Andong Zheng (b. 1992, Hefei, China) lives and works in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
He received his MFA in Photography from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2019, and in 2025 completed the MA in Photography & Society at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK).
With a hybrid background in engineering and fine art, Zheng was trained to focus on micro details within rigid causal frameworks, yet he often found himself questioning the macro structures they sustain. For him, image-making is less about mapping established knowledge systems than about dismantling and reconfiguring them, a way of engaging with the gaps, ambiguities, and contradictions that lie between these systems and the world. Lens-based media are his primary tools through which he researches with reality, not as a mirror of objective truth, but as an instrument that aids in contemplation. Through this practice, he seeks to open up new ways of knowing that traverse rationality.
His work has been exhibited at numerous international institutions and galleries, including Photo Elysée (Switzerland), Centre régional de la photographie Hauts-De-France (France), the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts at Brown University (USA), Guangdong Times Museum (China), Fotografiska Shanghai (China), Ames Yavuz (Singapore), and ClampArt (USA). He was shortlisted for the 9th Huayu Youth Award (2021) and the 10th Jimei x Arles Discovery Award (2024). His work has also been featured in publications such as The Routledge Companion to Photography, Representation and Social Justice, British Journal of Photography, and Chinese Photography.