1969
Born in Wuqiang Hsien, Hebei Province, China
1991
Graduated from Beijing Technology Institute, Beijing, China
1991-Present 
Lives and works in Beijing, China.

Solo Exhibitions
2006
Under The Sun, Art Beijing 2006.
2005/2006
Liu Zheng, Survians, SOHO New Town, Beijing, China.
2005
Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, USA
2003
Liu Zheng, Rencontres d'Arles Photography Festival in Arles, France.
2002
Sagamihara City, 2nd Annual Asian Photo Festival, Sagamihara, Japan.
2nd Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, Shanxi  Province, China
2001
The Chinese, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
1998
Three Realms and The Chinese, Photo Gallery, Taipei.

Group Exhibitions
2006
Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany.
Spotlight 30 Ladies, Spotlight 30 Brands, Papertainer Museum, Seoul Olympic Park, Seoul, Korea.
Mahjong, Contemporary Chinese Art  from the Sigg Collection, Hamburg Kunsthall,  Germany.
Fever Variations, The 6th Gwangju Biennale 2006, Korea.
Beautiful suffeing: Photography and the Traffic in Pain, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Mass, U.S.A.
Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video From China, House of World Culture, Berlin, Germany.
The Chinese: Photography and Video From China, Stedelijk Museum's - Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands.
Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video From China, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
2005
Baroque and Neobaroque, DA2. Domus Artium, Salamanca, Spain.
Chinese Art at the Threshold of the New Millenium, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan.
Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video From China, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK.
About Beauty, House of World Culture, Berlin, Germany.
Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video From China, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, USA.
Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video From China, Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art and the Smart Museum at U.Chicago.
2004
Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, International Center of Photography, NY, USA.
The Chinese, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany.
Techniques of the Visible, 5th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China.
Me, Me, Me, Courtyard Gallery, Beijing, China.
Revolution, 798 Photo Gallery, Beijing, China.
FIAC, Paris, France
The Armory, NYC, USA
2003
Arsenale, curated by Fracesco Bonami 50th Venice Biennale.
Courtyard Gallery, FIAC 2003, Paris, France.
A Strange Heaven - Contemporary Chinese Photography, Galeri Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic.
Courtyard Gallery Artists Summer Group Exhibition, Beijing.
Courtyard Gallery, ARCO 03, Madrid, Spain.
Strangers: The First ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, International Center of Photography, New York.
Paris-Pekin, Miriam and Guy Ullens Collection Exposition, Espace Cardin, Paris, France.
2002
Reinterpretation: A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art, The 1st Guangzhou Triennale, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangdong, China
Guangd2nd Pingyao Intl. Photography Festival, Pingyao, China (World First Prize).
2001
A Man, A Woman, A Machine, The Center of Attention Gallery, London, UK.
Next Generation, Passage de Retz, Paris, France.
Photographie Contemporaine Chinoise, Loft Gallery, Paris, France.
1999
Love: Chinese Contemporary Photography & Video, Tachikawa Art Festival, Tokyo and New York.
Transience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of 20th Century, David & Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago.
1998
Contemporary Chinese Photography Stadtische, Kunstsammlungen chemnitz, Kunsthalle Darmstadt.
1997
Contemporary Chinese Photography, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin.

Bibliography
Maggio, Meg, "Interview with Liu Zheng". Asian Art News (July-August, 2002). 
The Chinese: Liu Zheng Monograph." Photographers International no.58 (2001).
Hung, Wu. "Photographing Deformity: Liu Zheng and His Photo Series 'My Countrymen', Public Culture, vol. 13, no. 3 (2001).  
Du magazine, Zurich, Issue No. 721, Nov. 2001  
"The Chinese: Liu Zheng Photographs". Beijing: Dragon Work, (2000).  .
Goodman, Jonathan. "Human, Demonic and Divine in the Photographs of Liu Zheng." Art on Paper Vol.4, no. 3 (Jan-Feb 2000).  
"China New Photo". Photographers International no. 41 (1998)

Public Collections
New Orleans Museum of Art, LA
International Center of Photography, New York
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
Smart Museum of Art, Chicago
Yale University Art Gallery 
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Miriam and Guy Ullens Collection, Switzerland
JGS, Inc
Sigg Collection, Switzerland
Five Person Exhibition, Beijing, China.