Zheng Bo is an ecoqueer artist of ethnic Bai heritage. Through drawing, dance and film, they cultivate kinship with plants: ferns in Taiwan, moss in Scandinavia, beech trees in Germany, an umbrella thorn acacia in the Arabian Desert. For them, art does not arise from human creativity, but more-than-human intimacy. Their ecological practice contributes to an emergent planetary indigeneity.
Recent projects include public commissions at the Huntington in Los Angeles and Somerset House in London, solo exhibitions at Gropius Bau in Berlin and Göteborgs Konsthall in Gothenburg, and participation in the 59th Venice Biennale. Their works are in the collections of Tate Modern, London; Power Station of Art, Shanghai and Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; among others.
