Born 1962, Beijing, P. R.china
Began studying China’s masterpieces in the 1980’s at the Imperial Palace Museum
Re-located to New York city August 1996
Experience
1986
Beijing Great land calligraphy and Painting Art School
Founder and president of one of China’s first private art schools
1989
Yuan Ming Yuan Artist’s Colony
Founder, with several other Beijing artists,of an artist’s colony located in Beijing’s
Haidian District (following June 4 th Incident)
1990
Great Wall Ming Dynasty Si Ma Tai Site
Completed more than 100 meters of Great Wall rubbing over three years
Re-Emergence of the Undiminished”
created a series of works for the reunification of the two Germany’s
1993
Binding the Lost Soul; Huge Explosion
A seventeen-day series of installation and performance art carried out on the
Great Wall (all domestic publicity banned by authorities)
2001
American Wasteland, performance art and related ink works created from 2001 to 2005 in New York City in reaction to 911
2004
4 year HuaShan Project. HuaShan is a famous Chinese taoist mountain. The artist studied taoist in natural environment with the monks. Using Daoist ideas to creat performance works Snow, praise of Mountain and related ink and calligraphy works.
2008
Performance works and video created in Tibet
Selected Exhibitions
2010
Natura contemporary Art Crossing Art Gallery Hillwood Art Museum Long Island University New York
2009
Over the Wall Contemporary Art Next Gallery New York
Chinese Sick Men Chinese contemporary Art Next Gallery New York
2008
Zhenglianjie Contemporary ink New York gfSpace
Chinese Traditions Reconfigured Amy Simon Fine Art Connecticut U.S.A.
21Century ink Academic Exhibition China National Art Gallery
Internal Injury 8 Artists Injury Assessment Reports
2007
Dragon’s Evolution Chinese Contemporary Photography China Square Gallery New York U.S.A.
Made in China Chinese Contemporary Art Louisiana Museum of Modern Art Humlebaek Denmark
the Israel Museum in Jerusalem China Onward The EstellaCollection Contemporary Art ,1966-2006
Against the Wall Contemporary Chinese Artists Corkin Gallery Torouto
Contemporary Chinese Art Hermes Gallery New York
China ’s Performance Photography Int Art Center Beijing
The Power of The Universe The Frontier of Contemporary Chinese Art Asia Art Center Beijing
2006
Albright –Knox Art Gallery, University at Buffalo Anderson Gallery and Center for the Arts New York U.S.A.
New Chinese Occidentalism-Chinese Contemporary Art in New York Ethan Cohen Fine Arts
East transplanted West CAS Gallery Kean University U.S.A.
2006,International Chinese live art festival Performance Art of Zheng Lianjie (video slide discussion ) Manchester English , ,
2005
The Wall Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art 2005-2006 Millennium Art Museum Beijing China
2004
Colgate.University Performance.Art.of.ZhengLianjie.(video slide discussion) U.S.A.
2003
SwarthmoreCollegePerformance.Art.of.ZhengLianjie.(video slide discussion) U.S.A
2002
Contemporary Ink Works by Zheng Lianjie (solo exhibition) Agama Gallery, New York, NY
Reappearing Exit IV: Performance Art of Zheng Lianjie (solo exhibition)
Asian American Arts Centre, New York, U.S.A.
Selected works of performance Art (exhibition/discussion)
The 2nd Annual International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China
The First Guangzhou Triennial, China (group exhibition/discussion), Guangzhou,China Performance Art of Zheng Lianjie (video slide discussion )
Columbia.University.(slided.iscussion) Performance Art of Zheng Lianjie (video slide discussion) U.S.A
2001
Reappearing Exit II: Performance Art of Zheng Lianjie (slide show/discussion), Beijing Artist Store House, Beijing, China
2001
Reappearing Exit III: Performance Art of Zheng Lianjie (slide show/discussion), Dongpo Village, Great Wall Si Ma Tai Site, China
2000
Conceptual Ink” (group exhibition), Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York, NY
2000
Documentation of Chinese Avant-Garde Art in the 90’s (group exhibition), Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
1998
Binding The Lost Souls;Huge Explosion (Video discussion), Harvard University Ye-ching Library
1996
Zheng Lianjie Recent Works (solo exhibition), Yellow Pavilion #50 Gallery, Beijing, China
1993
Modern Chinese Painting” (group exhibition), National Contemporary Art Society of Israel
1992
Contemporary Chinese Art”(group exhibition), Brussels Art Festival, Brussels, Belgium
China’s First International Art & Antiques Auction ” (3 works), 21st Century Hotel, Beijing, China
1991
Korea’s Ninth Annual International Art Exhibition, Seoul, Korea (Awarded First Prize)
1990
New Works by Zheng Lianjie and Huan Zi (two person exhibition), Sponsored by the Cultural Bureau of the British Embassy, Beijing
Ink Revolution (solo exhibition), Beijing Daqian Gallery, Beijing, China