 Zeng has lived and worked in Beijing since 1993, and has been exhibited all over the globe in venues such as the Shanghai Art Museum, National Art Museum of China, Kunst Museum Bonn, Kunstmuseum Bern, Santa Monica Art Centre, Art Centre, and Le Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris.Zeng was in art school from 1987 to 1991, and paid a particular interest in German expressionist painters.During his third year of schooling, he began instead to learn more about the actual approaches that the expressionists would take to painting.