Bio
Zhenyi Zheng is an illustrator, comic artist, and designer based in London. Her work draws on everyday experiences and explores ideas around nature, place, lifestyle, and relationships, resulting in colourful, accessible narrative illustrations. Blending the mundane with the strange, she often crafts silent narratives that explore the tension between the ordinary and the uncanny. Her work is influenced from sequential art and takes advantage of films and photography, and realised in flickering lines and soft colour. She situates her work in the space between reality and fiction, maintaining an objective tone and a sober perspective. She graduated from the Royal College of Art, where she studied Visual Communication on the Illustration pathway, and has since developed her practice through editorial, commercial, and publishing commissions.
Contact:
zhenyizheng1228@gmail.com
Selected Clients
Cake Zine(US), Huawei(CH), Alchemise Theatre (UK), Wandsworth London Borough Council(UK), Rimowa(CH), Shanghai Translation Publishing House (CH), The Palace Museum(CH), Ambit Magazine(UK), Beijing Science and Technology Press (CH).
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
Awards
AOI World Illustration Awards
2025 Shortlist, Professional Book Cover Category
2022 Shorstist, Alternative Publishing Category
3x3 Magazine Professional Show Annual No.22
2025
Merit Award
Society of Illustrators Annual 67
2024 Jury Selection in Book Series Category
Chelttenham Illustration Awards
2023
Winners in Emerging and Established Category
Creative Quaterly
2023
Runners-up
Communication Arts Illustration Annual Award
2022
Shortlist
Hiii Illustration Awards
2025/2023/2021 Shortlisted