DIANA ZENG
Born in Chengdu, Sichuan, China
Based in St. Louis, Missouri, United States
EDUCATION
2014
Washington University in St. Louis — BSBA, Major in Marketing, Minor in Art
SELECT EXHIBITIONS
2021
Prairie Land, group exhibition, Monaco — St. Louis, MO
All My Friends Are Miracles 2, group exhibition, Sow and Tailor — Los Angeles, CA
Flat file, Deanna Evans Projects — New York, NY
2020
Open Call 2020, group exhibition, Delphian Gallery — London, UK
The Other Side of Here, public installation, American Cancer Society —St. Louis, MO
Backyard Dream Keeps Me Awake, group exhibition, Tutu Gallery — New York, NY
After the Fire, We Rise, Benefit for Museum of Chinese in America, Wing on Wo — New York, NY
Winter biannual, Angad Arts Hotel — St. Louis, MO
2019
Outside In, solo exhibition, The Bonsack Gallery — St. Louis, MO
Group exhibition, The Last Hotel — St. Louis, MO
Inaugural biannual, Angad Arts Hotel — St. Louis, MO
2018
Group exhibition, Houska Gallery — St. Louis, MO
Group exhibition, The Old Orchard Gallery — Webster Groves, MO
COUNCILS + BOARDS
Artists of Color Council, Great Rivers Greenway — St. Louis, MO, 2018 - 2020
Board of Directors, Downtown STL, INC. — St. Louis, MO, 2016 - 2017
Founding Advisory Board, The Venture Cafe Foundation — St. Louis, MO, 2014 - 2016
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
Keynote Panel, Diversity and Inclusion Summit at WUSTL — Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, 2020
Artist Talk, Young Chinese Professionals Association — Houska Gallery, St. Louis, MO, 2019
Startup Panel, Skandalaris Center for Interdisciplinary Innovation and Entrepreneurship — Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, 2018
Beef and a Toast Panel, 100 Resilient Cities - Pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation — T-REX, St. Louis, MO, 2016
Lecture, Queer Places, Practices & Lives Symposium, “The Façade of Oz: Undoing Socially Constructed Utopia and Privilege” — The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 2014
TEACHING
Guest Teaching Artist, Watkinson School — Watkinson School, Hartford, CT, 2020
Exhibiting Artist, John Burroughs School — The Bonsack Gallery at John Burroughs School, St. Louis, MO, 2019
Teaching Assistant, The Brown School of Social Work — Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, 2016
Program Director, Cortex Summer Interns Program — Cortex Innovation Community, St. Louis, MO, 2016
AWARDS
Artists of Color Council Stipend — Great Rivers Greenway
Conference Travel Award for Queer Places, Practices & Lives Symposium — Washington University in St. Louis
John M. Olin Scholarship — Washington University in St. Louis