Zi Peng is a Chinese artist born in 1982 in Shandong, China. He studied at the Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts, where he received a Bachelor’s degree in 2005 and later a Master’s degree in Fine Arts. Zi Peng lives and works in Shenyang, China. His work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions internationally, including in China, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Taiwan, Sweden, and the United States, as well as at art fairs such as Art Taipei, Art Jakarta, Art Kaohsiung, and Shanghai Contemporary.

In his artistic practice, Zi Peng primarily works with oil painting on canvas. His works are characterized by combinations of representational motifs and material- or decorative-oriented elements, with jade recurring as a central visual and thematic component.

His motifs are drawn both from contemporary visual culture and from more traditional symbolic systems. His painting is often marked by a high level of detail and a treatment of surfaces that emphasizes materiality, light, and apparent three-dimensionality. Zi Peng’s work addresses questions concerning the construction of images, perception, and the relationship between representation and materiality.