Amy Zheng was born in Beijing and immigrated to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2009.  She has been passionate about painting and crafts for as long as she can remember, starting from the age of three.  She earned her second Master of Fine Arts degree from the California College of the Arts.  In 2020, she founded her own art studio, Mei Yun 美筠 (MY) Art Studio, named after her two children’s Chinese names.  She began teaching courses in painting, sculpture, animation, and fashion design at her studio, and she is also a board member and art teacher at the Richmond Art Center.

She has received the California Center for Cultural Innovation's Artist Grant, First Prize for Sculpture at the El Cerrito Art Association's Annual Art Show, the Art Impact Award and Merit Graduate Scholarship from the California College of the Arts, and a Professor's Nomination Award from Diablo Valley College. 

Her works have been exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and at the University of California, Berkeley.  She has also participated in art exchange programs in China, Europe and Japan.

The contents of her art works are deeply rooted from her girlhood memories, the rich histories of China, philosophies (eg. Taoism, Buddhism), life and death, cultural interactions, and nature.  She always feels emotionally a strong tie to many old artworks and antiques traveling across space and time that allows her to have dialogues with the ancients.  World art history has taught her the basis of art is irregularity and emotion, which she wants to synthesize into her own works.  She is more like a conservator of cultural relics, putting the fragments of history together into one piece to endow the works to have flesh and blood, and sentiment and righteousness.  Recently, she is interested in expressing her ideas in a more abstract and comprehensive way with deeper interaction with the audience.

She currently works on paintings, drawings, ceramics, experimental animation, installation, weaving, and fabric arts.  Her deepest quests are how to interact with nature; how to define herself; what a transcultural life brings us; how we face aging and death.