dengjincheng1995@gmail.com
Education
6/2016-11/2019 University of Technology Sydney, Bachelor of Business
3/2020-11/2021 Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Master of Fine Arts
3/2024- Current Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, PhD of Fine Arts
Solo Exhibitions/Projects
2025 After rain, Trocadero Project, Melbourne, Australia (Upcoming)
2025 empty response stories matte, Kings Artist Run, Melbourne, Australia (Upcoming)
2024 Sleepy?, Mpavilion Parkville, Melbourne, Australia
2023 Here They Are, Flagstaff Garden, Test Sites Program, Melbourne, Australia
2023 Off the Beaten Track, Airspace Projects, Sydney, Australia
2023 Invisible Wall Project, Office of Octo, Haikou, China
2019 Square Game: Transcendental graphics, Scratch Art Space, Sydney, Australia
Collaborating Exhibitions/Projects
2025 Night Harmony, collaboration with Qiulin Li and Leon Qin, First Draft Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2024 Flying Backwards, collaboration with Huang Xuebin, TCB Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Awards/Scholarships
2024 UMSU Art Prize, Melbourne, Australia, Shortlisted
2024 Incinerator Art Award, Melbourne, Australia, Shortlisted
2023 Melbourne Research Scholarship, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
2022 New Public Arts Curating Award, China, Award
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 Unfixed, Mixed Zoming, Melbourne, Australia (Upcoming)
2024 Asia TOPA, Science Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2024 NoVacancy Annual Exhibition, No Vacancy Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2024 ARTNOVA100 Annual Exhibition, Guardian Art Center, Beijing, China
2023 Relationship, London Craft Central, UK
2023 Group show: BARE, Sol Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2023 London Contemporary 8th, The Line Contemporary Art Space, London, UK
2023 Renewal, FAC Open Exhibition, Frankston Arts Centre, Melbourne, Australia
2022 Wallless Kindergarten Art Festival, Haikou, China
2022 Wonder Land Exhibition, Sanya, China
Curatorial/Published
2026 Objects Untimely: Object-Oriented Philosophy and Archaeology (2023), Graham Harman, Christopher Witmore, Chinese Edition, Co-translator, Guangxi Normal University Press, Guilin, China (Upcoming)
2026 Immaterialism: Objects and Social Theory (2016), Graham Harman, Chinese Edition, Translator, Guangxi Normal University Press, Guilin, China (Upcoming)
2025 the trance treat, Co-curator, Composite Art Museum, Lingshui, China
2024 Joke Taxonomy, Curator, 138 Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2023 Octo folder Independent Magazine, Pukou Factory, editor, Guangzhou, China
2023 We are caught in two winds: Island co-writing project, Pukou Factory, Co-writer, Guangzhou, China
2023 Everything Has Disease – Exhibition of Li Bo’s work, Co-curator, Buzhi Arts, Haikou, China
2022 Crystal Freedom, collective workshop series, curator, Buzhi Arts, Haikou, China
Professional Development
2024-current, HAIR, Artists Run Initiative, Co-Founder, Melbourne, Australia
2022-2023, Office of Octo, Artists Run Initiative, Director, Haikou, China