Overview
Aleza Zheng

Aleza Zheng (b. 1999) is a Chinese-born, Los Angeles-based artist working with oil, ink, linen, and silk. She uses the genre of autofiction to explore shared histories between the East and the West, exploring personal and cultural narratives, and traditional media with contemporary subjects. Her practice presents the world through anthropomorphized objects, using empathy as a device to understand disorientation, humanity, and invite a re-enchantment of the world.


Recent solo exhibitions include As If (2026) at Make Room, Los Angeles; Across the Idyll (2024) at Shazar, Milan; and Vanishing Point (2025) at SOOT, Los Angeles. Recent curatorial projects include Once Upon a Blue Moon (2025) at Bonian Space. Her work has also been presented in group exhibitions at Frieze Seoul (2025) with Make Room and Santander (2025) with Shazar.

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Works
  • Oil painting by Aleza Zheng featuring a loosely rendered bouquet of sunflowers, daisies, and red blooms growing from a dark rounded form with two watchful human eyes, animating the familiar still life genre with a quiet anthropomorphic strangeness.
    As If, 2026
  • Oil painting by Aleza Zheng depicting a group of anthropomorphized sunflowers with expressive faces and eyes, their stems elongated and curved against a layered green and yellow ground, animating the floral genre with humor, curiosity, and a quietly unset
    Sunflowers, 2026
  • Oil painting by Aleza Zheng of a pale faceless figure suspended mid-air and reaching toward a cluster of dark botanical forms, set against a muted green and blue atmospheric ground with eroded architectural shapes emerging from below, merging mythological
    Tandaradei (If The Nightingale Could Speak), 2026
  • Oil painting by Aleza Zheng featuring a large luminous white animal form moving through a fragmented landscape of mossy stones, scattered wildflowers, and deep nocturnal darkness, the figure dissolving at its edges into the ground as if caught between pre
    The Mare, 2026
  • Oil painting by Aleza Zheng of a white long-haired cat rendered in loose impastoed brushwork, its blue-grey eyes meeting the viewer directly while its body merges with a soft haze of pale blue, blush, and sand tones, collapsing the boundary between animal
    The Unbearable Lightness of Being, 2026
  • Oil painting by Aleza Zheng of a husky puppy with vivid blue eyes resting against a soft grey and white surface, rendered with loose confident brushwork that balances tenderness with the directness of an observed moment.
    Untitled, 2026
  • Small oil painting by Aleza Zheng of a white cat with green eyes crouching against a dense black ground, presented inside a deep wooden shadow box that frames the tiny work like a found object or relic.
    Untitled, 2026