Shi Zheng (born in 1990) is an artist based in Shanghai and New York. Shi's artistic creations range from audio-visual installations, digital music and live performance, demonstrating the artist's ongoing interest in simulation and "machine vision". Shi further embodies his reflection on the philosophy of technology, digital voyage and "latent time" by extending the audience's visual and audio experience.

Apart from individual creation, Shi Zheng also collaborates with other outstanding artists in various fields. In 2013, artistic group RMBit was founded by Shi Zheng in conjunction with Nenghuo, Wang Zhipeng, and Weng Wei with a focus on the current context of social media. Both Shi and Nenghuo are the members of the Audio-Visual performance group OSC (Open Super Control).

Shi Zheng’s individual and cooperated works have been presented in a wide range of museums, art institutions and media art festivals home and abroad, including TANK Shanghai, Sifang Art Museum, MOCA Yinchuan, Sound Art China, Beijing Biennial, FILE Electronic Language International Festival, Ars Electronica, Institute of Contemporary Arts London, Castello di Rivara, The Lumen Prize, Shanghai 21st Century Minsheng Art Museum and OCT Contemporary Art Terminal Shenzhen.

Shi Zheng holds a B.A. from China Academy of Art and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Levitation: Slothful Machine
Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, CN
Jul. 22 - Oct. 16, 2022

Sandbox
AIKE, Shanghai, CN
Jun. 26 - Jul. 24, 2021

Embers
Migrant Bird Space, Berlin, DE
Sep. 3 - Oct. 18, 2019

Frosty Morning
Oil Art Space, Ningbo, CN (curated by Liu Yihong)
Jul. 13 - Sep. 30, 2019

Wander-Circle
AIKE, Shanghai, CN (curated by Jiang Jun)
May. 26 - Jun. 29, 2018

2022

Beijing Biennial, Earth Heat Flow: The Visitor Who Returns to Solar Time
Melting in Time, Friendship Art Community, Beijing

How many times, I have left my everyday life
Hovering at the Convergence of Entrances and Exits, 69 ART CAMPUS, Beijing

Perfect Partner in the Near Future
Frosty Morning Daily, YUELAI Art Museum, Chongqing

The Pieces I Am
Melting in Time, UCCA Edge, Shanghai

The Archival Impulse: An Exercise in Counter-Narrative and Counter-Memory
Frosty Morning, AIKE, Shanghai

Bug World
Umwelt [sim], NEW ART CITY, Online

Beneath the Skin, Between the Machines
Frosty Morning Daily, How Art Museum, Shanghai


2021

The Circulation of Images
Monroe, Voyage UCCA Lab, Shanghai

The Long Cut
Free Fall Study III, Feral File, Online

Futurism of the Past - Contemplating the Past and Future in Chinese Contemporary Art
Visioning Versioning I, Beijing Exhibition Center, Beijing

Hong
Embers, TANK, Shanghai

Free Fall
Free Fall, Gazelli Art House, London


2020

the Final Prophet
Free Fall, Shenzhen Bay STArts Festival, Shenzhen

Enduring Movement II
Nimbus_[lux], AIKE, Shanghai

VR Library
Umwelt, Gazelli Art House, London

RESTART
Umwelt, Medientage Munich Festival, Online

The Exhibition of Annual of Contemporary Art of China 2019
Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai

Fortune Teller
Frosty Morning, Wanying Art Museum, Shijiazhuang

Bitclave
Free Fall, IMAGOKINETICS, Hangzhou (RMBit)

"C": Digital Interactive Art Experiment
The Imitator Will Dance, TANK Shanghai, Shanghai

Recommendations of Institutions
Perspective, Boxes Art Space, Shenzhen (RMBit)

Tree of Life, Online
Umwelt [sim], bitforms Gallery, New York

a2p (v2)
Frosty Morning [dataset], Online

Dark Water 3, From the Farthest Shore to the Holographic Undead
OSC_#V, Matt's Gallery Nine Elms, London (OSC)


2019

Phantom Fever-Experimental Art Performance
Embers, Frosty Morning & BINE, CHAO Art Center, Beijing

Core of Cores
Offset, AMAC Projects, Paris

Mind the Deep: Artificial Intelligence and Artistic Creation
Frosty Morning, McaM, Shanghai

WEST BUND ART & DESIGN: Dream Video
Frosty Morning BINE, West Bund Artistic Center, Shanghai

ASIA NOW: IRL Platform
Celestial Fable, Paris

FLAME HK
Celestial Fable, OVOLO Hotel, Hong Kong

"ENCOUNTER" Shanghai Urban Space Art Season 2019
Umwelt, Maoma Warehouse, Shanghai

Silhouette of the Sea
Visioning Versioning I, K11, Shanghai

The Atonal River
Nimbus_[lux], AIKE, Shanghai

3rd Annual NOFALSH
Frosty Morning prototype, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University

Artificial Landscape
Embers (8k), SOGO Causeway Bay, Hong Kong

New Art History 2000-2018 Chinese Contemporary Art
Frosty Morning prototype, MOCA Yinchuan, Yinchuan

Osmosis Audiovisual Media Festival
Offset, C-LAB, Taipei


2018

Cross Domain
Nimbus, Suzhou Jinji Lake Art Museum, Suzhou

The Same But Also Changed
Nimbus_[lux], Shanghai Exhibition Center, Shanghai

Immortal City
Embers, Binhai Cultural Center, Tianjin

New Video in China
Nimbus, OCT Anren, Chengdu

Nine Tomorrows
Offset, Powerlong Art Center, Hangzhou

SPITAL STAIRS
Celestial Fable, AIKE, Shanghai


2017

.zip UNZIP THE FUTURE
Embers, 3LD Art & Technology Center, New York

Clockenflap Festival
Embers, Hongkong

Amitabha, Boundless Buddha
Embers, Migrant Bird Space, Berlin

.zip FUTURE RHAPSODY
Embers, Today Art Museum, Beijing

Before Chaos
Offset, St John’s Church, Waterloo, London

China Remixed Initiative
Offset, Indiana University, Bloomington


2016

Shenzhen Media Art Festival
Nimbus, Shenzhen

Shanghai Biennale
Planet Chronicle, Power Station of Art, Shanghai

TAIFUN-offset
Offset & Nimbus, Dusseldorf

From Painting to Digital
Offset, Migrant Birds Space, Berlin

East Asia Moving, Screening
Offset,Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

UTOPIA & BEYOND
Nimbus, Castello di Rivara, Turin

San: AIKE Spring Project
Nimbus, AIKE-DELLARCO, Shanghai


2015

Meme City: Hacking Reality Media Art Festival
@, Hangzhou (RMBit)

NONFIGURATIVE
Offset, Shanghai 21st Century Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai

Jimei X Arles: East West Encounters International Photo Festival
Nimbus, Tan Kan Kee Art Center, Xiamen

Schizophonia: sonic alienation
Nimbus, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen

The Lumen Prize Top 100
Offset, The Lumen Prize Online Gallery

Ars Electronica
Offset, Electronic Theatre, Linz

The CAFAM Future Exhibition: Observer-Creator
Perspective, K11 Art Mall, Hong Kong (RMBit)

NAISSANCE 24’ Art Project
noPlanet [cn], Today Art Museum, Beijing

The CAFAM Future Exhibition: Observer-Creator
Perspective, CAFAM, Beijing (RMBit)


2014

Revolutions per minute: Sound Art China
Offset, City University of Hong Kong

+SEEING-
Offset, Grand Space, Beijing

FILE Electronic Language International Festival
Code:E, St. Paul (RMBit)


2013

Caissa Rising Artist-Exhibition for Nominated Students from Art Academy
Flâneur of the Virtual Landscape, Today Art Museum, Beijing

Sound Art China
Untitled, Shanghai

Green Box-Rehapping: The Space of Hedir-Reality
Flâneur of the Virtual Landscape , Hangzhou


2012

Ars Electronica
Calligraphy Mask, Future Media Lab, Linz (Collaboration with Tang Xiaodan)

Maker Carnival
Sound From Your Fingerprint, CMoDA, Beijing

2017

BPM: 127 Play Rec Party
Cloudburst, 696 Live, Shanghai


2016

Off Script#pilot
OSC_#3 + OSC_#V, Loopy, Hangzhou (OSC)

Welcome to Viceland
OSC_#V, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Beijing, Shanghai (OSC)


2015

Meme City: Hacking Realities Media Art Festival
OSC_#3, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou (OSC)

Schizophonia: Live Performance
OSC_#2, B10 Live, Shenzhen (OSC)

The CAFAM Future Exhibition: Observer-Creator
Code:E + OSC_#1 3D Edition, CAFAM, Beijing (RMBit)


2014

Revolutions per minute: Sound Art China
@ + Perspective, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (RMBit)

Cyplosion++
@ + Perspective , The Wall, Taipei (RMBit)

West Bund Art and Design
Perspective, West Bund Art Center, Shanghai (RMBit)

BUS One Year Anniversary
OSC_#1, Hangzhou (RMBit)


2013

New Bit Media Festival
Code:E, Underwater Cafe, Hangzhou (RMBit)

Revolutions per minute: Sound Art China
@, West Bund, Shanghai (RMBit)


2012

SONART 4.5
Untitled, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou


2011

Bauhaus Theater + SONART 4.4
TV Man, China Academy of Art , Hangzhou