I am a Chinese artist working between Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Linyi.

My work comes from long-term observation of everyday life in Chinese cities. I photograph how people move through urban environments and how cities gradually shape the body, behavior, and emotional atmosphere of daily life.

I often photograph women because their gestures, posture, movement, and relationship to public space can quietly reveal the temperament of a city.

In recent years, my work has shifted away from straightforward documentary photography toward fragmentation and intervention, focusing more closely on the body itself — especially legs, feet, and hands — alongside experiments with video, drawing, and digital manipulation.

After returning to China from Australia, I continued working across cultural and creative fields while developing my own artistic practice.

Artist Cai Zhenxing

Selected Exhibitions

Old Home by the Moat,

Photographic project on the demolition of my family home

TALKING& Café, Linyi, China, 2026

Stagnation is Another Kind of Motion

Photography group exhibition

BANSHAN Gallery, Chengdu, China, 2022

10 Cities, 10 Photos

Online and public screen project during COVID-19

Tencent Binhai Mansion, Shenzhen, China, 2020

Moon in the Water

Site-specific installation

Fo Guang Shan Monastery, Yangzhou, China, 2019

To Demolish or Not: Baishizhou

Pop-up photographic intervention on demolition fences

Baishizhou Village, Shenzhen, China, 2016

Grand Design: Hand Made

Public installation (bicycle restoration project)

Xintiandi, Shanghai, China, 2014

The Unreasonable

Public installation (reusing a skateboard)

Shanghai Design Week, Shanghai, China, 2014

Nowhere to Live

Site-specific installation involving suspended human figures

M50 demolition site, Shanghai, China, 2009

Collaborative Projects

Boundless

Experiential landscape installation by FABLETANG

Taikoo Li, Chengdu, China, 2024

Dream Weavers

Experiential installation by FABLETANG

Plaza 66, Shanghai, China, 2024

Initiatives

Hangzhou × Bali Artist Sister Village Project

Co-initiator, initiated and led by curator Zhao Yongkang

Hangzhou and Bali, 2025–Present


Ru Ware Exhibition

Across Japan, Taiwan, and mainland China,

Co-initiator, led by curator Shandy Ho

Nara, Tokyo, Taipei, Shanghai and Yangzhou, 2017–2019 

Artist Cai Zhenxing