Sitian Zeng (b. 1995, China) is a Glasgow-based artist and doctoral researcher at the Glasgow School of Art. Over the past decade, she has actively engaged in artistic practice and built her career through painting, mixed-media art, and moving images. Her practice-led research lies within interdisciplinary contexts across areas such as painting in the expanded field, subjectivity, identity, mass media, and the power structure in the post-digital age. Her practice-led doctoral research provides a solid theoretical foundation for her practice: As a practice-based researcher, she explores the entanglement of art practice and philosophy as she utilises the philosophical concept of the rhizome by philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari to develop a way of rhizomatic painting, which is characterised by spontaneity and flux. At the same time, she also uses the ‘slowness’ of painting to critique the fleeting nature of digital image culture, and she explores the performativity of painting and artists’ subjectivity through the lens of new materialism and vitalism. Sitian’s work has been nominated for international awards and exhibited in China, the UK and internationally. In addition, she has presented papers on contemporary painting and her artistic practice at various events across Europe, and she also teaches Fine Art in higher education in both China and the UK.