Ma lives and works in London. She graduated with an MA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins in 2023. Recent exhibitions include the Royal Society of British Artists Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London (2025); Hug Moment, Via Francesco de Sanctis, Milan (2024); The Pain Need Be Seen, MA Fine Art Degree Show, Central Saint Martins, London (2023); the ING Discerning Eye Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London (2022); and Uneasy Rhythms, 253 Hoxton Street, London (2021).
Zhenzhen Ma paints women in states of observation, rest, longing and imagination. Her work begins with small, easily overlooked moments drawn from everyday life, memory and personal experience, which she rebuilds through simplified figures, animals and half-remembered scenes. What emerges is a painting practice concerned with tenderness, desire and self-reflection — the private worlds carried quietly alongside daily life.