Artist Bio

Yue Zeng is a Chinese-American self-taught artist who has been living in the United States since 2008 and currently resides in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Zeng’s artistic practice focuses on oil painting, with her subjects inspired by everyday life, mythical creatures, and animals. With two styles between abstract impressionism and fantasy, she explores the vividness of her subjects through vivid colours, organic forms and patterns. In her abstract work, she playfully paints in two dimensional shapes, experimenting with how reality can be interpreted . Zeng’s interest in the arts started in elementary school, sparking her desire to create later in life. In her twenties she obtained her Masters in Science from Suny College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, New York. In 2017 due to physical complications, Zeng had to leave the chemistry industry. Transformed by the experience, she decided to revisit her art practice and make it her career regardless of the obstacles she would face. Since then, Zeng has flourished in her artistic expression, finding her true passion in oil painting. Although Zeng explores other painting mediums such as gouache, pastel, and digital, oil and canvas feels the most natural. This medium allows her to relax and be free with the changeability of the material and exploration of colour within the subjects she paints.