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Zheng Chongbin

ZHENG CHONGBIN

Golden State Los Angeles County Museum of Art 23 March 2025–4 January 2026 Los Angeles
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Over the past four decades, Shanghai-born, Marin County–based artist Zheng Chongbin (b. 1961) has cultivated a unique practice that engages with the driving concepts and aesthetics of the Light and Space movement and East Asia’s tradition of ink painting. Educated in both traditional Chinese figurative painting and installation and performance art, Zheng synthesizes these seemingly disparate practices into unprecedented signature painting and video techniques. Zheng Chongbin: Golden State is a focused presentation that features two video installation pieces coupled with painted and printed works. Through abstract forms and distorted views of California’s natural landscape, Zheng explores water, light, and movement in his signature works.

About the Artist

Zheng Chongbin, who splits his time between San Francisco and his native Shanghai, has probed the boundary between Western abstract expressionism and the most vital tenets of China’s long ink tradition for many years. Using a unique mix of ink and white acrylic paint Zheng’s virtuosic works have been championed by many critics as a sign of ink painting’s great comeback. Using bold strokes that play ‘void’ against ‘fullness’, the simple marriage of physical materials become Zheng’s stage for the spiritual resonance of xuan’s moyun to perform. In his project “Floating Ink” Zheng installs a forest of faux columns at the center of the gallery space which float above stacks of xuan paper. The newly added columns funnel ink onto the paper stacks below instilling them with new meaning in the process.

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About the Gallery

Founded in 1965, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is a cornerstone of cultural life in California and the largest art museum in the western United States, with a collection of more than 150,000 objects spanning ancient to contemporary art. Reflecting the city’s diverse communities, LACMA has developed particular strengths in Asian art, Latin American art—from pre-Columbian works to modern and contemporary practice—and Islamic art, alongside significant holdings in European and American art, photography, film and media, decorative arts, and design. Together, these collections position LACMA as a key destination for visitors seeking major art museums in Los Angeles.

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5905 Wilshire Boulevard
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Monday, Tuesday, Thursday: 11 am–6 pm
Friday: 11 am–8 pm
Saturday, Sunday: 10 am–7 pm
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Los Angeles 5905 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles County Museum of Art contemporary art institution in Los Angeles United States
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, United States
323 857-6000
http://www.lacma.org/

Opening hours
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday: 11 am–6 pm
Friday: 11 am–8 pm
Saturday, Sunday: 10 am–7 pm
Closed Wednesday
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