Zhang Xiaogang
1958 Born in Kunming
1982 Graduation form Sichuan Fine Arts Institute
Currently Lives and Works in Beijing
Solo Exhibitions:
2000 Zhang Xiaogang 2000, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
2003 Amnesia and Memory, Gallery of France, Paris, France
2004 Umbilical Cord of History: Paintings by Zhang Xiaogang, Hong Kong Art Center, Hong Kong, China
2005 Zhang Xiaogang 2005, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
2006 Home—Zhang Xiaogang, Beijing Commune, Beijing, China
2006 Zhang Xiaogang Exhibition, The Art Centre of Tokyo, Japan
2006 Amnesia and Memory, Artside Gallery, Souel, Korea
2007 Zhang Xiaogang, Sara Hilden Art Museum, Tampere, Finland
2008 Revision, Pace Wildenstein, New York, U.S.A.
2008 Chinese Paiting: Zhang Xiaogang, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech
2009 Record, Pace Beijing Gallery, Beijing, China
2009 Zhang Xiaogang: Shadows in the Soul, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Austrilia
Group Exhibitions:
2000 Man+Space: Kwangju Biennale 2000, Kwangju, Korea
2000 Transcending Boundaries, Montclair State University, New Jersey, U.S.A.
2000 Portraits De China Contemporaine, Espace Culturel Francois Mitterrand, Perigueux, France
2000 The First Collection Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2000 Hundred Years of Chinese Oil Painting, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
2000 Contemporary Art of China, Picardie Museum, Amiens, France
2001 The 1st Chengdu Biennial, Chengdu Contemporary Art Museum, Chengdu, China
2001 Dream—2001 Contemporary Chinese Art Exhibition, The Red Mansion, London, U.K.
2001 Towards A New Image: Twenty Years of Contemporary Chinese Art, National Art Museum of China, Beijing; Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai; Sichuan Art Museum, Chengdu; Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou, China
2001 It’s me, It’s us, Gallery of France, Paris, France
2001 Hot Pot, Artist Center of Oslo, Norway
2001 The 3rd Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2002 A Point in Time, Changsha Meilun Museum of Art, Changsha, China
2002 14 Chinese Artists / Made in China, Enrico Navarra Gallery, Paris, France
2002 Babel 2002, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea
2002 Review '77, '78, Gallery of Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, Chongqing, China
2002 Long March, Upriver Loft, Kunming, China
2002 The 1st Triennial of Chinese Art, Guangdong Museum of Fine Arts, Guangzhou, China
2002 Image is Power, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
2002 The Image of Concept, Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
2002 In Memory: The Art of after War, Sidney Mishkin Gallery, New York, USA
2002 East + West—Contemporary Art of China, Kunstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria
2003 From China with Art, Indonesian National Gallery, JakArta, Indonesian
2003 3 Face 3 Colors, ArtSIDE Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2003 Open Sky—Contemporary Art Exhibition, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
2003 The East Daybreak: 100 Years of Chinese Painting, Africa Museum, Paris, France
2004 The 5th Shanghai Biennial, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2004 Face to Face, Accor Gallery, Taiwan, China
2004 Beyond Boundaries, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China
2004 China Now, Tang Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
2004 The 1st Wuhan Fine Arts Archive Nomination, Art Gallery, Hubei Academy of Fine Arts, Wuhan, China
2004 Three Worlds, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China
2004 China, The Body Everywhere?, Museum of Contemporary Art, Marseilles, France
2005 The 2nd Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
2005 Take off-
2005 Always to the Front—Chinese Contemporary Art, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei,Taiwan, China
2005 Plato and His Seven Spirits, OCT Contemporary Art Center, Shenzhen, China
2005 Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Kunst Museum Bern, Bern, Switzerland; Hanburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
2005 Contemporary View Exhibition for Collector: China First Contemporary Art Almanac Exhibition, Millennium Museum of Art, Beijing, China
2005 2005 Invitational Exhibition of China Contemporary Oil Painting, Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
2005 Big River—New Period of Chinese Oil Painting and Retrospective Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
2005 Allegory, Hangzhou, China
2006 The Blossoming of Realism—The Oil Painting from Mainland China since 1978, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, China
2006 Reinventing Books in Chinese Contemporary Art, China Institute, New York, U.S.A.
2006 Jiang Hu—Chinese Contemporary Art European and American Traveling Exhibition, Tilton Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
2006 Food and Desire, South Silk Restaurant, Beijing, China
2006 China Now—Fascination of a Changing World, Sammlung Essl Museum, Vienna, Austria
2007 China-
2007 From Southeast, Guangdong Museum of Fine Art, Guangzhou, China
2007 From New Figurative Image to New Painting, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2007 Black White Gray—A Conscious Cultural Stance, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
2007 '85 New Wave: The Birth of Chinese Contemporary Art, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2008 Case-
2008 Our Future—The Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation Collection, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2008 Avant—Garde China: Twenty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art, Roppongi, Minato-
2008 Writing on the Wall: Chinese New Realism and Avant-
2008 Facing the Reality: Chinese Contemporary Art, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
2009 19 Games—A Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, T Art Centre, Beijing, China
2009 A Gift to Marco Polo—Venice International University, Venice, Italy
2009 Inamania, Arken Musuem, Copenhagen, Denmark
2010 Beijing–Havana-
2010 Reshaping History—Chinart from 2000 to 2009, CNCC, Beijing, China
2010 Clouds—Power of Asian Contempary Art, Soka Art, Beijing, China
2010 Thirty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art 1979-
2010 Behind the Mask, New Art Gallery Walsall, England, UK
2010 The Constructed Dimension, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China