Phil Zheng Cai


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Systemetic Critique - Open Kitchen


Open Kitchen 003 - Other Tongue
Open Kitchen 002 - Fusion
Open Kitchen 001 - Assembly



  • Other Curatorial Projects


Working Conditions
I Want to Know, I Need to Know
Christ, Buddha, and the Jigsaw

Internet Archaeology
Split Level
The Duet’s Carnival

Tone Check: The Skins of Korean Contemporary Painting
At-Will Adaptation: The Exhibition, A Residency-then-Exhibition
At-Will Adaptation: The Residency, A Residency-then-Exhibition
(In)directions: Queerness in Chinese Contemporary Photography

Alienation ?
TRACES


  • Writings


Vu Duc Toan: Performing End Credits
Hafsa Nouman: Facsimile
Assimilational Antagonism: The third place bites back
Hans Haacke’s showing of an old work at Maxwell Graham
Stephanie Creaghan: The Crumbs of Our Time
Bui Thanh Tam: Outside In
Jenny Jisun Kim: Verses on Oxherding
A New Topology in Chinese and Vietnamese Contemporary Photography

Hot Coffee conversation, Anh Nguyen, Felisa Nguyen, and Huyen Tran
A Mirrored Interview
The Estate of Joshua Caleb Weibley at CHART Gallery asks if we still want to play
Hyeejin Bae: Eye Candy
Nomad Photography
queerness, chinese, contemporary, photography, (in)directions
Cynthia Gutiérrez at Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil
Wu Chi-Tsung solo exhibition at Katina Museum of Art
Xiong Wei: Becoming the Masses Amongst Elites
What has to be NFT’d?
Jean-Luc Moulène Solo Exhibition at Miguel Aubrey Gallery
Yoan Capote Solo Exhibition at Jack Shainman Gallery
Take a Step: Phil Zheng Cai on the Opening of M+ Museum








This essay was published in the thesis catalog “Anything Can Be A Hammer,” alongside the thesis exhibition of the Parsons MFA Photography in 2024.  























Images courtesy of the artists and Parsons the New School.
Special thanks to Billy Chen for the invitatioon to this meaningful project.