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-An Exhibition of the Contemporary Art Collection, He Xiangning Art Museum, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen, China

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-Facing Reality, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria

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-Studies of Artists in Art History and Art Criticism, SZ Art Center, Beijing, China

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-ku, Tokyo, Japan

2008 Writing on the Wall: Chinese New Realism and Avant-Garde in Eighties and Nineties, Groningen Museum, Groningen, Netherland

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-Nueva Revolucion del Arte Contemporaneo Chino, National Art Museum of CubaHavanaCuba

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 1979-2009, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai

2010 Behind the Mask, New Art Gallery Walsall, England, UK

2010 The Constructed Dimension, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China