Zheng Andong examines Chinese migration to the United States in the 19th century and its consequences in the present day. His work is based on concrete facts, as he uses documentation such as the Chinese Exclusion Act or the written accounts of the construction of North America’s first transcontinental railroad, that feature many Chinese workers of whom no trace remains. Zheng Andong mixes past and present by revisiting historic sites meeting stakeholders in the present, in order to examine the sensitive issue of integration.
Zheng Andong was born in Hefei in Anhui Province in 1992. He graduated from the University of Tongji in Shanghai with a degree in engineering, and continued his studies in the United States with a Masters in Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2019. He lives and works in Shanghai.
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