Cheng Xinhao (b.1985 Yunnan, China) currently lives and works in Kunming, China. Cheng’s works are usually based on long-term field studies, centering around his hometown in Yunnan Province. With videos, installations, photographs and words, he personally investigates the polyphonic relationships between logic, discussions, knowledge, and the part that nature, society, and history play within them. 

Selected institution exhibitions include River Pulses, Border Flows, Times Museum (Guangzhou, 2022); The Language of Mushrooms: The Interspecies Internet, Contemporary Gallery Kunming (Kunming, 2022); I Recognized the World: Born in the 80s and 90s, MOCA Yinchuan (Yinchuan, 2021); An Archive: Seven Trails, Taikang Space (Beijing, 2020); Air Waste Health Water Energy Soil, Gleis 70 (Zurich, 2021); Re: Everything which exists under the sky, Gasworks (London, 2019).

Cheng is the recipient of several awards, including Abigail Cohen Fellowship (2017), the 6th Hou Dengke Documentary Photograph Award (2017), Author Book Award Arles (2017, shortlisted), Aperture First Photobook Award (2016), Shiseido Photography Award (2015), Three Shadows Photography Award (2015) 

Website: chengxinhao.me


Tabula Rasa Gallery

Kunming

Abigail Cohen Fellowship (Magnum Foundation/ChinaFile)

6th Hou Dengke Documentary Photograph Award

Aperture First Photobook Award

Shiseido Photography Award

New York City

Photoville

Art New York

London

Beijing

Author Gallery

Contemporary Gallery Kunming

Shanghai

J-Gallery

Guangzhou

Guangdong Times Museum

Yinchuan

MoCA Yinchuan

Zürich

Gleis 70

Taikang Space

Ocat Shanghai

Times Museum

Karlsruhe

The Zkm

Shenzhen

Pingshan Art Museum

Power Station of Art

Inside-Out Art Museum

Oct Contemporary Art (Ocat)

Howart Museum

Gasworks

Ocat Institute

Suzhou

Han Shan Art Museum

Three Shadows Photography Art Centre

1903 Space 

Cheng Xinhao 程新皓

Pro Helvetia 2020 studio residency

Vermont

Meadows Bee Farm residency

Der Rhein

The Extended Line