ZHANG HUAN




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Zhang Huan

1965     Born An Yang City, He Nan Province, China
Lives and Works in Shanghai and New York
Education

1993 MA, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
1988     BA, He Nan University, Kai Feng, China
Selected Solo Exhibition

2008     Zhang Huan: Blessings, Pace Wildenstein, New York, USA
Zhang Huan: Altered States, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

2007     Zhang Huan: Altered States, Asia Society, New York, USA
Zhang Huan: Ash, Haunch of Venison, London, England
Zhang Huan: Berlin Buddha, Haunch of Venison, Berlin, Germany
Zhang Huan, PhotoEspana 2007, Madrid, Spain
Zhang Huan-Drawings, Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin, Germany

2006     Zhang Huan, Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin, Germany
Zhang Huan, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, Australia

2005     Zhang Huan: Seeds of Hamburg, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA

2004     Zhang Huan: Seeds of Hamburg, Norton Museum of Art, Florida, USA
Zhang Huan, La Fabrica Galeria, Madrid, Spain
Zhang Huan, Tri Postal, Lille 2004, Cultural Capital of Europe, Lille, France

2003     Zhang Huan, Bochum Museum, Bochum, Germany
Zhang Huan, Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin, Germany
Zhang Huan, Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, Danmark

2002     Zhang Huan, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

2001     Zhang Huan, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, USA
Zhang Huan, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Zhang Huan, Museo das Peregrinacions, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Zhang Huan: Famliy Tree, Galerie Albert Benamou, Paris, France

2000     My America, Deitch Projects, New York, USA
Zhang Huan Survey, Adam Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Zhang Huan, Cotthem Gallery, Belgium
Zhang Huan, Cotthem Gallery, Barcelona, Spain

1999     Zhang Huan, Works From 1994-1998, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, USA
Zhang Huan: Performance on Video, Artspace, Sydney, Australia
Zhang Huan: Performance, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand

1988     Zhang Huan, He Nan University, Kai Feng, China
Selected Group Exhibition

2008     Body Language: Chinese Photography, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Half-Life of a Dream: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Collection of Kent and Vicki Logan, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
Person of the Crowd, Neuberger Museum of Art, New York, USA
Avant-garde China, Twenty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
China Gold, Contemporary Chinese Art, Museum of Maillol, Paris, France
Sculpture at Pilane 2008, Tjorn, Sweden

2007 Exposed: Defining Moments in Photograph from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
ZHUYI! CHINA. Contemporary Photography from China, Artium of Alava, Center Museum of Contemporary Art, Spain
Made in China, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
Water, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Timer.01, Intimacy, Triennale Bovisa 2007, Milan, Italy
Voiceless: I feel therefore I am, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, Australia
Red Hot: Asian Art Today from the Chaney Family Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
The Quiet Gesture, Recent Chinese Art, The Newark Museum, Newark, USA
Contemporary Combustion: Chinese Artists in America, The New Britian Museum of American Art, New Britian, USA
An Instinctive Eye: A Selection of Contemporary Photographs from the Sir Elton John Collection, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine
Grey Water, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
All for Art! Great Collections Among Us, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Quebec, Canada
Photographies, New Acquisition 2003-2007, Center Pompidou, Paris, France
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now, The Museum of Modern Art , New York , USA

2006 Shoot the Family, Cranbrook Art Museum, Michigan, USA
Making a Scene, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel
Reverence, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, New York, USA
Fever Variations, The 6th Gwangju Biennale 2006, Gwangju, Korea
Radar - Selection from the Logan Collection, Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA
Drawing as Process in Contemporary Art, Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA

2005 The Museum Collections, New Presentation of Art Works from 1960 to the Present Day, Center Pompidou, Paris, France
Mahjong, Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Swizerland
Locus Loppem 2005, Kunsthalle Lophem, Lophem, Belgium
Between Skin and Orgasm--The Alchemistic Body, Kunsthalle Lophem, Center for Contemporary Art, Lophem, Belgium
Monuments for the USA, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA
The Great Beyond, Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun, Swizerland
Text Me: An Exploration of Body Language, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, Australia
On the Edge: Contemporary Chinese Artists Encounter the West, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, California, USA
Person of the Crowd, Contemporary Museum, Maryland, USA
Future Face, National Museum of Natural Science, Taiwan
The Wall, Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art, The China Millennium Monument Art Gallery, Beijing, China
The Pictures of Dorian Gray, Galeria de Arte Mexicano, Mexico City, Mexico
Fusion: Aspects of Asian Culture in the MUSAC Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Leon, Spain

2004 Witness, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Regeneration, Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US, Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Pennsylvania, USA
Face/off, The Association of Arts and Crafts Pforzheim, Pforzheim, Germany
Dialogue with Pop, The Tank, Spaceworks Gallery, New York, USA
The Art Project Goetzen, Houses of an Idol, Frankfurt (Oder)/Slubice, Germany/Poland
The Amazing and the Immutable, University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Florida, USA
Supernova: Art of the 1990s from the Logan Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, International Center of Photography, New York, and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
Me, Myself & I, University Galleries, Florida Atlantic University, Florida, USA
Supernova: Art of the 1990s from the Logan Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
Queens International 2004, Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA
Camera/Action: Performance and Photography, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, USA
Constructed Identities, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita,
USA
Anthro/Socio, The: Artist: Network, New York, USA

2003 Somewhere Better Than This Place, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, USA

2003 Beaufort, Triennial for Contemporary Art by the Sea, The PMMK, the Museum of Modern Art, Ostend, Belgium
Art Project, DiverseWorks Artspace, Houston, USA
Temporal Mood, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, USA
Rituals, Academy of Arts, Berlin, Germany
Family Ties, Peabody Essex Museum, Massachusetts, USA
Body Politics, Elga Wimmer Gallery, New York, USA
Windstil, Cotthem Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Banquet, Metabolism and Communication, ZKM, Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
Photo Espana 2003, International Photography Festival, Madrid, Spain
Phantom of Desire: Visions of Masochism in Art, Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria
Me and More, Museum of Art Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
Come Rally, Basque Museum of Contemporary Art (Artium), Vitoria, Spain
Skin Deep, The Trento and Rovereto Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rovereto, Italy
Performance and Almost Performance, Reina Sofia National Museum, Madrid, Spain
BQE, White Box, New York, USA
Blood Lines & Connections, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, USA
Full Frontal: Contemporary Asian Artists from the Logan Collection, Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA
Spiders and Flies, Newcontemporaries, Sydney, Australia
New Zone, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsow, Poland

2002 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum, New York, USA
Skin Talks, Musee de la Civilisation, Quebec, Canada
Attachment+, Kunsthalle Lophem, Center for Contemporary Art, Belgium
China Contemporary Art Exhibition--Red Continent, Gwangju Art Museum, Korea
Paisajes del Cuerpo, Sala Zapateria 40, Pamplona, Spain
La Mirada Ajena, Basque Museum of Contemporary Art(Artium), Vitoria, Spain
SAM Collects, Contemporary Art Projects, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA
The Gift, Generous Offerings, Threatening Hospitality, The Bronx Museum of Art, New York, USA
Subjectivity: Photographs of Themselves, Arizona State University Art Museum, Arizona, USA

2001     Yokohama 2001: International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Pacific Yokohama, Japan
Translated Acts, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany, and Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA
The Gift, Center of Contemporary Art, Siena, Italy
Subject Plural: Crowds in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Museum, Texas, USA
Metamorphosis and Cloning, Museum of Contemporary Art in Montreal, Canada
Naked, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, USA
Lateral Thinking, Art of the 1990s, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, USA

2000     Art and Religion, Parkabdij Heverlee, Belgium (Organized by Museum S.M.A.K., Gent, Belgium)
On the Edge of the Western World, Yerba Buena Center of the Arts,San Francisco, USA
Emotional Rescue: The Contemporary Art Project Collection, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, USA
Utopia, Rogaland Kunstmuseum, Stavanger, Norway
Betreff, Expo 2000, Themenpark, Basic Needs, Hannover, Germany
Waterfront--Cultural Bridge 2000, Helsingborg Museum, Sweden and Danmark
Sharing Exoticisms, 5th Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France
The Standard Projection: 24/7, The Standard Hotel, Los Angeles, USA
Video via Venice, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA
Socialisms, Special Exhibition / Stockholm Art Fair, Sweden
6 Signals: Video by Contemporary Artists, Cheekwood, Nashville, USA
Potent /Present: Selections from the Vicki and Kent Logan Collection, CCAC Institute, Oakland, USA
Recent Acquisitions, The Doron Sebbag Art Collection, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Isael

1999     The Century of the Body: Photoworks 1900-2000, Culturgest, Lisbon, and Musee de LElysee, lausanne, France
Last Paradise, Presenca Galeria, Portugal
Self-Portrait, Mercer Union, Centre for Contemporaty Art, Toronto, Canada
Five Continents and a City: Second International Salon of Painting, Museum of Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico
Best of the Season, Aldrich Museum of Contemporaty Art, Rigefield, USA
Stories, A/C Projects, New York, USA
Summit, Galerie 5020, Salzburg, Austria
Art-Worlds in Dialogue, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Risk Cinema, Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
Zhang Huan: A Video Survey 1994-1998; Performance Art from China, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
48th La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
The Kent and Vicki Logan Collection, San Francisco, USA
Contemporary Collectors, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, USA
Transience: Chinese Art at the End of the Twentieth Century, The Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, USA
In Your Face, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, USA

1998     Inside Out: New Chinese Art, Asia Society, New York, NY, PS 1 Museum of Contemporary Art, Long Island City, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
In Your Face, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, USA

1997     Chinese Contemporary Art 1997, Watari Museum, Tokyo, Japan

1996     China Art Festival, Munich, Germany
Art Material of China, Avant Garde, Fukuoka, Tokyo, Japan

1995     Configura 2, Erfurt, Germany

1993     Graduate Show, Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, China