ZHOU Meng

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As an artist/observer, his thinking logic is often constructed on the dialectic of transition and transformation of natural ecology and human heritage. He visualises the process of this discursive thinking using different mediums such as installation, video, painting and sculpture to explore our responsibilities or obligations as human beings in the face of culture and nature.

His creative process usually originates from an inherent curiosity about nature and all known worldly materials. He then restores, assembles, and polishes these stories, fossils, and fragments through traditional or modern crafts and artistic means. Accidents and serendipity always point the way to his creations. He sees every contact with materials as a journey of metamorphosis rather than a simple transformation of material form, and each layer of the work records the temperature and texture of a different story. He strives to use his work as a medium and a bridge to open up an immersive yet fictional scene in which he abstracts the relationship between human beings and their environment, both dependent and subversive. At the same time, he copies, pastes and edits the dream world and extracts fragments of myths, allowing the viewer to wander between the virtual and the real, between the inner spiritual and the outer material world.

In recent years, he has drawn on the myths, natural environments and folklore of different regions in his work, depicting traces more or less altered by different mainstream cultures. He thinks that as human beings, we have inherited the endless legacy and gifts of history since the beginning, and it is the spirit of those sages who have transcended the mundane but shared the world that has always inspired and nudged him. In the face of the current macro situation and individuals’ lives, we have to stay sober to recognise where we are now among all these conflicts.

Education
2016-2018 MA Moving image, Royal College of Arts, London, UK
2013-2016 BA Painting, Camberwell College of Arts, London, UK
Solo Exhibition
2025 Zhejiang Art Museum
2025 Espace Temps 2024 II Trovatore, BMCA, Munich, DE
2024 Vacuum, R Plus, Hangzhou, CN
2023 Incomplete Wonder,Nan Ke Gallery, Shanghai, CN
2018 Bafeng, Liangshe China, Shanghai, CN
2017 Overtone, Art Night, St George in the East, London, UK
2016 0.064g, OXO Tower Gallery, London, UK
Selected Exhibition
2024 Because I still Live, Tianmuli, Hangzhou, CN
Star Chart, West Bund Art and Design Fair, Shanghai, CN
Art Taipei, Yi Yun Gallery, Taipei, TW
Tokyo Gendai, Nanke Gallery, Tokyo, JP
Lunar Maria, W.Onespace, Shenzhen, CN
Until We Meet, Double Double Space, Beijing, CN
Can Thought Go On Without Body, Stilllife, New York, US
2023 There are no Winners, 021 Shanghai Art fair, Shanghai, CN
Evolution
Singularity, Nan Ke Gallery, Shanghai, CN
Autrement Dit La Vie, Liusa Wang Gallery, Paris, FR
Preconscious Landscape, Ainalaiyn Space, London, UK
Residency
2022/05 La Wayaka, Panama
2021/03 Chao Hotel, China
2020/10 Swatch Art Peace Hotel, China
2019/05 Chateau d’Orquevaux, France
2019/03 Colab: Body and Place, Historic Collection, England
2018/09 Cill Rialaig Residency, Ireland
Prize
2019 Arte Laguna Prize: Finalist
2017 Super Young Celeste Art Prize: Winner
2016 Cill Rialaig Residency Award: Winner
Interview
BAZAAR Art, Randian, Hi Art, ArtDBL, Radius, National Art, A8 Design Center(CN) Aesthetica Magazine, Elephant Magazine, PAD, The Nu Journal, etc