Wen Cheng
Email:
wencheng.studio@gmail.com
Instagram:
wencheng.art

Wen Cheng (b. 2003) is an interdisciplinary artist working with photography, archival materials, text, and installation to examine intimacy, memory, and the fragile formation of identity within personal and collective histories. He is drawn to moments where emotional vulnerability, desire, and distance intersect, investigating how intimate relationships shape one’s sense of self within contemporary social and cultural conditions.

His works often incorporate viewers and exhibition spaces as part of the narrative structure, allowing personal experiences, spatial encounters, and audience presence to become active elements within the work, further blurring boundaries between private memory and shared experience.

Cheng is currently an MFA candidate in Studio Art at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where his research focuses on archival practices and interdisciplinary approaches to contemporary photography. He lives and works in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Curriculum Vitae

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Education

MFA fine art, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA (expected 2027)

BFA Photography,Communication University of Zhejiang, China

Employment

Teaching Assistant,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
2025-2026

Art Manager
INZLAB, Shenzhen, China
Mar-May 2025

Curator; Head of Exhibition Department
CVG Foundation, Beijing, China
Jul 2024 - Jan 2025

Exhibitions

BFA Graduate Exhibition
Art Museum of Communication University of Zhejiang,
Hangzhou, China
2025

Signature 07
Wuhan Photography Art Centre,
Wuhan, China
2025

Your First Art Collection
Victoria Olt Gallery,
Tallinn, Estonia
2024

Broken Forms
millepiani art space,
Rome, Italy
2024

Art On Loop
The Holy Art gallery,
Paris, France
2024

瞬：The moment when it flashes
Soǒfa art space,
Shanghai, China
2024

Fragments of identity
Boomer gallery,
London, UK
2024

Awards

FLAT CURVED competition winner,
Creatio Magna
2024

Press

‘Passing Glow’, Feature - October,
by Warimono Gallery
2024

‘FLAT CURVED’, Feature - September,
by Lumen art gallery
2024

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