GREEN ZENG

He was a member of the performance art group, Metabolic Theatre Laboratory, and performed with the company in Singapore and Japan from 1996 – 1999. He is currently the Creative Director of Singapore film production company, Mirtillo Films. He has directed many films that have been selected for various international film festivals such as the prestigious Cannes Film Festival. His film, Passenger, was also awarded the Encouragement Prize at the Akira Kurosawa Memorial Short Film Competition in Tokyo 2006. In 2015, he completed his first feature film, The Return.

In 2011, Zeng held two solo visual arts exhibitions, Malayan Exchange, at the Arts House and An Exile Revisits The City at The Substation in Singapore. Malayan Exchange also traveled to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia for a solo showing in the same year. His latest solo exhibition Chinese School Lessons was held at Chan Hampe Galleries in 2012. He was also shortlisted as a Finalist for the Sovereign Asian Art Prize 2012 in Hong Kong. In 2014, he was nominated for the Asia Pacific Breweries Signature Art Prize.

Zeng has also participated in several notable group shows in Singapore such as the well-received Singapore Survey series by Valentine Willie Fine Art Gallery in 2010, 2011 and 2012. He also took part in Don’t Sit On Me, in collaboration with artist Cheo Chai Hiang in Melaka, Malaysia in 2012. Zeng was invited to participate in OH! Open House 2012: Tiong Bahru where he created a site-specific installation. In 2013, he took part in Campaign City, a poster exhibition that was organized by the National Library of Singapore. He was also commissioned by the Singapore Land Transport Authority to create the artwork for one of the train stations in the Thomson Line Art Programme.