Zhenyi Zheng is a London-based illustrator, comic artist and visual designer originally from China. Her practice spans ideas of space, architecture, nature, lifestyle, and narratives of relationship, drawing inspiration from daily life, bizarre coincidences, and surreal moments. Blending the mundane with the strange, she crafts silent narratives that explore the tension between the ordinary and the uncanny. She situates her work in the space between reality and fiction, maintaining an objective tone and a sober perspective.



Selected Clients
Cake Zine(US), Alchemise Theatre (UK), Wandsworth London Borough Council(UK), Rimowa(CH), Shanghai Translation Publishing House (CH), The Palace Museum(CH), Ambit Magazine(UK), Tianjin People’s Fine Art Publishing House(CH)


Awards
2025 3x3 International Illustration Annual No.22, Merit Award.
2025 World Illustration Awards, shortlisted in Professional Book Cover Category.
2024 Society of Illustrators Annual 67, Jury Selection in Book Series Category.
2023 Chelttenham Illustration Awards, Winners in The Emerging and Established Category.
2023 Creative Quaterly, Runners-up in Illustration Category.
2022 World Illustration Awards, shortlisted in Alternative Publishing Category.
2022 Communication Arts-Illustration Annual Award shortlisted.
2021/2023 Hiii Illustration Awards shortlisted.


Features/Interviews/Reviews
2025  World Illustration Awards Shortlisted Interview, UK
2025 Review of Good Day on Broken Frontier, UK
2025 Review of Summer Maze on Broken Frontier, UK

2024 Broken Frontier Interview
2024 Six Small Press Creators to Watch in 2024, Broken Frontier, UK
2024 Illustrator Spotlight, Booooooom, Canada
2024 Arrey, Booooooom, Canada
2023 Review of Banana Trap on Broken Frontier, UK
2023 Ambit Magazine, Magik Issue 249, UK
2022 World Illustration Awards 2022 Judges’ Highlights from the New Talent Shortlist, UK



Public Talk
2023 Publishing vs Self-Publishing, Panel discussion programme, Organized by Avery Hill Publishing, South London Comic Zine Festival, UK

Educations
MA Visual Communication(Illustration), Royal College of Art, London, UK
MA Fashion and Lifestyle Brand Studies - University of Lancashire, Preston, UK
BA Digital Media Art - Beijing Institute of Graphic Communication, Beijing, China


Group Exhibitions
2025 Illustrators Annual 67, Society of Illustrators, New York, USA
2024 Around Publishing: Reading Room, Kitchen, Garden, Shanghai, China
2024 Bigger Inside, Broken Frontier Six-to-Watch, St. Margaret’s House, London,UK
2024 Cheltenham Illustration Awards 2023: Interconnectivity, The Museum in the Park, UK
2024 UNSPEAKABLE, Brut Magazine, New House Art Space, Guildford, UK
2023 To Whom It May Concern, Safehouse 1, London, UK
2023 Liveness Unnoticed, Canal Dream Art Festival, London, UK
2023 Small and Mighty Online Group Exhibition, Ladies Drawing Club, France
2023 International Women’s Day Group Exhibition, Print House Gallery, London, UK
2023 Unconsumed, The Shoe Factory, Norwich, UK
2023 Inspirational Women Artists, A Space Art, Southampton, UK
2021 Terminal, Ugly Duck, London, UK
2021 RCA2021 Online Exhibition, UK
2021 RCA Collection “Intimate Loops” Curated by Olivia Ahmed, UK
2020 No One Writes to Colonel Collaboration Publication Launch, Tenderbooks, London, UK




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