Zhenzhen Tian
BIO:
Zhenzhen Tian is a Chinese interdisciplinary artist whose practice blends painting with digital technology, exploring how data, networks, and systems shape human perception and contemporary environments. She approaches painting as an interface for the materialisation of digital concepts, positioning it as one output within a cross-disciplinary practice.
Her practice operates across painting, installation, and digital methodologies, including 3D modelling, sound, and video, allowing ideas to move fluidly between media. She graduatedfrom the Chengdu Academy of Fine Arts in 2010 and received an MA in Digital Direction from the Royal College of Art in 2023.
Tian’s practice critically examines the ethics of datafication, the quantification of emotion, and the evolving role of human emotion and environment in a technology-driven world, with a particular focus on the intersection between the organic and the artificial.
EXHIBITION:
2026 ‘Blessings Gather Across the Strait: Drawing a Splendid Chapter’ Art Exchange
Exhibition at Da Ji Art Space (Chengdu, China)
2025 ‘Soft Data:’ at Fitzrovia Gallery (London, UK)
2025 ‘Becoming of Memory’ at Arts Archive London (London,UK)
2025 ‘Day Dream’ at 253 Eversholt St (London, UK)
2025 Society of Graphic Fine Art 104th Annual Open Exhibition at The Mall Galleries (London, UK)
2025 ‘Season’ at Woolwich Works (London, UK)
2024 ‘EPHEMERAL RADICALS’ at Greatorex Street Space (London, UK)
2024 ‘Intimate Whispers’ at The Split Gallery (London, UK)
2024 ‘In the Distance I See the Moon’ at LooLooLook Gallery (Paris, France)
2024 ‘Inside the Cradle. Outside the Cradle’ at Shangzun Gallery (Beijing, China)
2024 ‘S.B Art Studios Open Call 2024’ at S.B Art Studios (London, UK)
2024 ‘England is a Forest’ at Small Works (London, UK)
2023 The RCA Digital Direction MA Graduate Show Intertwine (London, UK)
2023 The Confluence: Celtic Culture and Eastern Eyes, RCA2023 Digital Platform (London, UK)
2016 Affordable Art Fair organised by Pinales Art Ltd. (London, UK)
2016 3rd Poly New Art Talent Fair hosted at Xiangshan Art Museum (Shenzhen, China)
2015 ‘Heart & Will’ National New Art Talent Fair hosted at Kenda Art Museum (Suzhou, China)
2015 3rd Exhibition for Nominated Young Artist in Asia hosted at Today Art Museum (Beijing,China)
2015 2nd Poly New Art Talent Fair hosted at Time Museum (Beijing, China)
2014 SAYA Embrace Project hosted at Yijia International Gallery (Chengdu, China)
2014 1st National Young Artists’ Excellent Work Exhibition hosted at Fulee RenaissanceHotel (Shanghai, China)
2014 5th New Star Art Festival hosted at Today Art Museum (Beijing, China)
2014 Ar-The Neo Generation organised by The Neo Echo Art Space (Chongqing, China)
2013 Joint Exhibition for Young Artists hosted at Chongqing International Expo Center (Chongqing, China)
2012 Drawing and Painting Fair hosted at Thousand Plateaus Art Space (Chengdu, China)
2012 ‘Artistic Innovation’ Contemporary Art Fair hosted at Chongqing Art Museum (Chongqing, China)
2012 Porsche “Colourful Hearts” Young Artist Exhibition hosted in Chongqing Art Museum (Chongqing, China)
2012 3rd New Star Art Festival hosted in Sanchuan Modern Art Museum (Nanjing, China)
PRESS & PUBLICATION:
2025 Reshaping Perception: Intertwinement of Technique, Emotion and Abstraction:
Zhenzhen Tian, A review by Artron.Net, https://m-news.artron.net/news/20250222/n2054555.html
2025 Tate ETC. 2025 summer issue (Issue 66)
2024 Tian Zhenzhen: Integration of Traditional Art and Digital Information, A review by Art China, http://art.china.cn/txt/2024-08/14/content_42894049.htm
2024 Art Press,France
2023 Sketching the Future, picture book.
2023 The randomness and uncontrollability, picture book.
2023 Echo Within, picture book.
2023 Edge of Silent Shards, picture book.
2015 CCARTD http://www.ccartd.com/artistData/detail/T/2701.html
2014 Artgogo http://m.artgogo.com/newwap/php/artists.php?id=2493
2012 Weebly,https://tianzhenzhen.weebly.com/
AWARDS:
2025 Jackson’s Art Prize, Extended Longlist
2025 Anomalous Mathematical Patterns Sci-Art Contest, Honourable Mentions
EDUCATION:
2022-2023
Royal College of Art, Master of Digital Direction (London, UK)
2007-2010
Chengdu Academy of Fine Arts, Diploma of Visual Communication Design (Chengdu,China)