Connie Zheng

Connie Zheng is a Chinese-born artist, writer, and filmmaker currently based out of Oakland, California. She is interested in the diverse manifestations of propaganda, the possibilities for expanding the language of climate apocalypse, and the racialization of contamination narratives, as told through visual and text-based forms. She has exhibited work in venues around the United States, including the Asian Art Museum (San Francisco, CA) and AIR Gallery (New York, NY). She has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the Headlands Center for the Arts, the Vermont Studio Center, and ACRE, as well as a Collection Fellowship from KADIST, and will be publishing a chapter in the upcoming Routledge Companion to Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Climate Change (forthcoming in early 2021). She received an MFA in Art Practice from the University of California — Berkeley and BAs in Economics and English from Brown University. She is currently a PhD candidate in Visual Studies at the University of California — Santa Cruz, where she is the recipient of a Chancellor's Award.