ALEZA ZHENG

Casus Belli, 2025
Ink, mineral pigment, and oil on linen
16 x 20 inches; 40.64 × 50.8 cm
Fix Your Lamb, 2025
Oil on canvas
60 x 40 in inches; 152.4 x 101.6 cm.
Monsters They Come After Me, 2025
Oil on linen
16 x 20 inches; 40.64 × 50.8 cm
A Gigantic, 2025
Oil on canvas
72 x 48"; 182.88 cm x 121.92 cm
Better or Worse?, 2025
Oil on canvas
40 x 30 inches; 101.6 × 76.2 cm
Technē (In The Sky, Mirror and Stars), 2025
Oil on canvas
60 x 40 in inches; 152.4 x 101.6 cm.

Strife, 2025
Oil on canvas
60 x 72 inches; 152.4 x 182.88 cm

Divergence, 2024
Oil, dye pigment, canvas and silk
10 x 14 inches; 25.4 x 33.04 cm.
The Great Equalizer, 2025
Ink, oil, and sharpie on raw canvas
60 x 40 in inches; 152.4 x 101.6 cm.


What Tears Us Together, 2025
Hair, quail eggs, copper-electroplated tree branch
An Exertion of Presence Beyond Life, 2025
Hair, resin cast, contact lens, teddy bear
Installation view, Frieze, 2025
MakeRoom x APALAZZO Gallery, Seoul, South 
Installation view, Once Upon a Blue Moon
Bonian Space, Beijing, China
Installation view, Once Upon a Bue Moon, 2025
Bonian Space, Beijing
Installation view, Vanishing Point, 2024
Soot Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

 Aleza Zheng (born 1999, Shenyang, China) is an interdisciplinary artist working with oil, ink, linen, and silk. Animism and mimetic imagination are central to her practice, which uses childhood as an ontological framework to decode narratives and reveal underlying hierarchies and power structures. Through acts of world-making, she proposes alternative ways of being in relation to other forms in the universe—beyond instrumental rationality and production. Her anthropomorphized objects and figures employ empathy as a means to navigate disorientation, explore humanity, and invite a re-enchantment of the present world.

alezazheng@gmail.com
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Education

China Academy of Art
Independent Study in Guohua
2025

ArtCenter College of Design
BFA Illustration
2023

Solo

Across the Idyll
Shazar Gallery, Milan, Italy
2025


Curatorial 

Once Upon A Blue Moon
Bonian Space, Beijing, China
2025

Napkin Show
Los Angeles, USA
2024


Talks

In Conversation, AsiaSociety
Music Center, Los Angeles, USA
Selected Shows

Ritual of Holding: Through the Gateless Gate
Okusendō Gallery, Houston, Texas
2025

Into the Jungle
Sabbatikal, Santa Monica, USA 
2025

Frieze Seoul
Makeroom x Apallazo Gallery, Seoul, PRK
2025 

Myths in Making
Sabbatikal, Santa Monica, USA 
2025 

Artesantander
Shazar Gallery, Santander, Spain
2025 

Vanishing Point
SOOT Tokyo, Los Angeles, USA 
2024






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