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Zao Wou-Ki

(Chinese/French, 1920–2013)

Zao Wou-Ki

Portrait, 1951

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Zao Wou-Ki

Landscape with a man with his hands raised, 1951

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Biography

Timeline

1921: Born in Beijing, China into the ancient T’chao family
1935: Enrolled in the Fine Arts School of Hangzhou; remained there for 6 years
1941: Remained at the Arts School as a lecturer after finishing his studies and held his first exhibition in Chungking
1948: Moved to Paris with his wife, Lan-Lan
1949: Awarded first prize in a drawing competition, France
1951: Visited Switzerland for an exhibition of his engravings
1962: Commissioned to illustrate "La Tentation de l’Occident" by the French Minister of Culture, Andre Malraux
1964: Granted French citizenship
1965: Jean-Michel Meurice makes a film on Zao Wou-ki
1970: Led a seminar organised by the artist Oskar Kokoschka for the Salzburg music festival
1972: Started first ink works
1978: Met the Baron and Baroness Thyssen-Bornemisa during their visit to Paris
1982: Visited China for the opening of the Fragrant Hills Hotel designed by his good friend I.M.Pei. Zao created two very large works done in Chinese ink for the opening
1984: Awarded the Legion d’honneur by the French Ministry of Culture
1985: Went to China (Hangzhou) where he taught classes on painting and modern art
1993: Promoted by the President of the French Republic to Commandeur de la Legion d’honneur
1994: Travelled to Japan to be awarded the Imperial Prize (fine arts)
2003: Received at the French Académie des Beaux Arts November 26
2006: Made a ‘Grand Officier de l’Ordre de la Légion d’Honneur’, and decorated by the French President Jacques Chirac on 3rd November 2006 at the Palais de l’Elysée

Exhibitions

2018 - 2019: Zao Wou-Ki Selected Exhibitions in 2018-2019:
Zao Wou-Ki. L’espace est silence, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France (solo exhibition)
2018: Zao Wou-Ki Selected Exhibitions in 2018:
Zao Wou-Ki. Watercolor. Ink on paper. Porcelain, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York, United States (solo exhibition)
2017 - 2018: Zao Wou-Ki Selected Exhibitions in 2017-2018:
Infinites of Zao Wou-Ki, Asia University Museum of Modern Art, Taichung, Taiwan (solo exhibition)
2017: Zao Wou-Ki Selected Exhibitions in 2017:
Willem De Kooning - Zao Wou-Ki, Lévy Gorvy Gallery, New York, New York, United States
2016 - 2017: Zao Wou-Ki Selected Exhibitions in 2016-2017:
No Limits: Zao Wou-Ki, Asia Society Museum, New York, New York; traveled to Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine (solo exhibition)
2015: Zao Wou-Ki Selected Exhibitions in 2015:
Zao Wou-Ki, la lumière et le soufflé, Musée d’art de Pully, Pully, Switzerland (solo exhibition)
Zao Wou-Ki: Estampes – Peintures, Centre culturel de Chine à Paris, France (solo exhibition)
Zao Wou-Ki, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, Switzerland (solo exhibition)
2014: Zao Wou-Ki Selected Exhibitions in 2014:
Zao Wou-Ki: Retrospettiva 1920 – 2013, Pinacoteca comunale de Locarno, Locarno, Switzerland (solo exhibition)
2013: Zao Wou-Ki Selected Exhibitions in 2013:
Important Contemporary Chinese Artists, Alisan Fine Arts, ART HK 12, Hong Kong, China
2012: Zao Wou-Ki Selected Exhibitions in 2012:
The Prints of Zao Wou-Ki, Oriental Art & Cultural Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (solo exhibition)
2010: Zao Wou-Ki Selected Exhibitions in 2010:
Zao Wou-Ki, Fundação Arpad Szenes, Lisbon, Portugal (solo exhibition)
Zao Wou-Ki, Prieuré de Saint Cosme, Indre-et Loire, France (solo exhibition)
2009: Zao Wou-Ki Selected Exhibitions in 2009:
Zao Wou-Ki: Céramiques et oeuvres sur papier, Marlborough Monaco, Monte-Carlo, Monaco (solo exhibition)
Celebrating Zao Wou-Ki, French May Festival, Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong, China (solo exhibition)
2008: Zao Wou-Ki Selected Exhibitions in 2008:
Zao Wou-Ki, Prints and Illustrated Books, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, France; traveled to Suzhou Museum, Suzhou City, China (solo exhibition)
Zao Wou-Ki: Hommage à Riopelle et peintures récentes, Musée National des Beaux-arts du Québec, Québec, Canada (solo exhibition)
Zao Wou-Ki: Paper + China, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York (solo exhibition)
Zao Wou-Ki Retrospective, Bilbiothèque nationale de France, Paris, France (solo exhibition)
Château de Nemours, France
2007: Zao Wou-Ki Exhibitions in 2007:
Zao Wou-Ki, Paintings, Works on Paper, Ceramics 1947-2007, Chateau Musée de Nemours, France (solo exhibition)
Château de Nemours, France
Exploration: New Ink Art Shanghai, 3rd Shanghai Ink Biennial, Zhu Qizhan Art Museum, Shanghai, China (solo exhibition)
Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of Hong Kong’s return to China 2007, Central Library, Hong Kong, China
2006: Zao Wou-Ki Exhibitions in 2006:
Art & Imitation in China, The University of Hong Kong, China (solo exhibition)
Black and White Dream - India Ink, Suzhou Museum, Suzhou City, China (solo exhibition)
2005: Zao Wou-Ki Exhibitions in 2005:
Zao Wou-Ki, Paintings and India Ink, 1948-2005, Espace Bellevue, Biarritz, France (solo exhibition)
Zao Wou-ki Retrospective, Bridgestone Museum, Tokyo, Japan (solo exhibition); Bellevue, Biarritz, France (solo exhibition)
2004: Zao Wou-Ki Exhibitions in 2004:
Zao Wou-Ki, Bridgestone Museum of Art, Ishibashi Foundation, Tokyo, Japan (solo exhibition)
Zao Wou-Ki, The Quest of Silence: Paintings, Musée des Beaux Arts, Dunkerque, France (solo exhibition)
Zao Wou-Ki, Homages, Musée Fabre, Montpellier, France (solo exhibition)
Prints and Illustrated Books, Musée du Dessin et de l’Estampe Originale, Gravelines, France (solo exhibition)
Zao Wou-ki Retrospective, Musée des beaux-arts, Dunkerque, France (solo exhibition)
2003: Zao Wou-Ki Exhibitions in 2003:
Retrospective Zao Wou-ki curated by Markku Valkonen, Taidehalli, Helsinki, Finland (solo exhibition)
Zao Wou-ki Recent Works, Marlborough Gallery, New York,NY, USA (solo exhibition)
Zao Wou-ki Watercolours, Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong, China (solo exhibition)
Zao Wou-ki Retrospective, Musée du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France (solo exhibition)
2002: Zao Wou-Ki Exhibitions in 2002:
Signe(s) (regard crise sur des encres d’Henri Michaux à Zao Wou-ki), Kamel Mennour Gallery, Paris, France (solo exhibition)
2001: Zao Wou-Ki Exhibitions in 2001:
Zao Wou-Ki: Recent Inks, Institut Français, Barcelona, Spain (solo exhibition)
Zao Wou-ki Retrospective, IVAM Centre Julio Gonzalez, Valencia, Spain (solo exhibition)
Zao Wou-ki Retrospective, Musée d'Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium (solo exhibition)
2000: Zao Wou-Ki Exhibitions in 2000:
Zao Wou-ki, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo exhibition)
Musée du Petit-Palais, Paris, France
1999: Zao Wou-Ki Exhibitions in 1999:
Zao Wou-Ki, Paintings of the Last 20 Years, Centre d’Art Plastiques, Royan, France (solo exhibition)
Zao Wou-ki Works in Ink 1953-1999 Writing Room, Figeac, France (solo exhibition)
Maîtres de l’Encre: Chang Dai-Chien, T’ang Haywen, Zao Wou-ki, Musée de Pontoise, Paris, France
Zao Wou-ki Graphic Works, Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong, China (solo exhibition)
Zao Wou-ki 60 Years of Painting, Retrospective exhibition at the Shanghai Museum, Shanghai, China; Palace of Fine Arts, Beijing, China; Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China (solo exhibition)
1998: Zao Wou-Ki Exhibitions in 1998:
Galerie Thessa Herold, Madrid, Spain
Zao Wou-Ki, Retrospective, organized by Association Française d’Action Artistique, L’Oréal and the Shanghai Museum of Art, Shanghai, China; traveled to the Chinese Palace of Fine Arts, Beijing, China; and Palace of Fine Arts, Canton, China (solo exhibition)
Paintings, India Ink, Prints, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Angers, France (solo exhibition)
1997: Zao Wou-Ki Exhibitions in 1997:
Galerie Krugier-Ditesheim & Cie, Geneva, Switzerland (solo exhibition)
Lin & Keng Gallery, Taipei, China (solo exhibition)
Galerie Thessa Herold, Paris, France (solo exhibition)
1996: Zao Wou-Ki Exhibitions in 1996:
Zao Wou-Ki, A Retrospective, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan, China (solo exhibition)
Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, China (solo exhibition)
Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong, China (solo exhibition)
Art Galerie J. Bastien, Brussels, Belgium (solo exhibition)
Jan Krugier Gallery, New York, NY, USA (solo exhibition)
1995: Zao Wou-Ki Exhibitions in 1995:
Henri Michaux/Zao Wou-ki, une rencontre-une amitié Galerie Lucien Schweitzer, Luxembourg
1994: Zao Wou-Ki Exhibitions in 1994:
Zao Wou-Ki, Cuarenta años de pintura, 1954-1994, Centro Cultural de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico (solo exhibition)
Paintings and Drawing in Indian Ink, Centro Cultural de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico (solo exhibition)
1993: Zao Wou-Ki Exhibitions in 1993:
Zao Wou-Ki Retrospective, The Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan (solo exhibition)
First gallery exhibition in Hong Kong, Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong, China (solo exhibition)
1992: Zao Wou-Ki Exhibitions in 1992:
Works from 1980s, 1990s, Artcurial Gallery, Paris, France
1990: Zao Wou-Ki Exhibitions in 1990:
Retrospective, Musée des beaux-arts, Tours, France (solo exhibition)
1988: Zao Wou-Ki Exhibitions in 1988:
Zao Wou-Ki, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Metz, France (solo exhibition)
Retrospective show, Artcurial Gallery, Paris, France (solo exhibition)
Paintings and Drawing in Indian Ink, Galerie Krugier Diteschen, Geneva, Switzerland (solo exhibition)
1987: Zao Wou-Ki Exhibitions in 1987:
Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo exhibition)
1986: Zao Wou-Ki Exhibitions in 1986:
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, NY, USA (solo exhibition)
Galerie de France, Paris, France
Korea (solo exhibition)
1984: Zao Wou-Ki Exhibitions in 1984:
Krugier Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland (solo exhibition)
Zao Wou-Ki, 1984, Galerie de France, Paris, France (solo exhibition)
1983: Zao Wou-Ki Exhibitions in 1983:
Presentation of Collection of works, National Museum of History, Taiwan, China (solo exhibition)
Zao Wou-Ki ou se Libérer du Connu, Musée Ingres, Montauban, France; traveled to Espace des Cordeliers, Châteauroux, France; the National Museum of Fine Arts, Beijing, China; and Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou, China (solo exhibition)
1982: Zao Wou-Ki Exhibitions in 1982:
Paintings by Zao Wou-Ki, 1954-1981, Hong Kong Arts Center, Hong Kong (solo exhibition)
Zao Wou-Ki, A Solo Exhibition of Paintings, National Museum Art Gallery, Singapore (solo exhibition)
1981: Zao Wou-Ki Exhibitions in 1981:
Zao Wou-Ki: Paintings, India Ink, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, France; traveled through Japan to Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka; Grand Art Gallery, Tokyo-Nihonbashi, Tokyo; Fukui Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukui; National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; and Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura (solo exhibition)
1980: Zao Wou-Ki Exhibitions in 1980:
Large Paintings by Zao Wou-Ki, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi, Belgium (solo exhibition)
Large Paintings, 1964-1979, Musée d’Histoire et d’Art, Luxembourg, Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg (solo exhibition)
Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1977: Zao Wou-Ki Exhibitions in 1977:
14 paintings on exhibit, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1975: Zao Wou-Ki Exhibitions in 1975:
Zao Wou-Ki, Delta International Art Center, Beirut, Lebanon (solo exhibition)
Accrochage III, Musée national d'art moderne Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Zao Wou-Ki, 1971-1975, Galerie de France, Paris, France (solo exhibition)
1973: Zao Wou-Ki Exhibitions in 1973
Zao Wou-Ki: Paintings, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Neuchâtel, Switzerland (solo exhibition)
1970: Zao Wou-Ki Exhibitions in 1970
Zao Wou-Ki: Paintings, Sommerakademie für Bildende Kunst, Salzburger Künstlerhaus, Salzburg, Austria (solo exhibition)
Recent Works by Zao Wou-Ki, Galerie de France, Paris, France (solo exhibition)
1969: Zao Wou-Ki Exhibitions in 1969
Zao Wou-Ki, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montréal, Canada (solo exhibition)
1968: Zao Wou-Ki Exhibitions in 1968
Paintings by Zao Wou-Ki, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California (solo exhibition)
1967: Zao Wou-Ki Exhibitions in 1967
Zao Wou-Ki - Recent Works, Galerie de France, Paris, France (solo exhibition)
1965: Zao Wou-Ki Exhibitions in 1965
Zao Wou-Ki: A Retrospective, Paintings 1950-1964, Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany (solo exhibition)
Zao Wou-Ki: Watercolors, Engravings, Lithographs, Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna, Austria (solo exhibition)
1958: Zao Wou-Ki Exhibitions in 1958:
Kootz Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Galerie de France, Paris, France
1954: Zao Wou-Ki Exhibitions in 1954:
Zao Wou-Ki, The Cincinnati Museum of Fine Arts, Cincinnati, Ohio (solo exhibition)
1952: Zao Wou-Ki Exhibitions in 1952:
Galerie Pierre, Paris, France
Exhibitions in Washington, D.C., Chicago, IL, New York, NY, Basel, Switzerland, Lausanne, Switzerland, and London, UK
1947: Zao Wou-Ki Exhibitions in 1947:
Shanghai, China (solo exhibition)

Public Collections

: Raffles City, Singapore
: Musée de la Poste, Paris, France
: Musée Pierre Noël, Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, France
: Musée Olympique, Lausanne, Switzerland
: Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec, Québec, QC, Canada
: Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
: Musée Ingres, Montauban, France
: Musée de l’Hospice Saint-Roch, Issoudun, France
: Musée d’Histoire et d’Art, Luxembourg, Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg
: Musée Greuze, Tournus, France
: Musée Fabre, Montpellier, France
: Musée de l’Ancien Evêché, Evreux, France
: Musée d’Unterlinden, Colmar, France
: Musée du Dessin et de l’Estampe Originale, Gravelines, France
: Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tours, France
: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada
: Musée des Beaux-Arts, Orléans, France
: Musée des Beaux-Arts, Montréal, Canada
: Musée des Beaux-Arts, Le Havre, France
: Musée des Beaux-Arts et d’Histoire Naturelle, Valence, France
: Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Metz, France
: Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, “Fondation Gerald Cramer,” Geneva, Switzerland
: Musée d’Art Contemporain, Skopja, Macedonia
: Musée d’Art Moderne, Musées Royaux de Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium
: Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres, Paris, France
: Musée Bertrand, Châteauroux, France
: Manufacture Nationale des Gobelins, Paris, France
: Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico
: Museo Tamayo de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico
: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut
: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia
: Veranneman Foundation, Kruishoutem, Belgium
: The Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan
: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
: The Hakone Open-Air Museum, Hakone-Machi, Japan
: Tate Gallery, Liverpool, England
: Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
: Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
: Suzhou Museum, Suzhou, China
: Stanford University, Stanford, California
: Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao, Spain
: Sara Hildénin Taidemuseo, Tampere, Finland
: Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
: Nobutaka Shikanei Collection, Tokyo, Japan
: Nippon Broadcasting System, Inc., Tokyo, Japan
: National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
: National Institute of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
: Nagaoka Contemporary Art Museum, Nagaoka, Japan
: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
: Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
: Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
: Museu Nacional de Arte Moderna, Porto, Portugal
: Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
: Manufacture Nationale de la Savonnerie, Paris, France
: Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
: Atlanta Art Center, Atlanta, Georgia
: Atenaeum Museum, Helsinki, Finland
: Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, the Avery Brundage Collection, San Francisco, California
: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
: Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
: National Osaka Art Museum, Osaka, Japan
: Bridgestone Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
: National Museum of History, Taipei, Taiwan
: Taiwan Museum of Art, Taichung, Taiwan
: Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
: Folkwang Museu, Essen, Germany
: Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia
: Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, France
: Musée des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
: Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria
: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
: The Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, USA
: Hirshorn Museum, Washington D.C., USA
: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Boston, USA
: Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
: The Tate Gallery, London, UK
: The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Castagnola, Switzerland
: Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
: Lieu d’Art et d’Action Contemporaine, Dunkerque, France
: Berkeley University, Medical Research Center, Los Angeles, California
: Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, France
: Jakarta Museum, Jakarta, Indonesia
: Iwaki City Art Museum, Fukushima, Japan
: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
: Grand-Ducal Collections, Luxembourg, Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg
: Galerie der Stadt, Etta and Otto Stangl Collection, Stuttgart, Germany
: Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Genoa, Italy
: Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain
: Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
: Fragrant Hills Hotel, loan of Beijing City, Beijing, China
: Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris, France
: Fondation Vincent Van Gogh, Arles, France
: Bibliothèque Municipale, Nevers, France
: Fondation François Pinault, Paris, France
: Finch Art College Museum, New York, New York
: École Nationale Normale Supérieure, Lyon, France
: Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan
: Collection Nesto Jacometti, Pinacoteca Comunale Casa Rusca, Locarno, Switzerland
: Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine
: Civica Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Milan, Italy
: Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio
: Centro Cultural de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico
: Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
: Bibliothèque Royale Albert 1er de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium
: Fondation Collection Thyssen-Bornemisza, Castagnola, Switzerland
: Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

Zao Wou-Ki

(Chinese/French, 1920–2013)

Zao Wou-Ki

Zao Wou-Ki

Biography

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Exhibitions

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