ZHANG  HUAN

ZHANG HUAN

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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.

Nato nel 1965 ad An Yang City, Provincia di He Nan, Cina
Vive e lavora a Shanghai e New York

STUDI

1993     
MA, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China 

1988    
BA, He Nan University, Kai Feng, China 


PERSONALI (selezione)

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 

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 
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


COLLETTIVE (selezione)

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