Zhang Peng is a Chinese artist based in The Netherlands. His work brings the viewer into the rural village Shijian Cun where Zhang spent his childhood. His memories are his treasures that offer opportunities to reconnect to the past that cannot be experienced anymore, but that can be recalled via Zhang’s artworks.

Since September 2021 Zhang Peng has joined the Rijksacademy Residency programme. In 2018 he obtained a Master in Fine Arts from AKV/St-Joost Art Academy in ’s-Hertogenbosch. Before coming to the Netherlands, he was trained as a painter at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou. Zhang Peng uses the fields, or an allotment, as his artist studio, working with natural low-tech materials and the garden space to reveal his memories. Zhang calls himself a farmer artist – to him the land is just another kind of canvas. Working materials or pigments originate from nature and his inspiration is grounded in rural life, which reflects the simplicity and earthiness of his artworks. Zhang’s most recent works relate to land art and earthworks.

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