Zheng Yi

Zheng Yi, born in 1980 in Tianjin, currently lives and works in Beijing, graduated from the Chinese Painting Department of Tianjin Academy of Arts and Crafts in 2003.

Zheng Yi has made works about boxes since 2010. These works concern on personal memory, collective memory. Influenced by Surrealism, Assemblism and Minimalism, He tries to combine the spirit of substance with the experience of human life, which is the essential of “Zen” aestheics. He is now focusing on the public spaces of his works, and trying to build a bridge for conversation between “box” and viewers.