Zheng Yuan lives and works in Beijing. He received his master’s degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2015. Working primarily in time-based media, Zheng often operates at the intersection of fiction, documentary, and investigative research. His work focuses on the relationships between identity and value systems within different historical, social, and political conditions. In 2017, he began the “China Northwest Airlines” project, an attempt to process the history of China’s recent economic transfonnBtion through the prism of the civil aviation industry, in particular the story of a failed airline based in his home region of China’s northwest.

His recent solo exhibitions include Forward, Backward, Madeln Gallery, Shanghai, 2020; Up in the Air, Taikang Space, Beijing, 2017. Group exhibitions and screening include The Future is Here, Are You Coming?, University of Chicago, Chicago, 2022; E-Flux Screening roorn, New York, 2022; Between Sci-fi and illusory, MAXXI Museum, Rome, 2022; Future Tense: Microcinema event, War hoi Museum, Pittsburgh, 2022; Double Vision, Tai Kwun – Centre for Heritage and Arts, Hong Kong, 2022; Diriyah Biennale, Riyadh, 2021; A Long Hello, UCCA, Beijing, 2020; UN/ CONVENTIONAL: OCAT x KADIST Emerging Media Artist Exhibition, OCAT Shanghai, Shanghai, 2020; The Mesh, chi K11 Art Museum, Shanghai, 2019; OFFLINE BROWSER – The 6th Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition, Hong-gah Museum, Taipei, 2018; New Metallurgists,Stoschek Collection, Dusseldo戊 2018. “Long March Project – Building Code Violations III Special Economic Zone’: Long March Space, Beijing, 2018. His works are also screened at film festivals and online platforms, including Visions du Reel, 2021; Arkipel Festival, 2021; Crashing into the Future, e-flux Artist Cinemas, online, 2021; Hasty Falling Time, 5th floor, Centre d’Art Contemporain Geneve, online, 2020; Out of Blueprints, Serpentine Galleries x NOWNESS, online, 2020; International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, 2019; Kasseler Dokfest, 2019; 25 FPS Festival, 2019; Ann Arbor Film Festival, 2017. He was awarded the Jury Award at the 8th Huayu Youth Award 2020.

鄭源(1988，蘭州)，現工作生活於北京。2015年畢業於芝加哥藝術學院，獲藝術碩士。 鄭源的創作以影像為主要媒介，他的工作關注圖像、歷史及其代表在不同語境狀況下的相互關系。他的影像作品經常處於虛構，紀錄與調查性的研究之間，往往伴隨著對既有圖像的挪用與轉譯獲得疊壓的互文性。

鄭源近期的個人展覽有“前進的，後退的”，沒頂畫廊，上海，2020；“懸而未決”，泰康空間，北京，2017；群展以及放映包括：The Future is Here,Are You Coming?,芝加哥大學東亞研究中心，芝加哥，2022；e-flux Screening room,紐約，2022；Between Sci-fi and illusory,MAXXⅪ Museum,羅馬，2022；FUTURE tense,安迪·沃荷美術館，匹茲堡，2022；”雙同”，大館，香港,2022;迪里耶當代藝術雙年展：“摸著石頭過河”，利雅得，沙特阿拉伯，2021；“西北望一一1870年以來的西北影像”，銀川當代美術館，銀川，2021；“漫長的問候”-第八屆華宇青年獎入圍展，尤倫斯當代藝術中心，北京，“自由聯接-OCAT x KADIST青年媒體藝術家展覽“，OCAT上海，2020；“光影如網“，上海chiK11美術館，上海，2019；離線瀏覽：第六屆台北國際錄像雙年展，台北鳳甲美術館，台北，2018；“新冶金者”，Julia Stoschek Collection,杜塞爾多夫，2018，“長征計劃：違章建築三一特區”，長征空間，北京，2018，”時間的狂喜“，何香凝美術館，深圳，2017。他的作品同時在國際電影節上進行展映，包括瑞士尼翁國際紀錄片電影節，2021;Arkipel Festival,,2021;”Crashing into the Future”,e-flux,在線展映，2021；”快速墜落的時間”，日內瓦當代藝術中心，在線展映，2020；“藍圖之外”，蛇形畫廊k NOWNESS,在線展映，2020；第65屆奧伯豪森國際短片電影節，2019；卡塞爾紀錄片電影節，2019；25FPS Festival,2019,北京國際短片聯展，2019，第55屆安娜堡電影節，2017；鄭源在2020年獲得華宇青年獎評委會大獎。