since 1999. As an independent curator, he has organized and curated numerous exhibitions including Jiangnan - Modern and Contemporary Chinese Art Exhibitions (Vancouver), The Art of Proletarian Cultural Revolution (Vancouver, Toronto, Winnipeg), Shanghai Modern (Munich, Kiel), the 2004 Shanghai Biennale (Shanghai), China Trade (Vancouver), Reincarnation (Toronto) and recently, Art and China’ Revolution (New York). He is currently working on the Vancouver Biennale as a Senior Curator for Asia. Zheng is a frequent contributor to periodicals and catalogues of contemporary Chinese and Asian art.

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