Sitian Zeng
Work
About
Email: sitianzeng1230@gmail.com
Instagram: sitian.zeng
Artist Statement
Sitian Zeng (b. 1995, China) is a Glasgow-based artist and researcher who currenly pursuit her PhD in Glasgow School of Art. Sitian’s artworks involve painting, mixed-media art, and moving images, whilst her research interests lie within interdisciplinary contexts crossing art practice, philosophy, and media theory. Sitian focus on topics including painting in the expanded field, subjectivity, identity, mass media, and the power structure in the (post)digital age. As an artist in the millennial year, Sitian is sensitive to the amount of virtual fragmented information that shapes her growth. The penetration of ubiquitous virtual information on people leads her exploration of how Michel Foucault's theory of power structure reflects in the digital age, and she explores the power dynamic between digital information and individuals through her artworks. She also explores the entanglement of art practice and philosophy as she utilizes the philosophical concept of rhizome by Gilles Deleuze to develop a way of rhizomatic painting characterized by spontaneity and flux. By doing so, she focuses on the painting process and where the painting can lead her direction of thinking rather than on the final result of the painting. Through painting, she establishes a dialogue with herself, or establishes a dialogue with painting, to explore the impact of the digital age that she is not yet aware of. At the same time, she also uses painting as a socially critical medium to question the potential control of digital information over human beings and how subjectivity is passively shaped.
Glasgow School of Art Postgraduate Degree Show, Stow College, 2021
Education
2023-, Ph.D in Fine Art, The Glasgow School of Art, UK
2020-21, MA (Distinction), Painting, The Glasgow School of Art, UK
2019-22, MFA, Watercolour, The Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts , China
2014-18, BA, Lacquer art and wood craft, Nanjing University of the Arts
Employment
2022-23 Beijing Maxine International Education Technology Co., Ltd, China, Art Tutor(Part-time).
Awards and Group Exhibitions
2021, The Academic Nomination Award of 3rd Fujian Province Watercolor Exhibition, China
2020, The First Prize of ‘painting on Erythrina’ in Quanzhou city, China
2020, The Rubens scholarship of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, China
2019, The first prize scholarship in Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, China
2020, 2nd Shenzhen International Watercolor Biennale, China
2021, The Character of the 3rd Academy—Academic Exhibition of ‘College Watercolor’, China
2020, 2nd National Watercolor Network Exhibition
2019, The 8th College Students Art Fair, China
2017, The 4th Zi Jing Award Cultural Creative Competition in Jiangsu Province, China