Artist Statement
B. 2001 New York City, NY
Mei Zheng is a first-generation Chinese American artist-designer-educator whose practice commits to a love that is steadily healing.
Using sculpture, food, printmaking, and other media, they craft new considerations in memory work and archives through the built environment and rituals they inhabit. Mei invites conversations about one's transnational and diasporic history, familial storytelling conventions, and newfound intimacies within remaking. Zheng aims to bring people closer from a distance to see one's humanness and remembrance.
They hold an MA in Art Education from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and a BFA in Industrial Design from RISD. Mei has exhibited work internationally with
A Space Gallery, Brooklyn NY;
Gallery 263, Cambridge MA;
Goethe-Institut, Boston MA;
Steinbeisser,
Netherlands; RISD,
Mather Homestead, Darien CT amongst others. They also have featured writing in literary arts and food publications like MOLD Magazine and the RISD Museum.
Impromptu portrait: Ziare Greene (2024).Mandarin trees from Awaji, Japan (2023).Hondamachi, Kanazawa (2023).