Cheng Xinhao
b.1985, Yunnan, Chinalives and works in Kunming (China)
Cheng Xinhao (b.1985 Yunnan, China) currently lives and works in Kunming, China. Cheng’s work is usually based on long-term field studies, centering around his hometown in Yunnan Province, China. Through videos, installations, photographs and texts, he personally investigates the polyphonic relationships between logic, discussions, knowledge, and the part that nature, society, and history play within them. In recent years, his long-term projects include "Strange Terrains, 2013-", "To the Ocean, 2018-" and “Tales about the South of Clouds, 2021-” etc.
His solo exhibitions include: Silver...and Other Elements, Contemporary at Blue Star (San Antonio, 2024) ； Floating Wood & Drowning Stone, Tabula Rasa Gallery (Beijing, 2021); The Fool's Gold, OCAT Shenzhen (Shenzhen, 2019); Three Depictions of a River, 1903 Space (Kunming, 2019).
Selected group exhibitions include: The Sounding Cast, XZ Space, (Beijing, 2026); A Call of All Beings: See You Tomorrow, Same Time, Same Place, Taichung Art Museum (Taichung, 2025); Louisiana's New Works, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Copenhagen, 2025); On the Waterfront, Gallery MAERZ (, 2025); 15th Shanghai Biennale “Does the Flowers Hear the Bee?", (Shanghai, 2025); Stay Connected: Art and China Since 2008, Tai Kwun Contemporary, (Hong Kong, 2025) ; Rural Eyes: Chinese Rural Photography Archives 1920s-2020s, Gaofan Photography Museum, Hangzhou, 2025；Why Look at Animals? A Case for the Rights of Non-Human Lives，EMΣT (Athens，2025); 15th Gwangju Biennale "Pansori, a soundscape of the 21st century" (Gwangju, 2024); STUDY II: Natural History, Alternative Knowledge and Deep Learning, ShanghART (Beijing, 2024); Go With the Flow, Fotografiska Shanghai (Shanghai, 2024); Nomads in the South: Rivers, Tunnels, Dampness and Constellations, Pingshan Art Museum (Shenzhen, 2023); The Open World, The third edition of the Thailand Biennale, Luke Golf Warehouse Huai Kiang (Chiang Rai, 2023); Art SG, Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre (Singapore, 2023); LOOP Fair 2023, Almanac Barcelona (Barcelona, 2023); The River We Share: From Lancang to Mekong, Inside-Out Musuem (Beijing, 2023); Walking China: Stories yet to be told, Institute of Contemporary Arts at NYU (Shanghai, 2023); In Between The Fields, Chun YangTai (Guangzhou, 2023); Living a Performance Artist’s Life, MadeIn Musuem (Shanghai, 2023); River Pulses, Border Flows, Times Museum (Guangzhou, 2022); The Language of Mushrooms: The Interspecies Internet, Contemporary Gallery Kunming (Kunming, 2022); I Recognized the World: Born in the 80s and 90s, MOCA Yinchuan (Yinchuan, 2021); An Archive: Seven Trails, Taikang Space (Beijing, 2020); Air Waste Health Water Energy Soil, Gleis 70 (Zurich, 2021); Re: Everything which exists under the sky, Gasworks (London, 2019).
Cheng is the recipient of several awards, including CIFRA “Marco Polo (Re)imagined”, “Bridging East and West” section, winner (2024), Abigail Cohen Fellowship (2017), the 6th Hou Dengke Documentary Photograph Award (2017), Author Book Award Arles (2017, shortlisted), Aperture First Photobook Award (2016), Shiseido Photography Award (2015), Three Shadows Photography Award (2015).
His works 24 Mails from the Railway (2020), Time from Different Sources: Images from Ciman Village (2017), and The Naming of a River (2016) were published by Jiazazhi Press. His work is also included in the permanent collection of Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Denmark).
website: www.chengxinhao.me
RELATED EXHIBITION
Becoming Creature, Group show, Tabula Rasa London, December 2022
Drowning Stone and Floating Wood, Solo show, Tabula Rasa Beijing, November 2021 PHOTO FAIRS SHANGHAI, 2019
TOUR LES CHEVAUX DU ROI, Tabula Rasa Beijing, 2018
PRESS
OCAT, REVIEW, 2020.08
JIAZAZHI, INTERVIEW, 2020.03
CONVERSAZIONE, INTERVIEW, 2019.08
ARTFORUM, REVIEW, 2019.07
JIAZAZHI, INTERVIEW, 2019.06
GASWORKS_CR, INTERVIEW, 2019.05
ARTFORUM, REVIEW, 2018.10
IT IS YOUR TURN, INTERVIEW, 2017.12
GUYU PROJECT, INTERVIEW, 2017.11
COLLECTOR DAILY, REVIEW, 2017.07
GUP MAGAZINE, INTERVIEW, 2017.04
JIAZAZHI, REPORT, 2017.03
WUJI INTERVIEW, INTERVIEW, 2017.02
NEW TALENTS, INTERVIEW, 2016.12
MILU, INTERVIEW, 2016.12
TUCHONG, INTERVIEW, 2016.03
ARTRON, INTERVIEW, 2015.04
FOTOTRUTH, INTERVIEW, 2015.04
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His solo exhibitions include: Silver...and Other Elements, Contemporary at Blue Star (San Antonio, 2024) ； Floating Wood & Drowning Stone, Tabula Rasa Gallery (Beijing, 2021); The Fool's Gold, OCAT Shenzhen (Shenzhen, 2019); Three Depictions of a River, 1903 Space (Kunming, 2019).
Selected group exhibitions include: The Sounding Cast, XZ Space, (Beijing, 2026); A Call of All Beings: See You Tomorrow, Same Time, Same Place, Taichung Art Museum (Taichung, 2025); Louisiana's New Works, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Copenhagen, 2025); On the Waterfront, Gallery MAERZ (, 2025); 15th Shanghai Biennale “Does the Flowers Hear the Bee?", (Shanghai, 2025); Stay Connected: Art and China Since 2008, Tai Kwun Contemporary, (Hong Kong, 2025) ; Rural Eyes: Chinese Rural Photography Archives 1920s-2020s, Gaofan Photography Museum, Hangzhou, 2025；Why Look at Animals? A Case for the Rights of Non-Human Lives，EMΣT (Athens，2025); 15th Gwangju Biennale "Pansori, a soundscape of the 21st century" (Gwangju, 2024); STUDY II: Natural History, Alternative Knowledge and Deep Learning, ShanghART (Beijing, 2024); Go With the Flow, Fotografiska Shanghai (Shanghai, 2024); Nomads in the South: Rivers, Tunnels, Dampness and Constellations, Pingshan Art Museum (Shenzhen, 2023); The Open World, The third edition of the Thailand Biennale, Luke Golf Warehouse Huai Kiang (Chiang Rai, 2023); Art SG, Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre (Singapore, 2023); LOOP Fair 2023, Almanac Barcelona (Barcelona, 2023); The River We Share: From Lancang to Mekong, Inside-Out Musuem (Beijing, 2023); Walking China: Stories yet to be told, Institute of Contemporary Arts at NYU (Shanghai, 2023); In Between The Fields, Chun YangTai (Guangzhou, 2023); Living a Performance Artist’s Life, MadeIn Musuem (Shanghai, 2023); River Pulses, Border Flows, Times Museum (Guangzhou, 2022); The Language of Mushrooms: The Interspecies Internet, Contemporary Gallery Kunming (Kunming, 2022); I Recognized the World: Born in the 80s and 90s, MOCA Yinchuan (Yinchuan, 2021); An Archive: Seven Trails, Taikang Space (Beijing, 2020); Air Waste Health Water Energy Soil, Gleis 70 (Zurich, 2021); Re: Everything which exists under the sky, Gasworks (London, 2019).
Cheng is the recipient of several awards, including CIFRA “Marco Polo (Re)imagined”, “Bridging East and West” section, winner (2024), Abigail Cohen Fellowship (2017), the 6th Hou Dengke Documentary Photograph Award (2017), Author Book Award Arles (2017, shortlisted), Aperture First Photobook Award (2016), Shiseido Photography Award (2015), Three Shadows Photography Award (2015).
His works 24 Mails from the Railway (2020), Time from Different Sources: Images from Ciman Village (2017), and The Naming of a River (2016) were published by Jiazazhi Press. His work is also included in the permanent collection of Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Denmark).
website: www.chengxinhao.me
Becoming Creature, Group show, Tabula Rasa London, December 2022
Drowning Stone and Floating Wood, Solo show, Tabula Rasa Beijing, November 2021 PHOTO FAIRS SHANGHAI, 2019
TOUR LES CHEVAUX DU ROI, Tabula Rasa Beijing, 2018
PRESS
OCAT, REVIEW, 2020.08
JIAZAZHI, INTERVIEW, 2020.03
CONVERSAZIONE, INTERVIEW, 2019.08
ARTFORUM, REVIEW, 2019.07
JIAZAZHI, INTERVIEW, 2019.06
GASWORKS_CR, INTERVIEW, 2019.05
ARTFORUM, REVIEW, 2018.10
IT IS YOUR TURN, INTERVIEW, 2017.12
GUYU PROJECT, INTERVIEW, 2017.11
COLLECTOR DAILY, REVIEW, 2017.07
GUP MAGAZINE, INTERVIEW, 2017.04
JIAZAZHI, REPORT, 2017.03
WUJI INTERVIEW, INTERVIEW, 2017.02
NEW TALENTS, INTERVIEW, 2016.12
MILU, INTERVIEW, 2016.12
TUCHONG, INTERVIEW, 2016.03
ARTRON, INTERVIEW, 2015.04
FOTOTRUTH, INTERVIEW, 2015.04
Download artist’s CV
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