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 narrated hierarchies and anthropocentric frameworks. 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.
Her work has been included in group exhibitions internationally, most recently at Frieze Seoul (2025) with Make Room x Apalazzo Gallery and Artesantander (2025) with Shazar Gallery in Spain.
alezazheng@gmail.com
Education
China Academy of Art
Independent Study in Guohua
2025
ArtCenter College of Design
BFA Illustration
2023
Curatorial
Once Upon A Blue Moon
Bonian Space, Beijing, China
2025
Talks
In Conversation, AsiaSociety
Music Center, Los Angeles, USA
Selected Shows
Forthcoming
Make Room, Los Angeles
2026
Forthcoming
Shazar Gallery at NADA, New York, USA
2026
Ritual of Holding: Through the Gateless Gate
Okusendō, Houston, USA
2025
Across the Idyll
Shazar Gallery, Milan, Italy
2025
Vanishing Point
SOOT Tokyo, Los Angeles, USA
2024
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