Zhengyu Zhong

钟正妤



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Pearl Highway
Only when pressed
Long Season II
Long Season I
Like a salmon moving through shallow water
(让他轻轻抖动像鲑鱼通过浅滩)
The Folded Body
Silver Creek Spinner
WYSIWYG
Selected Painting
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Degree Show 2026                    













Pearl Highway
Found wooden shelving unit, hand-stitched ceiling-leak diverter, 16 mmPVC pipe, glasscontainer, found metal container, handmade copper freshwater mussel shell, stone, pearls, raw silk
Variable size
2026        

















Only when pressed
Kozo paper, pearls
2025
        





 

 


 
Long Season II
Steel, wax, pearl
Variable size
2026                                                               

Long Season I
Raw silk, steel shelves,  cocoons
Variable size
2026





                   Like a salmon moving through shallow water
(让他轻轻抖动像鲑鱼通过浅滩)
      heat-transfer print on raw silk, rocks
2026









The Folded Body
Kozo paper, pearls
2025


        







 
Film photography by Yeeun Kim

 
Silver Creek Spinner
mixed material
2025

 

                          

                                                                                                                                       

                     

                             
       

       

                                                                                                                                                                 

                 
                                                     




WYSIWYG
Video, sand, pearls, fishing line, fabric, branch
2025





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Zhengyu Zhong (b. 2000, China) works across installation, sculpture, painting, and moving image. Her practice often begins with bodily or material processes that slowly shift over time, focusing on unstable states where boundaries between inside and outside, beauty and discomfort, or value and contamination become unclear. Using materials such as pearls, raw silk, wax, and metal, she is interested in structures and meanings that emerge through accumulation, pressure, and gradual transformation.

Education
2024- 
MFA Fine art, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
2019-2023 
BFA Experimental Art, Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, Tianjing, China


Awards
Academic Merit Scholarship, Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, China, 2020–2023


Selected Exhibition
Winter Syndrome, Summer Regimen, Sample Stage, Shanghai, China, 2026
Goldsmiths MFA Fine Art Degree Show, Ben Pimlott Building, London, UK, 2026
The Space Between, hARTslane Gallery, London, UK, 2026
Echoes of Stillness, The Handbag Factory, London, UK, 2025
Hidden at Arm’s Length, AMP Gallery, London, UK, 2025
Degree Show, Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts, Tianjin, China, 2023

JIANGHU – Contemporary Young Artist Invitation Exhibition, Tianjin Binhai Art Museum, Tianjin, China, 2021 (collaborative work)