Zheng Yuan, born in Lanzhou in 1988, lives and works in Beijing. Zheng received his MFA in Film, Video, New Media and Animation at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2015. His work addresses questions about image-based representations that embody the state of contemporary visual culture, history, and technology.

His recent solo project includes “Up in the Air”, Taikang Space, Beijing, 2017; “An Open Studio”, PRACTICE Space, New York, 2016. His works are also screened at film festivals including the 36th Kassel Dokfest, Kassel, 2019, the 65th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen, 2019; 55th Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, 2017; European Media Arts Festival, Osnabrueck, 2016; Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago, 2016, etc.