About Connie Zheng

Connie Zheng is a Chinese-born, interdisciplinary artist who is currently based out of Oakland, California. Her work moves between text, drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, and time-based media. She often works with maps, seeds, food, and environmental histories to convey themes surrounding diasporic place-making, and the potentials of collective imagining and collaboration to combat environmental issues. Her work has been exhibited and screened throughout the United States, including at the Berkeley Art Center (2023); Peabody Essex Museum, Salem (2023); Asian Art Museum, San Francisco (2021); and internationally at Sa Sa Art Projects, Phnom Penh (2023); SALT Beyoğlu, Istanbul (2022); and Framer Framed, Amsterdam (2021). Her work can be found in the public collections of the Kadist Foundation and the David Rumsey Map Center at Stanford University. Zheng has received various fellowships and grants from the Oak Spring Garden Foundation (2023), Puffin Foundation (2021), and Headlands Centre for the Arts (2020), among other organizations. She holds BAs in Economics and English from Brown University, Providence (2010), an MFA in Art Practice from the University of California, Berkeley (2019), and is currently a PhD student in Visual Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She co-facilitates an environmental justice reading group and is the Art Director for the Bay Area-based literary non-profit, Quiet Lightning.