Shi Zheng (born in 1990) is an artist based in Shanghai. Shi's artistic creations range from audio-visual installations, digital music and live performance, demonstrating the artist's ongoing interest in simulation and "machine vision". Shi further embodies his reflection on the philosophy of technology, digital voyage and "latent time" by extending the audience's visual and audio experience.
Apart from individual creation, Shi Zheng also collaborates with other outstanding artists in various fields. In 2013, artistic group RMBit was founded by Shi Zheng in conjunction with Nenghuo, Wang Zhipeng and Weng Wei with the focus on current context of social media. Both Shi and Nenghuo are the members of an audio-visual performance group OSC (Open Super Control).
Shi Zheng's individual and cooperated works have been presented in a wide range of museums, art institutions and media art festivals home and abroad, including Ars Electronica, Shanghai Biennale, Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), M+, TANK Shanghai, BY ART MATTERS, The Lumen Prize, Sifang Art Museum, Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum, Sound Art China, Castello di Rivara Contemporary Art Center.
Shi Zheng holds a B.A. from China Academy of Art and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Latent Sea: Blue Dream
MUD Gallery, Shanghai, CN (curated by Iris Long)
Nov. 07, 2025 - Feb. 07, 2026
Roundabout
The Shophouse, Hong Kong, CN
Jan. 13 - Feb. 18, 2024
Reflection of Time
MUD Gallery, Shanghai, CN (curated by Iris Long)
Sep. 2 - Oct. 10, 2023
Levitation: Slothful Machine
Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, CN
Jul. 22 - Oct. 16, 2022
Sandbox
AIKE, Shanghai, CN
Jun. 26 - Jul. 24, 2021
Embers
Migrant Bird Space, Berlin, DE
Sep. 3 - Oct. 18, 2019
Frosty Morning
Oil Art Space, Ningbo, CN (curated by Liu Yihong)
Jul. 13 - Sep. 30, 2019
Wander-Circle
AIKE, Shanghai, CN (curated by Jiang Jun)
May. 26 - Jun. 29, 2018
2026
New Earth
Tearning in Time #11, BANK Gallery, Shanghai
2025
SPACE: Internal Illuminations
Fragmented Echoes, Fotografiska, Shanghai
NOV. 10, 2001
Frosty Morning & Hovering at the Convergence of Entrances and Exits, ZiWU, Shanghai
Still Off
Frosty Morning Daily, Hol Platform, Shanghai
Synthetic Reality
Celestial Fable & Visioning Versioning, Interface Art Lab, Guangzhou
PromptoScape: 2025 Document.ai
Tearing in Time, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai
Asian Avant-Garde Film Festival
Melting in Time #1, M+, Hong Kong
OVERRIDE EXPO Chicago
Embers & Melting in Time #2, Chicago
Birth of Poetry
Celestial Fable, The Shophouse, Hong Kong
Face Recognition
Free Fall & Nice Dream, Blunt Society, Shanghai
Morning Stars, Screening
Hovering at the Convergence of Entrance and Exits, HOW Art Museum, Shanghai
2024
ENNOVA Art Biennale
Embers & Free Fall, ENNOVA Art Museum, Langfang
Wuhan Biennale
Melting in Time #1, Wuhan Art Museum, Wuhan
Pattern Maker’s Maze
Frosty Morning BINE, Lisson Gallery, Shanghai
Imagine Today
Frosty Morning Prototype, MUD Gallery, Shanghai
Cosmos Archaeology
Fragmented Echoes & Planet Chronicle, Shanghai Astronomy Museum, Shanghai
The Third Nature
Visioning Versioning, A4X Art Center, Chengdu
2023
Seaward
Melting in Time #1 & From the Film Set of Alphaville #2, TAG Art Museum, Qingdao
Motion is Action, 35 Years of Chinese Media Art
Melting in Time #1, By Art Matters, Hangzhou
Us, amid Nature and After Nature
Frosty Morning & Frosty Morning Daily, Art Museum of GAFA, Guangzhou
Reverberation Qingshan Art Season
Visioning Versioning, Hangzhou
Longing: Anthem of Digital Sadness
Free Fall & Nice Dream, Guangdong Contemporary Art Center, Guangdong
Demonstration: The Art of Decision-Making Techniques
From the Film Set of Alphaville & Melting in Time #1, Fosun Foundation, Shanghai
Visions Come True
Free Fall, chi K11 Art Museum, Shanghai
2022
Beijing Biennial, Earth Heat Flow: The Visitor Who Returns to Solar Time
Melting in Time #1, Friendship Art Community, Beijing
How many times, I have left my everyday life
Hovering at the Convergence of Entrances and Exits, 69 ART CAMPUS, Beijing
Perfect Partner in the Near Future
Frosty Morning Daily, YUELAI Art Museum, Chongqing
The Pieces I Am
Melting in Time #1, UCCA Edge, Shanghai
The Archival Impulse: An Exercise in Counter-Narrative and Counter-Memory
Frosty Morning, AIKE, Shanghai
Bug World
Umwelt [sim], NEW ART CITY, Online
Beneath the Skin, Between the Machines
Frosty Morning Daily, How Art Museum, Shanghai
2021
The Circulation of Images
Monroe, Voyage UCCA Lab, Shanghai
The Long Cut
Free Fall Study III, Feral File, Online
Futurism of the Past - Contemplating the Past and Future in Chinese Contemporary Art
Visioning Versioning I, Beijing Exhibition Center, Beijing
Hong
Embers, TANK, Shanghai
Free Fall
Free Fall, Gazelli Art House, London
2020
The Final Prophet
Free Fall, Shenzhen Bay STArts Festival, Shenzhen
Enduring Movement II
Nimbus_[lux], AIKE, Shanghai
VR Library
Umwelt, Gazelli Art House, London
RESTART
Umwelt, Medientage Munich Festival, Online
The Exhibition of Annual of Contemporary Art of China 2019
Frosty Morning, Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
Fortune Teller
Frosty Morning, Wanying Art Museum, Shijiazhuang
Bitclave
Free Fall, IMAGOKINETICS, Hangzhou (RMBit)
"C": Digital Interactive Art Experiment
The Imitator Will Dance, TANK Shanghai, Shanghai
Recommendations of Institutions
Perspective, Boxes Art Space, Shenzhen (RMBit)
Tree of Life, Online
Umwelt [sim], bitforms Gallery, New York
a2p (v2)
Frosty Morning [dataset], Online
Dark Water 3, From the Farthest Shore to the Holographic Undead
OSC_#V, Matt's Gallery Nine Elms, London (OSC)
2019
Phantom Fever-Experimental Art Performance
Embers, Frosty Morning & BINE, CHAO Art Center, Beijing
Core of Cores
Offset, AMAC Projects, Paris
Mind the Deep: Artificial Intelligence and Artistic Creation
Frosty Morning, McaM, Shanghai
WEST BUND ART & DESIGN: Dream Video
Frosty Morning BINE, West Bund Artistic Center, Shanghai
ASIA NOW: IRL Platform
Celestial Fable, Paris
FLAME HK
Celestial Fable, OVOLO Hotel, Hong Kong
"ENCOUNTER" Shanghai Urban Space Art Season 2019
Umwelt, Maoma Warehouse, Shanghai
Silhouette of the Sea
Visioning Versioning I, K11, Shanghai
The Atonal River
Nimbus_[lux], AIKE, Shanghai
3rd Annual NOFALSH
Frosty Morning prototype, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University
Artificial Landscape
Embers (8k), SOGO Causeway Bay, Hong Kong
New Art History 2000-2018 Chinese Contemporary Art
Frosty Morning prototype, MOCA Yinchuan, Yinchuan
Osmosis Audiovisual Media Festival
Offset, C-LAB, Taipei
2018
Cross Domain
Nimbus, Suzhou Jinji Lake Art Museum, Suzhou
The Same But Also Changed
Nimbus_[lux], Shanghai Exhibition Center, Shanghai
Immortal City
Embers, Binhai Cultural Center, Tianjin
New Video in China
Nimbus, OCT Anren, Chengdu
Nine Tomorrows
Offset, Powerlong Art Center, Hangzhou
SPITAL STAIRS
Celestial Fable, AIKE, Shanghai
2017
.zip UNZIP THE FUTURE
Embers, 3LD Art & Technology Center, New York
Clockenflap Festival
Embers, Hongkong
Amitabha, Boundless Buddha
Embers, Migrant Bird Space, Berlin
.zip FUTURE RHAPSODY
Embers, Today Art Museum, Beijing
Before Chaos
Offset, St John's Church, Waterloo, London
China Remixed Initiative
Offset, Indiana University, Bloomington
2016
Shenzhen Media Art Festival
Nimbus, Shenzhen
Shanghai Biennale
Planet Chronicle, Power Station of Art, Shanghai
TAIFUN-offset
Offset & Nimbus, Dusseldorf
From Painting to Digital
Offset, Migrant Birds Space, Berlin
East Asia Moving, Screening
Offset, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
UTOPIA & BEYOND
Nimbus, Castello di Rivara, Turin
San: AIKE Spring Project
Nimbus, AIKE-DELLARCO, Shanghai
2015
Meme City: Hacking Reality Media Art Festival
@, Hangzhou (RMBit)
NONFIGURATIVE
Offset, Shanghai 21st Century Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai
Jimei X Arles: East West Encounters International Photo Festival
Nimbus, Tan Kan Kee Art Center, Xiamen
Schizophonia: sonic alienation
Nimbus, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen
The Lumen Prize Top 100
Offset, The Lumen Prize Online Gallery
Ars Electronica
Offset, Electronic Theatre, Linz
The CAFAM Future Exhibition: Observer-Creator
Perspective, K11 Art Mall, Hong Kong (RMBit)
NAISSANCE 24' Art Project
noPlanet [cn], Today Art Museum, Beijing
The CAFAM Future Exhibition: Observer-Creator
Perspective, CAFAM, Beijing (RMBit)
2014
Revolutions per minute: Sound Art China
Offset, City University of Hong Kong
+SEEING-
Offset, Grand Space, Beijing
FILE Electronic Language International Festival
Code:E, St. Paul (RMBit)
2013
Caissa Rising Artist-Exhibition for Nominated Students from Art Academy
Flâneur of the Virtual Landscape, Today Art Museum, Beijing
Sound Art China
Untitled, Shanghai
Green Box-Rehapping: The Space of Hedir-Reality
Flâneur of the Virtual Landscape, Hangzhou
2012
Ars Electronica
Calligraphy Mask, Future Media Lab, Linz (Collaboration with Tang Xiaodan)
Maker Carnival
Sound From Your Fingerprint, CMoDA, Beijing
2017
BPM: 127 Play Rec Party
Cloudburst, 696 Live, Shanghai
2016
Off Script#pilot
OSC_#3 + OSC_#V, Loopy, Hangzhou (OSC)
Welcome to Viceland
OSC_#V, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Beijing, Shanghai (OSC)
2015
Meme City: Hacking Realities Media Art Festival
OSC_#3, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou (OSC)
Schizophonia: Live Performance
OSC_#2, B10 Live, Shenzhen (OSC)
The CAFAM Future Exhibition: Observer-Creator
Code:E + OSC_#1 3D Edition, CAFAM, Beijing (RMBit)
2014
Revolutions per minute: Sound Art China
@ + Perspective, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong (RMBit)
Cyplosion++
@ + Perspective, The Wall, Taipei (RMBit)
West Bund Art and Design
Perspective, West Bund Art Center, Shanghai (RMBit)
BUS One Year Anniversary
OSC_#1, Hangzhou (RMBit)
2013
New Bit Media Festival
Code:E, Underwater Cafe, Hangzhou (RMBit)
Revolutions per minute: Sound Art China
@, West Bund, Shanghai (RMBit)
2012
SONART 4.5
Untitled, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou
2011
Bauhaus Theater + SONART 4.4
TV Man, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou