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Artist Biography



B. 2001 Brooklyn, NY

    Mei Zheng (b. 2001, Sunset Park, NY) is a first-generation Fujianese American artist, arts + culture worker, and child of restaurateurs. Shaped by a “satellite” sensibility found through movement between New York City and Fujian, China, Mei's practice is guided by sensorial knowledge(s) inherited through family as a means of strengthening communion. Attentive to the intimacies and urgencies of our times, Zheng’s interdisciplinary practice spans social sculpture, culinary interventions, image-making and text. Through these gestures, they trace the residual and shifting imprints of their own transnational diasporic experience across migration, vernacular, and ritual, exploring how linguistic and cultural inheritances are continually negotiated and remade within the architectures of our everyday (Bohr & Tse, 2009).

    They hold an MA in Art Education from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and a BFA in Design from RISD. Mei has exhibited work internationally with FUGUE Gallery, Bungee Space, Accent Sisters and A Space Gallery, NY; Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA; Steinbeisser, Amsterdam, NL; RISD Museum, Providence, RI, amongst others. They also have featured writing in literary arts and food publications like MOLD Magazine and the RISD Museum.






Impromptu portrait: Ziare Greene (2024).
Mandarin trees from Awaji, Japan (2023).
Hondamachi, Kanazawa (2023).