This interview was conducted in Brooklyn, New York on 31 October 2009. 


Biography:

Zheng Shengtian (b. 1938, Henan Province) is an artist, writer and curator now based in Vancouver, Canada.

Zheng graduated in 1958 from the Zhejiang Acadmy of Art in Hangzhou (now China Academy of Art), where he worked for more than thirty years as a professor and chair of the Oil Painting Department. He was also a visiting professor at the University of Minnesota and at San Diego State University in the 1980s.

Zheng moved to Canada in 1990. From 1996 to 2000, he was Secretary of the Annie Wong Art Foundation and Director of the Art Beatus Gallery in Vancouver. Since 2002, he has been the Managing Editor of Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, the only English-language journal on contemporary Chinese art. He has also been a founding member and Board Director of the Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art since 1999.

As an independent curator, he has organized and curated numerous exhibitions including ‘Jiangnan: Modern and Contemporary Chinese Art' (Vancouver), the ‘Art of the Proletarian Cultural Revolution’ (Vancouver, Toronto, Winnipeg, Canada), ‘Shanghai Modern’ (Munich, Kiel, Germany), the Shanghai Biennale (Shanghai, 2004), ‘China Trade’ (Vancouver), ‘Reincarnation’ (Toronto) and ‘Art and China’s Revolution’ (New York). 


簡歷︰

鄭勝天，1938年生，河南人。華裔加拿大學者、策展人和油畫家。

1958年畢業於杭州浙江美術學院（中國美術學院）。曾任中國美術學院油畫系主任、美國明尼蘇達大學和聖地牙哥州立大學客座教授、梁潔華藝術基金會秘書長。自2002年起擔任英文當代中國藝術學刊《YISHU》（典藏國際版）的總策劃。兼任溫哥華當代亞洲藝術國際中心創會理事、 上海《藝術當代》編委。
 
近年策劃的重要活動與展覽有《江南：現代和當代華人藝術展覽與國際學術研討會》（溫哥華）；《無產階級文化大革命的藝術》（溫哥華，多倫多，溫尼帕）；《上海摩登》（慕尼克，基爾）；2004上海雙年展；《中國生意》（溫哥華）；《轉世》（多倫多）；《藝術和中國革命》（紐約）等。現擔任溫哥華雙年展亞洲資深策展人。論著經常在中外刊物上發表。