AWARDS AND HONORS
2021
Special Jury's Award, OSTEN Biennial of Drawing Skopje in N Macedonia
2017
Artist in Residence, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
2012, 2008, 2005
Nominated for SECA Award, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
2010
Emergency Grant, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York
2008
Nominated for Bay Area Now 5, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
2007
Finalist for Artadia Award, San Francisco, CA
Artist Residency, Ateliers Höherweg e. V., Düsseldorf, Germany
2006
No.2 of "10 Best Art Shows of 2005", Pravda Magazine, Lithuania.
2005
Fellowship/Residency, MacDowell Colony, New Hampshire
Graduated from SFAI with Honor, (Featured in the SFAI's publication)
2003
Fellowship/Residency, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS (download complete list here.)
2023
Artist in Residence, b minor residency, Arizona
In the Present Moment, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Canada (delayed)
2022
A Tree Is A Tree, David Ireland’s House 500 Capp Street Foundation, San Francisco (solo, catalogue)
2021
OSTEN Biennial of Drawing Skopje , National Gallery of N. Macedonia "Mala Stanica", The Republic of North Macedonia (Special Jury's Award)
Learning ● Diamond Sutra, a convening organized by the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Canada (postponed due to the pandemic) (solo)
2020
The de Young Open , deYoung Museum, San Francisco
2019
In the present Moment, Buddhism and Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria and University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada (solo performance)
2017
Harun Faroki Tribute Show, curated by Dr. Bonaventure NdiKung et al, SAVVY Contempory, Berlin, Germany
THE WINDING PATH, Gallery Whiteconcepts, Berlin, Germany (solo)
2016
Hidden View, Offenbach, Germany
The Increasing Presence of Presence in Contemporary Art, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany (accompanying book)
2015
RCA Secret 2015, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2014
What Do You See With Your Eyes Closed? 6-month performance project with Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, USA
2013
All Good Things... (Paul Kos, Allan Kaprow, et al.) SOMArts, San Francisco, USA
Shamanic Soul Constellations, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA
The Long Conversation (Paul Kos, Tony Labat, Job Rubin, et al.) Southern Exposure, San Francisco, USA (catalogue)
Daddy YOU can't make a cactus...this has been done! Grimmuseum, Berlin, Germany
2012
The Artist is Elsewhere, Zero1 Biennial, Performance Art Institute, San Francisco
Inward Gazes - Documentaries of Chinese Performance Art 2012, Macao Museum of Art, Macao, China (catalog)
Positioning Osmotic Impulses, a project of SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, Germany (catalog)
92YTribeca: Skowhegan Alumni Exhibitions, 92YTRIBECA, New York
2011
IN YOU IS THE ILLUSION OF THE DAY, curated by Maya Kovskaya, Gallery Latitude 28, New Delhi, India
Double Screen - Duan Yingmei and Michael Jizhong Zheng,WiE Kultur, Berilin, Germany (solo)
Keeping An Eye on Surveillance, Performance Art Institute, San Francisco
I Look to the Sky and Miss the Ceiling, Gallery WHITECONCEPTS, Berlin, Germany (solo)
Nomadic Settlers - Settled Nomads, Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien, Berlin, Germany (catalog)
Performing Politics, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco
2010
Blocking Robert Rauschenberg For One Day, intervention performance in SFMoMA, San Francisco
The Profession, Marina Abramovic Institute West, commissioned by Steven Wolf Fine Arts, San Francisco (solo)
Broken Lines (Mike Brodie, Lucinda Devlin, Nan Goldin, Michael Zheng), Curated by Nadia Ismail, Gallery Anna Klinkhammer, Düsseldorf, Germany
2009
Vancouver Biennale, curated by Zheng Shengtian, Vancouver, Canada (catalog)
imPOSSIBLE!, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery and MISSION 17, San Francisco (catalog)
2008
Multiple Realities, curated by Maya Kovskaya, F2 Gallery, Beijing (catalog)
We Remember the Sun, Walter and McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute (Director: Hou Hanru)
55 Days of Chinese Art in Valencia, The Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Spain (catalog)
2007
Kunstfilmtag, Künstlerverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf, Germany (catalog)
Reincarnation, curated by Zheng Shengtian, Doris McCarthy Gallery at the University of Toronto Scarborough, Canada
2006
Emerge 2006, GenArt, San Francisco, CA
4 on 1 - four curators each curates Stephanie Syjuco, The Garage Biennale, San Francisco
As the Butterfly Said to Chuang Tzu, Gallery MISSION17, San Francisco, CA (Catalog) (solo)
Close Calls, Headland Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
1990-2000
Computer software engineer, various startup companies in Silicon Valley.
2005
2004
Art for Sale!, with the '9th Baltic Triennial of International Art', ICA, London
Portland Museum of Art Biennial, Portland, Maine (catalogue)
Monumental, Southern Exposure, curated by Anne Walsh, San Francisco, CA
2023
OTHER ACTIVITIES
2019, 2015, 2005
Guest lecturer, San Francisco Art Institute
Guest lecturer, San Francisco Art Institute
2017
Lecture, Ch’an (Zen) Buddhism and Contemporary Art, Silicon Valley Asian Art Center, CA
2015
Juror (with Julie Lazar and Catherine Clark), Embark Gallery
2010
Juror, Diego Rivera Gallery year round submission, San Francisco Art Institute
Guest lecturer, California College of Art
2006
Juror, ANTI/SOCIAL, MISSION 17's Third Annual Juried Exhibition, with Clark Buckner, Cheryl Meeker, and Elaine Santos
2005
Panelist, “China's Next Generation”, with Orville Schell (Dean of School of Journalism/UC Berkeley), Michael Zhao, and Xiao Qiang, moderated by Scott Shafer, Commonwealth Club, broadcast on NPR on September 23, San Francisco, 2005
PUBLICATIONS
(See the 'Texts' Tab)
GALLERY REPRESENTATION
WHITECONCEPTS Gallery, Berlin, Germany