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Zhang Xiaogang

(Chinese, born 1958)

comrade (forget and remember series) by zhang xiaogang

Zhang Xiaogang

Comrade (forget and remember series), 2002

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heaven no. 4 by zhang xiaogang

Zhang Xiaogang

Heaven no. 4, 2010

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Biography

Timeline

1958
Born in Kunming, Yunnan Province, China
1982
Attended Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, Sichuan Province, China
Lives and works in Beijing, China

Exhibitions

2014
Zhang Xiaogang Exhibitions in 2014:
Zhang Xiaogang: Memory + ing, Daegu Art Museum, Korea
Zhang Xiaogang’s Oil on Paper, Pace Hong Kong
2013
Zhang Xiaogang Exhibitions in 2013:
Voyage and Awakening - FAAM - Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka
Zhang Xiaogang, Pace Gallery, New York
2012
Zhang Xiaogang Exhibitions in 2012:
Future Pass - National Taiwan Museum of Art, Taichung
39 Steps up the Corridor - Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, SAR
Future Pass World Exhibition - Today Art Museum, Beijing
Beijing Voice: Zhang Xiaogang, Pace Beijing
2011
Future Pass - Wereldmuseum, Rotterdam
Burning, Bright: A Short History of the Light Bulb - The Pace Gallery - 545 West 22nd Street, New York City, NY
Rising - 34FineArt, Cape Town
Chapelle vidéo #1 - musée d´art et d´histoire, Saint-Denis
Future Pass-from Asia to the World - Collateral event of the 54th Venice Biennale - Abbazia di San Gregorio, Venice
Portal: Contemporary Chinese Paintings, Prints, Photographs and Sculpture, ArtSpace/Virginia Miller Galleries, Coral Gables (Miami), FL
2010
16：9 - Zhang Xiaogang - Today Art Museum, Beijing (solo)
"Beijing-Havana - New Revolution art Contemporary Art "，National Art Museum of Cuba, Havana, Cuba
"Reshaping History - Chinart from 2000 to 2009"，China National Convention Center, Beijing, China
"Clouds - Power of Asian Contemporary Art", Soka Art Center, Beijing, China
"The Offical Opening of Minsheng Art Museum Thirsty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art", Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai
Recycling of the classic - limited edition art famous Carnival - Gallery Yang, Beijing
Behind the Mask - The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, West Midlands (England)
Clouds：Power of Asian Contemporary Art - Soka Art Center - Beijing, Beijing
Thirty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art - Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai
2009
19 Games-A Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, T Art Centre, Beijing, China
A Gift to Marco Polo, Venice International University, Venice, Italy
Zhang Xiaogang: The Records, Pace Beijing, China
The History of Self-reflection, Yunnan Provincial Museum, China
Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
INAMANIA exhibition, Akon Museum of Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
Zhang Xiaogang: The Records, Pace Beijing
The China Project: Zhang Xiaogang—Shadows in the Soul, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia (solo) (traveled to: Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, Tank Loft Art District, Chongqing, China)
2008
Writing on the Wall: Chinese New Realism and Avant-Garde in Eighties and Nineties, Groningen Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands
Case Studies of Artists in Art History and Art Criticism, SZ Art Center, Beijing, China
Our Future: The Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation Collection, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Revision, Pace Wildenstein, New York, NY (solo)
Avant-Garde China: Twenty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art, Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Facing the Reality: Chinese Contemporary Art, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
2007
From Southeast, Guangdong Museum of Fine Art, Guangzhou, China
From New Figurative Image to New Painting, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Black White Gray – A Conscious Cultural Stance, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
Zhang Xiaogang, Sara Hilden Art Museum, Tampere, Finland
Facing Reality exhibition, National Art Museum of China at Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludvig in Vienna, Austria
85 New Wave: The Birth of Chinese Contemporary Art at UCCA Beijing, Beijing, China
2006
Home, Solo Show, Beijing Commune, Beijing, China (solo)
Amnesia and Memory, Gallery Artside, Seoul, South Korea
The Blossoming of Realism – The Oil Painting from Mainland China since 1978, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, China
China Now: Fascination of a Changing World, SAMMLUNG ESSL Museum, Vienna, Austria
Reinventing Books in Chinese Contemporary Art, China Institute, New York, NY
Jiang Hu – Chinese Contemporary Art European and American Traveling Exhibition, Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
Food and Desire, South Silk Restaurant, Beijing, China
Zhang Xiaogang Exhibition, The Art Centre of Tokyo, Japan (solo)
2005
The Game of Realism, Beijing Commune, Beijing, China
Zhang Xiaogang 2005, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY (solo)

Public Collections

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Essl Museum—Kunst der Gegenwart, Klosterneuburg, Austria
Dongyu Museum of Fine Arts, Shenyang, China
FukuokaMuseum of Art, Japan
He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
InternationalConferenceCenter, Hong Kong
M+ Sigg Collection, Hong Kong
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Okinawa Prefectural Museum & Art Museum, Japan
Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena
Peter Stuyvesant Art Foundation, Amsterdam
Musée de Picardie, Amiens, France
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea
QueenslandArtGallery, Australia
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California
Shanghai Art Museum, China
Shenzhen Art Museum, Guangdong, China

Literature

2016
Lu, Peng Bloodlines: The Zhang Xiaogang Story. Edited by Rosa Maria Falvo and Bruce Gordon Doar. Milan: Skira, 2016.
2015
China 8: Contemporary Art from China on the Rhine and Ruhr (exhibition catalogue). Cologne: Stiftung für Kunst und Kultur e. V., 2015: 100–101, 214–217, illustrated; Fineberg, Jonathan and Gary G. Xu. Zhang Xiaogang: Disquieting Memories. London and New York: Phaidon Press Limited, 2015.
2014
Chanson, Maxime. 700 Artists’ Processes. Paris: editions jannick, 2014: 91; Huang, Zhuan ed. Zhang Xiaogang: Works, Documents and Research 1981–2013. Texts by Huang Zhuan, Yan Shanchun, Shao Hong, Zhou Guoping and Gu Zheng. Beijing: People’s Fine Arts Publishing House, 2014; Zhang Xiaogang’s Oil on Paper (exhibition catalogue). Text by Li Jia. Hong Kong: Pace Hong Kong, 2014.
2013
Art for Baby: Faces. Surrey: Templar Publishing, 2013: illustrated; Chinese Art Book. London: Phaidon Press Limited, 2013: 307, illustrated; Grovier, Kelly. 100 Works of Art that Will Define Our Age. Farnborough, United Kingdom: Thames & Hudson Ltd., 2013: illustrated; Mullis, Charlotte. Painting People: The State of the Art (Chinese edition). London: Thames and Hudson, 2013: 160–161, illustrated; Portrait of the Times: 30 Years of Chinese Contemporary Art (exhibition catalogue). Shanghai: Shanghai Literature & Art Press, 2013, illustrated; Zhang Xiaogang (exhibition catalogue). Text by Jonathan Fineberg. New York: Pace Gallery, 2013
2012
Beard, Lee, Adam Butler, Claire Van Cleave, Diane Fortenberry and Susan Stirling. The Art Book. London: Phaidon Press Limited, 2012: 575, illustrated; Beijing Voice: Zhang Xiaogang (exhibition brochure). Text by Jonathan Fineberg. Beijing: Pace Beijing, 2012; Beijing Voice: Zhang Xiaogang (exhibition catalogue). Text by Jonathan Fineberg. Beijing: Pace Beijing, 2013; Boccalatte, Suzanne and Meredith Jones, eds. Trunk. Volume Two: Blood. Surry Hills, Australia: Boccalatte Pty Ltd, 2012: 5, illustrated; Face: A Survey of Chinese Portraiture (exhibition catalogue). Shanghai: Minsheng Art Museum, 2012; Grant, Simon, ed. In My View: Personal Reflections on Art by Today’s Leading Artists. London: Thames & Hudson, 2012: 200–203, illustrated.
2011
Disintegration: 2011 Art Changsha (exhibition catalogue). Changsha: Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House, 2011; Zhang Xiaogang: 16:9 (exhibition catalogue). Beijing: Today Art Museum, 2011.
2010
50 Years at Pace (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Arne Glimcher et al. New York: The Pace Gallery, 2010: illustrated; Best 100 (exhibition catalogue). Japan: The Tokushima Modern Art Museum, 2010: 68, illustrated; Chalumeau, Jean-Luc. Comprendre l'art contemporain. France: Éditions du Chêne, 2010: 110, illustrated; Fineberg, Jonathan. Art Since 1940: Strategies of Being. 3rd edition. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 2010; Lord, Barry and Gail Dexter Lord. Artists, Patrons, and the Public: Why Culture Changes. Lanham, Maryland: AltaMira Press, 2010: 185, illus.; 186; Luo, Zhongli et al., ed. The Constructed Dimension – 2010 Chinese Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition (exhibition catalogue). Beijing: China Youth Publishing Group, 2010; Pollack, Barbara. The Wild, Wild East: An American Art Critic’s Adventures in China. Hong Kong: Time Zone 8, 2010: 108, 139, illustrated.
2009
Bonham-Carter, Charlotte and David Hodge. The Contemporary Art Book. London: Goodman, 2009: 245, illustrated; Gether, Christian, Stine Hoeholt and Maria Kappel Blegvad, ed. Chinamania (exhibition catalogue). Ishøj, Denmark: Arken Museum of Moderne Kunst, 2009; Godfrey, Tony. Painting Today. London: Phaidon Press Limited, 2009: illustrated; In the 1980s – Wen Pulin Archive of Chinese Avant-garde Art Exhibition (exhibition catalogue). Shanghai: Duolun Museum of Modern Art, 2009; Lord, Barry and Gail Dexter. Artists, Patrons and the Public: Why Culture Changes. Lanham, Maryland: AltaMira Press, 2010: 185, illustrated; Zhang Xiaogang: The Records (exhibition catalogue). Beijing: Pace Beijing, 2009; Zhang Xiaogang: Shadows in the Soul (exhibition catalogue). Brisbane: Queensland Art Gallery, 2009.
2008
China’s Revision: Focus Beijing (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Li Xianting and Beate Reifenscheid. Munich: Prestel Verlag, 2008; China Macht Druck : Zeitgenössische Chinesische Druckgrafik (exhibition catalogue). Heidelberg, Germany: Kehrer, 2008; Chiu, Melissa. Chinese Contemporary Art: 7 Things You Should Know. New York: AW Asia, 2008: illustrated; Facing China - Works of Art from the Fu Ruide Collection (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Christoph Fein, Fu Ruide, et al. Rotterdam: Veenman Publishers, 2008; Fan Di’an. China: Facing Reality. Texts by Edelbert Kob, Rainer Fuchs and Maria Brewinska. Nürnberg: Verlag Für Moderne Kunst, 2008; Half-Life of a Dream: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Logan Collection (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Neal Benezra, Jeff Kelley, Christoph Heinrich, Eleanor Heartney and Kent Logan. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2008: 15, 44, 45, 72, illustrated; Hendrikse, Cees, ed. Writing on the Wall: Chinese New Realism and Avant-Garde in the Eighties and Nineties (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Thomas Berghuis, Francesca Dal Lago, Sabine Wang and Eduardo Welsh. Rotterdam: NAi Publishers and Groninger Museum, 2008; The Revolution Continues: New Art From China (exhibition catalogue). Text by Jiang Jiehong. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc. in association with the Saatchi Gallery, 2008: illustrated; Smith, Karen. Nine Lives: The Birth of Avant-Garde Art in New China. China: TimeZone 8, 2008: 270–311, illustrated; Vine, Richard. New China, New Art. Munich: Prestel Verlag, 2008; Zhang Xiaogang. Texts by Ciacinto Di Pietrantonio, Huang Zhuan and Eleonora Battiston. Milan: Mondadori Electa S.p.A., 2008; Zhang Xiaogang: Revision (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Leng Lin and Jonathan Fineberg. New York: PaceWildenstein, 2008; Wu, Hong. Making History: Wu Hung on Contemporary Art. Hong Kong: TimeZone 8, 2008: 45, 72, 125, illustrated.
2007
China – Facing Reality (exhibition catalogue). Nürnberg: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2008; Chui, Melissa. Breakout: Chinese Art Outside China. Milan: Charta, 2007: 16–17; Erickson, Britta. China Onward: The Estella Collection, Chinese Contemporary Art, 1996–2006 (exhibition catalogue). Humlebaek: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2007: cover, 400–409, illustrated; Empty Nest: The Changing Face of Childhood in Art, 1880 to the Present (exhibition catalogue). Text by Lowell Pettit. New York: Nathan A. Bernstein & Co. Ltd., 2007: illustrated; Kearney, Fiona and Rene Zechlin. The Year of the Golden Pig – Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection (exhibition catalogue). Cork, Ireland: Lewis Glucksman Gallery, 2007; Zhang Xiaogang (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Riitta Valorinta, Julia Colman, Lu Peng and Virpi Nikkari. Tampere, Finland: Sara Hildén Art Museum, 2007.
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