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ZhenZhen Zhong
ZhenZhen is an interdisciplinary artist who works in installation, kinetic sculpture, machines, video, drawing, sound, and photography. Her art practice and research deal with constructing semi-fictional scenarios engaging with a wide range of topics including post-globalization, global south, technology, and identity. Her latest work Women at Work was shown at UTA Artist Space in Los Angeles. She has recently been a member of the Goethe Institute fellowship program AI to Amplify. She participated in the 2021 Huayu Youth Art Award(Sanya, China) as a member of the artist collective — "44 Monthly”. Her project Built at Sea was selected and exhibited at Power Station of Arts in Shanghai.
Her design work seen in many international theater festivals, awarded films, and widespread commercial art concept videos and music videos. Including:
2023 Wuzhen Theater Festival Play Love Plays (Dir Jing Xiao), 2022 Wuzhen Theater Festival Revisiting the Tale of The Peach Blossom Fan (Dir Jing Xiao), Wuzhen Theater Festival Twins Paradox( Dir Rui Lv) and Beijing International Fringe Festival Upside Down(Dir. Xindi Chen) in 2021, Japan Top Indie Film Best Student Film Spring Start Today(Dir Siyuan Liu), 2020 Anaray Theater Festival Mrożek Shorts(Dir: Nan Zhang&Shaoyuan Tan), 77th Venice Film Festival Finis Terrae(Dr. Tommaso Frangini), Calarts Mod Theater Oedipus (Dr. Jesse Bonnell), 2019 Beijing International Fringe Festival Approximate (Dir. Ran Chen), LA Dance Project Commission work Something About Heads (Chore. Jinglin Liao), 2019 Festival Off D’Avignon & 2018 Beijing Fringe Festival Miss Understanding (Dir, Shuyi Liao), Guangdong Contemporary Dance Company & New Zealand Footnote Dance Company Mass Solitude (Chore. Sarah Foster), 2017 Beijing Fringe Festival & Shanghai International Dance Center Festival The Divine Sewing Machine (Dir. MengFan Wang), Beijing Queer Art Festival Selling Peanut (Dir: Yinan Li).
She received her MFA degree from California Institute of the Arts both majoring in Art & Tech and Costume Design. BFA in Art and Design in Central Academy of Fine Art in China.
Email: zhenzhenzhong.zzz@gmail.com
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