Biography

Monica Zeng is a Spanish-Chinese creator whose practice moves between abstraction, texture, and psychological observation. Rooted in an enduring fascination with human behavior and development, her work explores vitality, perception, and the emotional tension between order and chaos.

Zeng began exploring visual art in 2013 through charcoal portraits and still lifes before gradually moving away from realism toward surrealism, optical illusion, and abstraction. What remains constant throughout her practice is a search for sensory intensity, paintings that invite visual attention and an almost tactile engagement.

Her recent body of work centers on texture as both image and experience. Through layered impasto techniques with diluted acrylic washes, she creates topographic surfaces that oscillate between fluidity and sharp physical presence. In her extruded paintings, continuous lines of saturated color form organic, brain-like structures that emphasize rhythm, density, and movement. Alongside these works, her large-scale abstract grids use vivid chromatic systems to evoke vitality, playfulness, and perceptual instability.

Across mediums and approaches, Zeng’s paintings function as extensions of an ongoing personal and artistic evolution, works driven by curiosity, experimentation, and the desire to make energy visible.