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