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Arts Division
History of Art/Visual Culture
PhD Candidate
Graduate
Porter College Academic
D226
Porter Faculty Services
Connie Zheng is a visual artist, writer, experimental filmmaker and scholar of environmental artworks and land-based practices. Her projects have been exhibited and screened internationally, and her work is held in the collections of KADIST and the David Rumsey Map Center at Stanford University. She received her BAs in Economics and English from Brown University, an MFA in Art Practice from the University of California — Berkeley, and is currently a PhD Candidate in Visual Studies at UCSC.
Maps, spatial knowledge and land-based creative practices, contemporary art of North America and East Asia, video and moving image, documentary film, environmental justice, foraging
Selected grants/awards/fellowships/residencies:
2024: Graduate Student Research Fellowship, Agricultural Experiment Station, UCSC
2023:Speculative Pasts and Empathetic Futures grant (in collaboration with the Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco), Robert H. N. Ho Foundation
2023: YBCA 100 Awardee, Yerba Bueba Center for the Arts (SF, CA)
2021: Creative Ecologies Fellowship, UCSC
2021: Project grant, Puffin Foundation
2021: Interdisciplinary residency, Oak Spring Garden Foundation (Upperville, VA)
2020-2021: Chancellor's Award, UCSC
2020-2021: Regent's Fellowship, UCSC
2020: Kadist Research Fellowship, KADIST (San Francisco, CA)
2018: Catherine and William L. Magistretti Graduate Fellowship, UC Berkeley
2018: Center for Chinese Studies Summer Research Grant, UC Berkeley
2018: Eisner Prize for Outstanding Achievement in Art Practice, UC Berkeley
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