BIOGRAPHY
Lechen Zheng (b. 2002, China) is a London-based artist and researcher. Her practice focuses on desire and feminism, eroticism, queer intimacy, and fetishistic cultures, examining how sexual culture and its related cultural products are continuously shaped and directed by structures of power and cultural frameworks.
Working across photography, edible sculptures, ink painting, and mixed media, she frequently uses food as a metaphor for intimacy, desire, and queer narratives. She weaponises erotic and bodily symbols, pushing materials into friction, tension, and deliberate absurdity, while reflecting from the East Asian context of sexual repression. Zheng continually explores and questions the boundaries between eroticism and art, considering how sexuality and erotic expression persistently influence social life and the dynamics of intimacy in contemporary culture.
Contact: zhenglechen0617@gmail.com
Instagram: @zhenglechen_617
CV:https://freight.cargo.site/m/X2655049205703837322343354784990/Lechen_Zheng_Artist_CV.pdf
SELECTED EXHIBITION
2024 ‘Open House’ Copeland Gallery, London
‘Moveable Fest’ Central St Martins, London
2025 ‘ Pleasure: A Measure of Joy ’ Good Rice Gallery, London
BA (Hons) Photography Degree Show, London College of
1111111Communication (UAL), London
AWARDS
2025 Alumni Award, LCC (UAL) – Selected by artist Juno Calypso
Shortlisted, 100 Heroines Graduate Prize
Dildos Basket of The ‘Artists’ acquired by the UAL Art Collection
EDUCATION
2022-2025 London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, BA (Hons) Photography