Zhang Huan was born in An Yang City, He Nan Province, China, in 1965.
He achieved his BA at He Nan University in 1988 and a MA at the Central Academy of Fine Arts of Beijing in 1993.
Since his graduation he participated in numerous exhibitions worldwide. The most important are: Zhang Huan, Museo das Peregrinacions, Santiago de Compostela, Spain in 2001; Zhang Huan, Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, Danmark and in Bochum Museum, Bochum, Germany in 2003; Zhang Huan: Seeds of Hamburg, Norton Museum of Art, Florida, USA in 2004 and in Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA in 2005; Hope Tunnel, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China, Ashman, PAC Museum, Milan, Italy, Dawn of Time, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China and Amituofo, Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan in 2010; Q Confucius, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China in 2011.
Born in 1965 in 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
2012 Zhang Huan: Ash Paintings and Memory Doors, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada As Director and Set Designer, Semele, Opera, Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, Toronto, Canada Zhang Huan: The Mountain is Still a Mountain, White Cube, London, UK Zhang Huan: Jin Hui Dui, Gallery 100, Taipei, Taiwan
2011 Zhang Huan: Q Confucius, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China Zhang Huan: 49 Days, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, USA Zhang Huan: East Wind, West Wind, Espace Louis Vuittion Macao, Macao Zhang Huan: Aura of Disappearance, Edouard Malinque Gallery, in Cooperation with The Pace Gallery, Hong Kong Zhang Huan: Ash Banquet, ProjectB Gallery, Milan, Italy
2010 Zhang Huan: Dawn of Time, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China Zhang Huan: Amituofo, Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan Zhang Huan: Ashman, PAC Museum, Milan, Italy Zhang Huan: Free Tiger Returns to Mountains, Pace Beijing, Beijing, China Zhang Huan: Hope Tunnel, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China As Director and Set Designer, Semele, Opera, Poly Theatre, Beijing, China Zhang Huan: Out of the Ash, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2009 As Director and Set Designer, Semele, Opera, Theatre Royal de La Monnaie | de Munt, Brussels, Belgium Neither Coming Nor Going, PaceWildenstein, New York, USA Zhang Huan, Zhu Gangqiang, White Cube, London, UK Zhang Huan: Memory Doors, Haunch of Venison, Zurich, Switzerland Zhang Huan, Rebirth, ProjectB Contemporary Art, Milano, Italy
2008 Zhang Huan: Blessings, PaceWildenstein, New York, USA Zhang Huan: Altered States, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada Zhang Huan, Paintings and Sculptures, Diehl + Gallery One, Moscow, Russia Zhang Huan, Works from the Collection Caspar H. Schubbe, DSV Group, Stuttgart, Germany
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
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 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
2012 Superbodies, 2012 Hasselt, Hasselt, Belgium Swept Away: Dust, Ashes and Dirt in Contemporary Art and Design, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA Transforming Minds: Buddhism in Art, Asia Society Hong Kong Center, Hong Kong Face, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China Visible/Invisible, Italy Pavilion, Shanghai, China Sculpture at Pilane 2012, Tjorn, Sweden Art Festival Watou 2012, Watou, Belgium Omen2012-Chinese New Art, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2011 Skin, The Foundation of Claude Verdan, Museum of Science and Art, Lausanne, Switzerland About Identity, Art Stations Foundation by Grazyna Kulczyk, Poznan, Poland The World Belongs to You, Palazzo Grassi, Francois Pinault Foundation, Venice, Italy Living, The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark Glasstress 2011, Venice, Italy Big Brother, Artists Facing Tyrants, Palais des Arts, Dinard, France
2011 Haein Art Project, Haeinsa, Hapcheon, Korea Buddha's Trace-Contemporary Art from Asia, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bochum, Germany
2010 Hope! The city of Dinard, Dinard, France Art for The World, The Sculpture Project of The Expo Boulevard, World Expo 2010, Shanghai, China Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance, The Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA Arts and Cities, Aichi Triennale 2010, Aichi, Japan The Silk Road, From Saatchi Gallery, Tri Postal, Lille, France Photography from The New China, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA The Tiger in Asian Art, Asia House, London, UK Negotiations, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China The Naked Face: Self Portrait, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia Rehearsal, 2010 Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China
2009 The Buhl Collection: Speaking with Hands, Daelim Contemporary Art Museum, Seoul, Korea Action-Camera: Beijing Performance Photography, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Steel Life, La Triennale di Milano, Milano, Italy Yi Pai-Century Thinking, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China The Social Critique 1993-2005, Kalmar Konstmuseum, Kalmar, Sweden Re_View: 170 Years of Photography, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia Beg Borrow and Steal, The Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA 100 Years, A Draft of a History, PS1 Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA
2008 Body Language: Chinese Photography, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia a Dream: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Collection of Kent and Vicki Logan, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA Half-Life of 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 Position and Deposition: Franko B/Zhang Huan, Galleria Pack, Milano, Italy Origins, Hudson Valley Center, New York, USA Encounters, Pace Beijing, Beijing, China Christian Dior & Chinese Artists, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China Meat After Meat Joy, Daneyal Mahmood Gallery, New York, USA Meat After Meat Joy, Pierre Menard Gallery, Cambridge, USA
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 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
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