ZHANG XIAOGANG 张晓刚
1958 Born in Kunming，China 1982 Graduation from Oil Painting Department of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute 1986 Teacher of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute 1999 Moved to Beijing as an artist 2010 Professor of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute
Currently lives and works as an artist in Beijing
Solo Exhibitions
Multiple Narratives: Zhang Xiaogang 1975-2018, United Museum, Wuhan, China, 2018 Stage: Zhang Xiaogang 2008-2018, Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan, China, 2018 The Reunion of Poetry and Philosophy, Prague City Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic, 2018 Sol LeWitt & Zhang Xiaogang, Pace Beijing Gallery, Beijing, China，2016 ZHANG XIAOGANG MEMBER+ING, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea，2014 ZHANG XIAOGANG, Pace Wildenstein, New York , U.S.A.，2013 Beijing Voice: Zhang Xiaogang, Pace Beijing Gallery, Beijing, China，2012 16:9, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China，2010 Record, Pace Beijing Gallery, Beijing, China，2009 Zhang Xiaogang: Shadows in the Soul, Queensland Art Gallery（GOMA), Brisbane, Australia，2009 Revision, Pace Wildenstein, New York, U.S.A.,2008 Chinese Painting: Zhang Xiaogang, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic, 2008 Zhang Xiaogang, Sara Hilden Art Museum, Tampere, Finland，2007 Home – Zhang Xiaogang, Beijing Commune Gallery, Beijing, China，2006 Amnesia and Memory, Artside Gallery, Seoul, Korea, 2006 Zhang Xiaogang, Tokyo Art Center, Tokyo, Japan, 2006 Zhang Xiaogang 2005, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, U.S.A.，2005 Umbilical Cord of History: Paintings by Zhang Xiaogang, Hong Kong Art Center, Hong Kong，2004 Amnesia and Memory, Gallery of France, Paris, France，2003 Image is Power：the art of Wang Guangyi, Zhang Xiaogang and Fang Lijun, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China，2002 Zhang Xiaogang 2000, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, U.S.A.，2000 Les Comrades, Gallery of France, Paris, France，1999 Bloodline: The Big Family 1998, Hanart Gallery, Taiwan，1998 Bloodline: The Big Family 1997, Gallery of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China，1997 Lost Dreams, Gallery of the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, Chongqing, China，1989
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019 - Resonating with the Times: Sichuan Oil Painting Invitational Exhibition, Chengdu Museum, Chengdu, China - Under Construction, Tank Shanghai, Shanghai, China - A Fairy Tale in Red Times：works from the white Rabbit collection，National Gallery of Victoria， Melbourne，Australia - Forget Sorry Grass: An Archaeology of Feminine Time, Times Art Museum, Guangzhou, China - Zhang Xiaogang·Mao Yan·Qiu Xiaofei, Pace HK, HK - Station Project, JTBC Building, Seoul, Korea - The Gaze of History, Jupiter Museum of Art, Shenzhen, China
2018 - Practice and Exchange: An Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art，UCCA，Beijing, China - Art and China after 1989, Solomon R Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain - Turning Point – 40 Years of Chinese Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China - Ambush on All Sides, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China - Art History, Shaped by 40 Artists from 1978 to 2018, Powerlong Museum, Shanghai, China
2017 - The Silk: Road and Celestial Clothes, Tai Temple, Beijing, China - Metamorphosis: Huangzhuan Memorial Invitation Exhibition, OCAT, Shenzhen, China - Chinese Dreams, Sandra and David Bakalar Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, U.S.A. - Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World, Guggenheim Museum, New York, U.S.A. - Anren Biennale, Anren Village, Chengdu, China - Texture of Time- The Art Work Exhibition of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
2016 - Four Decades of Chinese Contemporary Art，Artistree, HK - Chinese Whispers, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland - Sense & Sensibility 10 Contemporary Artists, Zhangjiang Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai, China - An Exhibition about Exhibitions: Displaying Experimental Art in the 1990s，OCAT, Beijing, China - Bentu: Chinese artists in a time of turbulence and transformation, Foundation Louis Vuitton, Paris, French - Busan Biennale 2016 Part 1: An /Other avant-garde, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Korea - Scarcity & Supply - The 3rd Nanjing International Art Festival, Baijia Lake Museum, Nanjing, China
2015 - Breaking the Image- Methods in the Treatment of Imagery by Contemporary Artists from China, Sishang Museum, Beijing, China
- Wandering souls: Tribute to Gauguin, Tahiti Museum, Tahiti - China 8 –Contemporary Art from China at Rhine & Ruhr, NRW-Forum Düsseldorf/MKM Museum Küppersmühle Duisburg, Dusseldorf/Duisburg, Germany - The China Power- Beijing Minsheng Art Museum Opening Exhibition, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China - A New Dynasty - Created in China，ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark
2014 - Hanart 100: idiosyncrasies, Hong Kong Arts Centre, HK - Myth History: Yuz Collection of Contemporary Art, Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China - Right is Wrong: Four Decades of Chinese Art from the M+ Sigg Collection, Bildmuseet Umeå University, Switzerland - Welcome to Parkview Green - Parkview Contemporary Art Collection, The Parkview Museum, Beijing, China - Social Landscape, Chengdu International Cultural Art Center, Chengdu, China
2013 - All You Need Is Love: From Guagall to Kusama and Hatsune Miku, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
- Passage to History: 20 Years of La Biennale di Venezia and Chinese Contemporary Art, Museum of
Contemporary Art Chengdu / Arsenale di Venezia", China / Italy
- Pure Views: New Painting from China, Santa Monica Contemporary Art Central, Barcelona, Spain
- Portrait of the Times: 30 Years of Chinese Contemporary Art, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
- Beijing Voice: My Mate, Pace Beijing Gallery, Beijing, China
2012
- Face, Min Sheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
- The 7th Shenzhen Sculpture Biennial: Serendipitous Information-Art is Not a System-Nor is it World, OCT
Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen, China
- Passing Through Memory, Jinnji Lake Art Museum, Suzhou, China
- Future Pass World Exhibition, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
- Through all ages——Long Museum Opening Series Exhibitions, Long Museum, Shanghai, China
2011
- No Absence: Inaugural Exhibition of Wenxuan Art Museum 2011, Wenxuan Art Museum, Chengdu, China
- Opening of Chengdu MOCA Collection History: China New Art, Chengdu MOCA, Chengdu, China
- Pure Views: Contemporary Art Exhibiton, Music Park, Chengdu, China
- Surreal Versus Surrealism in Contemporary Art，IVAM Museum，Valencia，Spain
2010
- The Official Opening of Min Sheng Art Museum: Thirty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art 1979-2009, Min
Sheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
- Reshaping History: Chinart from 2000 to 2009, CNCC, Beijing, China
- Behind the Mask, The New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK
- The Constructed Dimension – 2010 Chinese Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition, National Art Museum
of China, Beijing, China
- Negotiations – The 2nd Today’s Documents, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
- Pure Views- New Painting from China, Louise Blouin Foundation, London, England
- Minimum, Shangyuan Art Museum, Beijing, China
- Art OCT- An Exhibition of Contemporary Art Collection for OCT 25th Anniversary, OCAT, Shen Zhen, China
2009
- A Gift to Marco Polo: A Collateral Event for the 53rd Biennale di Venezia, Venice International University,
Venice, Italy
- CINAMANIA, Arken Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Wall Journey: Expedition into Divided Worlds, Germany Embassy, Beijing, China
- Report to the Motherland – Sixty Years of Art in the New China, National Art Museum of China, Beijing,
China
2008
- Writing on the Wall: Chinese New Realism and Avant-Garde in the Eighties and Nineties, Groningen Museum,
Groningen, The Netherlands
- Liu Lan Collection, Beijing Commune, Beijing, China
- Facing the Reality: Chinese Contemporary Art, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
- Artists in Art History, SZ Art Center, Beijing, China
- Artists Through the Eyes of a Critic, SZ Art Center, Beijing, China - Today's China, the Belvue Museum, Brussels，Belgium - Our Future: The Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation Collection, UCCA, Beijing, China
- Half-Life of a Dream: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Logan Collection, SFMOMA, San Francisco, U.S.A.
- Avant-Garde China: Twenty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art, The National Art Center, Tokyo. Traveled to:
The National Museum of Art, Osaka; Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan
- Encounnters, Pace Beijing Gallery, Beijing, China - Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, California, U.S.A - Christian Dior and Chinese Artists, UCCA, Beijing, China
2007
- Chinese Contemporary Sots Art, The State Tretykov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
- From New Figurative Image to New Painting, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
- Strategy on Paper: Works on Paper Invitational, Square Gallery of Contemporary Art, Nanjing, China
- Black White Gray: A Conscious Cultural Stance, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China - Facing the Reality: Chinese Contemporary Art, Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation, Vienna, Austria - Chinese Contemporary Art, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russian - ’85 New Wave: The Birth of Chinese Contemporary Art, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2006
- The 1st Annals Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art, The China Millennium Monument, Beijing, China
- JIANG HU: Part Ⅰ, Tilton Gallery/ Tilton Gallery，NY, U. S. A
- China Now: Art in Times of Change, Sammlung Essl Museum, Vienna, Austria
- Shu: Reinventing Books in Chinese Contemporary Art, China Institute, New York, U.S.A.
- Food and Desire, Artside Gallery, Seoul, Korea
- The Blossoming of Realism – The Oil Painting from Mainland China Since 1978, Taipei Fine Arts Museum,
Taipei
- Create History Commemoration Exhibition of Chinese Modern Art in 1980s, OCT- Contemporary Art
Terminal of He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
2005 - Take off – An Exhibition of the Contemporary Art Collection in the He Xiangning Art Museum, He Xiangning Art Museum， Shenzhen, China - The Game of Realism, Beijing Commune, Beijing, China - Mahjong: Chinesische Gegenwartskunst aus der Sammlung Sigg, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland - Plato and His Seven Spirits, OCAT, Shenzhen, China - Big River – New Period of Chinese Oil Painting and Retrospective Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
2004
- China Now-Contemporary Art Exhibition, Tang Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand - China, the Body Everywhere? Museum of Contemporary Art, Marseilles, France - The First Wuhan Nominative Literature Exhibition of Fine Arts, Hubei Museum of Art, Wuhan, China - Through the Artists’ Eyes- A Tribute to Manfred Schoeni, Schoeni Art Gallery, Beijing, China - Hua Jia Di, Art Seasons China, Beijing, China. Traveled to: Art Seasons, Singapore - The 5th Shanghai Biennial, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China - Dreaming of the Dragon’s: Nation Contemporary Art Exhibition from China, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland - Three Worlds: Wang Guangyi, Zhang Xiaogang, Zeng Hao, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai,
China;
2003
- From China with Art — The Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Painting, Indonesian National Gallery,
Jakarta, Indonesia
- CHINA! 3 Faces + 3 Colors, Artside Gallery, Seoul, Korea
- Chongqing Chilis American Tours 2003-2004，the Art Museum of Ohio State University, Columbus, U.S.A.
- The East Daybreak: 100 Years of Chinese Painting, Museum of African and Oceanic Art, Paris, France
- Open Sky, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
2002
- In Memory: The Art of Afterward, Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, New York, U.S.A.
- East + West: Contemporary Art of China, Kunstler Haus, Vienna, Austria
- Concept Image: 2002 China Modern Oil Painting Invitation Exhibition, Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen
- CHINaRT: Contemporary Chinese Art，Duisburg Museum，Duisburg，Germany
- Paris-Peking, Espace Cardin, Paris, France
- The First Guangzhou Triennial: Reinterpretation: A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art (1990- 2000),
Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
2001
- Hot Pot: Chinese Contemporary Art, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway
- 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
- Dream 2001: Chinese Art in the 21st Century, The Red Mansion Gallery, London, U.K.
- Who am I, Kempinski Hotel, Beijing
- First Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu Contemporary Art Museum, Chengdu, China
2000
- Passe-Murailles. Nouvelles scènes de l'art contemporain chinois, Le Musée de Picardie Amiens, France
- Portraits de Chine Contemporaine, Espace Culturel Francois Mitterand, Perigueux, France
- Kwangju Biennale 2000: Man + Space，Kwangju, Korea
- Invisible Boundary: Metamorphosed Asian Art- Traveling Exhibition: Asian Section of Kwangju Biennale
2000, The Utsunomiya Museum of Art，Utsunomiya; City Performing Arts Center, Niigata; Japan
- Future: Chinese Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Center of Macau, Macau
1999
- 1999 Open Channels: The First collecting exhibition of Donyu Museum of Fine Arts, Donyu Museum of Fine
Arts, Shenyang, China
- Door of the New Century, Chengdu Art Scene, Chengdu, China
- Faces: Entre Portrait et Anonymat, Namur art center, Namur, Belgium
1998
- Inside Out-New Chinese Art 1998-2000, Asia Society Galleries, New York, The USA; P.S.1 Contemporary
Art Center, New York, U.S.A.; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and The Asian Art Museum of San
Francisco, San Francisco, U.S.A.; Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Monterrey, Mexico; Tacoma Art Museum
and the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, U.S.A.
- Margaret and Contemporary Art, Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Oostende, Belgium
1997
- Red and Grey: Eight Avant-Garde Chinese Artists, Soobin Art Gallery, Singapore
- Hundred Years of Chinese Portrait, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
- Chinese Art of the 1990s: Faces and Bodies of The Middle Kingdom, Gallery Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech
Republic
- 8+8-1 Selected Paintings by 15 Contemporary Artists, Schoeni Art Gallery, HK
1996
- The 1st Academic Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art, National Art Museum of China, Beijing; The Art
Museum of Capital Normal University, Beijing; Hong Kong Art Center, Hong Kong
- Reality: Present and Future, Beijing International Art Museum, Beijing, China
- The Second Asia-Pacific of Contemporary Triennial, Queensland Art Gallery（GOMA）, Queensland, Australia
- Reckoning with the Past: Contemporary Chinese Paintings, Fruit Market Gallery, Edinburgh, U.K.
- China! New Art & Artists, Kunst Museum Bonn, Germany
- 4 Points de Rencontre. Chine，Gallery of France, Paris, France
1995
- Des del Pais del Centre: avantguardes artistiques xineses, Barcelona Contemporary Art Museum, Barcelona,
Spain
- La Biennale di Venezia 46. Esposizione Internazionale d'arts- Identity and Alterity: Figures of the Body 1895-
1995, Venice, Italy
- Der Abschied Von Der Ideologie: Neue Kunst Aus China, Hamburg, Germany
1994
- 22nd International Biennial of Sao Oaulo, St. Paul, Brazil
- ’94 Oil Painting Nomination Exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
1993
- Chinese Fine Arts in 1990’s: Experiences in Fine Arts of China, Sichuan Art Gallery, Chengdu, China
- Chinese New Art from Post-1989, Hong Kong Art Center, Hong Kong
- Mao Goes Pop, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney/ National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
- The 2nd Annual Exhibition of Chinese Oil Painting, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
1992
- The Guangzhou Biennial: Oil Paintings from the 90’s, Central Hotel Art Center, Guangzhou, China
1991
- "I Don’t Want to Play Cards with Cézanne” and Other Works: Selections from the Chinese “New Wave” and
“Avant-Garde” Art of the Eighties, Pacific Asia Museum, California, U.S.A.
1989
- China Avant-Garde, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
1988
- Art from Southeast of China, Sichuan Art Gallery, Chengdu, China
1986
- The 3rd Neo-Realism, the library of Yunnan Province, Kunming, China
- The 4th Neo-Realism, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute，Chongqing, China
1985 - Chinese Vision, The Art Gallery, University of Florida，U.S.A. - Neo-Realism, Shanghai and Nanjing, China - Progress Chinese youth art exhibition, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
Collection
M+ Museum Shanghai Art Museum Shenzhen Art Museum Long Museum He Xiangning Art Museum Yuz Museum How Art Museum OCAT Hubei Institute of Fine Arts Museum
United Museum Hubei Museum Fukuoka Museum (Japan)
The Tokushima Modern Art Museum (Japan)
Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art（Korea）
Daegu Art Museum (Korea)
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary (Korea)
Pacific Asia Museum（U.S.A.）
SFMOMA （U.S.A.）
New Museum Of Contemporary Art （U.S.A.）
Fogg Art Museum（U.S.A.）
The Guggenheim Museums and Foundation（U.S.A.）
The Museum of Modern Art （U.S.A.）
Tate Modern (Britain)
Centre Pompidou (France)
Musée de Picardie (France)
Deutsches Historisches Museum (Germany)
Queensland Art Gallery (Australia)
Islamic Arts Museum (Islamic)
Taikang Insurance Group (Beijing)
Faurschou Foundation (Denmark)
Foundation Louis Vuitton Pinault Collection（France）