| 1961 | Born in Shanghai, China |
| 1991 | Graduated from BFA Chinese Painting Department, Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, China |
| 1984 | Graduated from MFA San Francisco Art Institute, USA |
Currently lives and works in USA | |
| 2020 | “I look for the Sky”，Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, USA |
| 2019 | Zheng Chongbin: What the space wants to be, UOB Art Gallery / West Bund Art Center, Shanghai Liquid Space site-specific Installation, Ryosoku-in Temple Kennin-ji, Kyoto Dimension and Flow, Shibunkaku, Kyoto |
| 2017 | Zheng Chongbin: Walking Penumbra, Ink Studio, Beijing Zheng Chongbin: Clusters of Memory, Asia Society Texas Center, Houston Zheng Chongbin: Asymmetric Emergence, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York |
| 2016 | The Pacific Project: Zheng Chongbin, Orange County Museum of Art, California Structures, Sotheby’s S|2, Hong Kong S.A.R |
| 2015 | Zheng Chongbin: Wall of Skies, Ink Studio, Beijing |
| 2014 | Reconstruction Zone, Microsoft China Center One, Beijing The Matter Becomes Form: Zheng Chongbin and His Ink Media, Asia Art Center, Taipei |
| 2013 | Zheng Chongbin: Impluse, Matter, Form, Ink Studio, Beijing |
| 2012 | Negotiating between Light and Ink, Asian Art Center, Beijing Amorphous Geometry, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Singapore Ink Phenomenon: Objects of Perception, Flo Peters Gallery, Hamburg Black Wall / White Space, Hong Kong Arts Center, Hong Kong S.A.R. |
| 2011 | White Ink: Fresharp Artist’ Series, Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco INKquiry: Zheng Chongbin, Ooi Botos, Hong Kong S.A.R. Obtrusive / Elusive: Recent Ink Work of Zheng Chongbin, Haines Gallery, San Francisco |
| 2010 | Zheng Chongbin: Emergent, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Singapore |
| 2005 | Ink and Wash Paintings, Michael Martin Gallery, San Francisco |
| 1997 | East Meets East in the West, Limn Gallery, San Francisco |
| 1990 | Humanism in the Arts, Montgomery Gallery, San Francisco |
| 1990 | Introduction Show, Bruce Velick Gallery, San Francisco New Stone Color Ink Paintings, Riskin-Sinow Gallery, San Francisco |
| 1988 | Chongbin Zheng, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai |
| 2019 | Arts of Asia, Brooklyn Museum, New York Descending from the Above, New Chinese Galleries, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia |
| 2018 | Chimeric Landscape displayed at Art on theMART (Chicago’s city public art project), Merchandise Mart, Chicago, IL Post-Brushwork Era: Chinese Landscapes, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China; Zhejiang Museum of Art, Hangzhou Ink Worlds: Contemporary Chinese Painting from the Collection of Akiko Yamazaki and Jerry Yang, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, CA |
| 2017 | The Weight of Lightness, M+ Museum, Hong Kong S.A.R. Streams and Mountains without End: Landscape Traditions of China, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Chinese Contemporary Art: New Acquisitions for the Daimler Art Collection, Daimler Art Collection, Stuttgart-Möhringen Boundless: On Going Chinese Ink Art, Art Museum of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing |
| 2016 | Turbulence exhibited in Chinese art galleries, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles Why Not Ask Again, 11th Shanghai Biennale, Power Station of Art, Shanghai Shan Shui Within, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai |
| 2015 | Personal Structures: Crossing Borders, European Cultural Centre/Palazzo Bembo and Palazzo Mora, Venice From a Poem to the Sunset Daimler Art Collection, Daimler Contemporary Berlin, Berlin |
| 2014 | Rendering the Future: Chinese Contemporary Ink Painting Exhibition, Asia Art Center, Beijing A Fragment in the Course of Time: Landscape of Chinese Ink Art in 1980s, Himalayas Museum, Shanghai |
| 2013 | Ink Painting in the United States, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou Personal Structures: Culture, Mind, Becoming, a collateral event of the 55th Venice Biennale, Palazzo Mora, Venice Beyond Tradition: Chinese Contemporary Ink, Christie’s New York, New York The Moment for Ink, San Francisco State University, San Francisco |
| 2012 | Ink: The Art of China, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK China’s Imperial Modern: The Painter’s Craft, University of Alberta Museums, Edmonton, Canada |
| 2011 | Ink Limit, DADE Art Center M50, Shanghai N Minutes Video Art Festival: Urban Skin, organized by March Art Production, venues throughout Shanghai Qi Yun Sheng Dong, Contrasts Gallery, Shanghai XUAN, ETC.: Zheng Chongbin, Qiu Zhijie and You Si, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai |
| 2010 | Inaugural Exhibition of Zendai Contemporary Art Exhibition Hall, Shanghai Contemporary Ink Painting, Morlan Gallery, Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky The Third Taipei International Modern Ink Painting Biennial, Taipei Shanghai: Art of the City, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco |
| 2009 | Point & Crosses: Exhibition of Contemporary Painting in China, Shanghai 2010 Art Center, Shanghai Calligraffiti: Writing in Contemporary Chinese and Latino Art, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena IN SITU, River South Art Center, Shanghai Contemporary Ink Painting: Shanghai New Ink Painting Art Exhibition, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai |
| 2008 | 21st Century Contemporary Ink, China National Art Institute, Beijing International Contemporary Ink Art Show, Busan Museum of Modern Art, Busan Contemporary Brush and Ink: Nomination Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Figure |
| 2007 | Reboot: The Third Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu |
| 2005 | Dialogue, Michael Martin Galleries, San Francisco |
| 2003 | Together, Michael Martin Galleries, Dallas |
| 1999 | From Chinese Ink to Abstraction, Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco, San Francisco |
| 1996 | Rice / Snails / Pigeons, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco |
| 1995 | Perception / Reflection, Gallery Concord, Concord |
| 1994 | Asian / American American / Asian, Belcher Studios Gallery, San Francisco Cultural Identities and Immigration: Changing Images of America in the 90’s, Oliver Arts Center, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland |
| 1993 | Beyond the Written Word, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, CA Group Six Show, Belcher Studios Gallery, San Francisco |
| 1992 | The Object Is Bound (The Book As Metaphor), Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco Art from Hangzhou, China, Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg |
| 1991 | A Grave Silence (Mixed Media Installation), Ghia Gallery, San Francisco |
| 1988 | Chinese Painting Exhibition, Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg |
| 1987 | Contemporary Chinese Painting, Japan Gallery, Osaka |
| 1985 | The Stars. Second Exhibition, National Gallery, Beijing |