Meng Zhigang 蒙志刚

A contemporary artist and freelance writer who currently resides in Singapore and Shanghai. Recognition of his work began when he directed a cultural survey of the Yunnan and Tibet region in 2006, capturing the current state of ethnic minority folk songs there. In that same year, he held an ecological art exhibition (“Original Sound Space”), the first of its kind, in Beijing.

His work “Painting Gong-Fu” went on to be nominated for the Best Documentary award at the 2007 Los Angeles AOF Film Festival. In 2013, Meng Zhigang then held a solo art exhibition titled “Not Entering the City” at the Today Art Museum in Beijing. In 2015, he started producing several documentary series, becoming an art director for CCTV4. Having become one of the founders of “Qi Ju Technology”, he made his first forays into integrating technology with art in 2016, developing new technological art with a focus on modern elements and mediums such as sound and light. This initiative aimed to actively intertwine the traditional and the contemporary, reconciling scientific cultural concepts with the mythological. 

He regularly contributes articles on technology and art to various media outlets, actively promoting and advocating for public art projects and cultural-adjacent art forms.

In 2022, he started on “Fierce Transcendent Wandering”, a self-led artistic project, and completed the production of its first season at Taihu Lake in Suzhou.

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Solo Exhibitions of his include:

2018 ‘A Poem Of Dust’, DaBaoGallery, Beijing

2013 ‘Dislocated – I am in the city’ Meng Zhigang Solo Exhibition, Today Art Museum, Beijing

2007 ‘More Architectural/More painterly’ Meng Zhigang Solo Exhibition, 798 Da-Ku Art Space, Beijing

Selected Group Exhibitions featuring Meng Zhigang:

2025 ‘Lightscapes’，ART SG 2025, Singapore

2024 ‘EMPREINTE 100 ANS’, LANCASTER, Paris

2024 ‘How much 華 do you feel today?’, HIGHLIGHT Art, Singapore

2023 ‘Book by Artists’, Suzhou By Digital Art Museum, SuZhou

2022 ‘Art Sees China’, 2022 Shenzhen Futian Public Art Season, Shenzhen

2021 The 6th Silk Road Image & Video Gallery Unit Exhibition, Xi’an

2020 ‘Yishui Triennial’, Yishui Lake Art Museum/Hebei

2018 ‘Timeline’, New Media Art Project Exhibition, Vanke Times Center, Beijing

2017 ‘China Europe International Art Biennale’, Prague International Exhibition Grounds，Czech Republic

2016 ‘Hua’ Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Salamanca Centre/Australia

2015 ‘Global Impressions’, Perth DAC Cultural Foundation, Berlin

2015 ‘Exhibition of Recommended Art Nova 100’, Project Exhibition, Beijing Agriculture Exhibition Center, Beijing

2015 ‘From the Sanwei Study Room to the Herb Garden’, Phoenix Art Center, Beijing

2015 ‘Not A State, But An Artists’ Colony’, Intelligentsia Gallery, Beijing

2015 ‘Now is the Future’, Stiftung fur Kunst und Kulture.V.Bonn, Germany

2014 ‘The Biennial of Lions’, Macau Museum, MGM Macau, and France

2013 ‘The National Featured Youth Oil Exhibition’, Suzhou Art Museum, Suzhou

2012 ‘Everything – The Sixth A+A’ , PIFO New Art Gallery, Beijing

2012 ‘Made in China’ OXO Gallery, London

2008, 2007 ‘The Annual Exhibition of New Masters’ Chinese contemporary art and literature exhibition, The Wall Art Museum, Beijing

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Personal Publications:

2012 “The Art Of Chinese Kong Fu” by CYPI Press  

2013 “Dislocated – I am in the City” by China Bookstore Publishing House, 

2018 “Times’ Fashion” by Meng Zhigang’s Art Column

His interviews and works have been featured in various magazines including LIFEMAGAZINE, Art & Fortune, Hi Art, Bazaar Art, and TODAY BEIJING.

Original article and artwork published in Today Literary Magazine, China, Issue 148 (2024).

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Awards:

2007 – Director of documentary “Painting Gong-Fu”, which was nominated for Best Documentary at AOF International Film Festival, Los Angeles, USA.

2021 – Won “The 6th Silk Road Image & Video” Outstanding Work award, Xi’an.

2024 – “Grand Prize of Sino-French Artists” as awarded by EMPREINTE 100 Years, Comité Empreinte 100 Ans, Paris, France (2024).

2024 – Awarded for the creation of a bust of Pierre de Coubertin, in celebration of the 33rd Olympic Games in Paris.