1958 Born Kunming, China
1982 Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, Chongqing Province, China
Solo Exhibitions
2009 "Zhang Xiaogang: The Records", Pace Beijing, Beijing, China
Zhang Xiaogang: Shadows in the Soul", Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
2009 The History of Self-reflection, Yunnan Provincial Museum, China
2008 "Revision", PaceWildenstein, New York, U.S.A.
Chinese paiting, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague
2007 Sara Hilden Museum, Tampere, Finland
2006 Gallery Artside - Seoul, Seoul
Home, Beijing Art Commune, China
2005 Max Protetch Inc., New York City, NY
2004 Galleria Davide Di Maggio - Milano, Milan
Zhang Xiaogang - Forget to remember, M3 - Galerie Gianluca Ranzi , Antwerp
2003 Zhang Xiaogang - Remember and Forget 2003, † Galerie de France, Paris
2000 Max Protetch Inc., New York City, NY
1999 Galerie de France, Paris
1989 Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, Chongqing
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010 "Clouds:Power Of Asian Contemporary Art",Soka Art Center,Beijing
Reshaping History, Beijing
Clouds - power of asian contemporary artists, Soka art centre, Beijing
The constructed dimension, National art museum of China, Beijing
Openning of Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai
2009 Beijing-Havana, National museum of art, La Habana, Cuba
"A Gift to Marco Polo", Venice International University, Venice, Italy
Inamania, Arken Museum, Copenhagen
19 Games, - a chinese contemporary art exhibition, T Art centre, Beijing
2008 "Waiting 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
"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
2008 CHINESE PAINTING: ZHANG XIAOGANG, FANG LIJUN, FENG MENGBO, RUDOLFINUM GALLERY, Prague
2007 ’85 New Wave - The Birth of Chinese Contemporary Art, UCCA - Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
China - Facing Reality, MUMOK Museum Moderner Kunst, Stiftung Ludwig im MQ, Vienna
China Now, Cobra Museum, Amstelveen .
Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere
2006 Art in Motion, Shanghai MOCA
2002-03 1st Guangzhou Triennale, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
2002 Chinese Modernity, Armandao Alvares Penteado Foundation, Sao Paulo
Image is Power,He Xiangning Art Museum,Shenzhen
Paris-Pekin, Espace Cardin,Paris
CHINaRT Museum Kuppersmuhle,Duisburg
2001 The Initial Image: Contemporary Art on Paper, Yibo Gallery, Shanghai
Hot Pot, Kunstnemes Hus, Oslo
Towards a New Image, 20 Years of Contemporary Chinese Painting, National Gallery, Beijing, Shanghai Art Museum, Sichuan Province Art Museum, Chengdu and Art Museum of Guangdong Province, Guangzhou
Passe-murailles, Musee de Picardie, Amiens
Rouges, Galerie Loft, Paris
C’est Moi, C’est Nous, Galerie de France, Paris
2000 Portraits de Chine Contemporaine, Espace Culturel F. Mitterand, Perigueux
Futuro, Contemporary Art Centre of Macau
Kwangju Biennial, Kwangju, Korea
The Dutch Gasunie, Groningen, Holland
The Chengdu Movement, Canvas International Art, Amsterdam
1998-2000 Inside Out, Asia Society, New York, MoMA San Francisco, Seattle, Monterey
1997-98 8+8-1, Selected Paintings by 15 Contemporary Artists, Schoeni Gallery, Hong Kong
Avant Garde Chinese Artists, Soobin Gallery, Singapore
China Now, Kulturprojekte, Basel
Faces and Bodies of the Middle Kingdom, Chinese Art of the Nineties, Gallery Rudolfinum, Prague
Awarded Coutts Art Foundation Award
1996-97 CHINA! Kunstmuseum, Bonn, travelled to Vienna, Singapore, Copenhagen and Warsaw
4 Points de Rencontre: Chine 1996, Galerie de France, Paris
1996 Asia Pacific Triennial, Australia
Reckoning with the Past, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
1995 46th Venice Biennale, Venice
Avant Gardes Artistiques Xineses, Centre d’Art Santa Monica, Barcelona
1994 22nd International Biennial of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1993 New Art from China: Post-1989, Marlborough Gallery, London
Chinese Fine Art in the 1990s: Experiences of China, Chengdu
Mao Goes Pop, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
1992 Guangzhou Biannual, Guangzhou
1991 I Don’t Want to Play Cards with Cezanne, Asia Pacific Art Museum, California
1989 China Avant Garde, China National Gallery, Beijing