Zhang Xiaogang     张晓刚

Born in Kunming, Yunnan Province, China in 1958
Graduated from the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, Sichuan, China
Works and lives in Beijing and Chengdu, China
 

2008

Facing Reality,National Art Museum of China, Modern Kunst Stiftung, Ludwing Wien

2007
“Zhang Xiaogang”, Sara Hilden Art Museum, Tampere, Finland (Solo)
“From Southeast”, Guangdong Museum of Fine Art, Guangzhou, China
“Black White Grey: A Conscious Cultural Stance”, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
Guiyang Biennial, Guiyang, China
“China: Facing Reality”, Museum Modern Kunst Stiftung Ludwing Wien, Vienna, Austria
“Society Art”, the State Tretyakor Gallery, Moscow, Russia
“From New Figurative Image to New Painting”, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

2006
“Home: Zhang Xiaogang”, Beijing Commune, Beijing, China  (Solo)
“Zhang Xiaogang Exhibition”, the Art Centre of Tokyo, Japan (Solo)
“Amnesia and memory”, Artside Gallery, Seoul, Korea (Solo)

“Reinventing Books in Chinese Contemporary Art”, China Institute Gallery, New York, USA
“Dark Side Society”, New York, USA
“The Blossoming of Realism: The Oil Painting of Mainland China since 1978”, National Art Museum of China, Beijing; Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan, China
“Plato and His Seven Spirits”, OCT Contemporary Art Center, Shenzhen, China
“China Now”, Sammlung Essl Museum, Vienna, Austria
“Food and Desire”, South Silk Restaurant, Beijing, China

2005
“Zhang Xiaogang 2005”, Max Protech, New York, USA (Solo)

“Take Off: An Exhibition of the Contemporary Art Collection”, He Xiangning Art Museum and Contemporary Art Terminal, China
“Always to the Front: China Contemporary Art”, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan, China
“Plato with Seven Lik Eidolons”, Contemporary Art Exhibition, OCAT Contemporary Art Center, Beijing, China
“Allegory”, Hangzhou, China
“Contemporary View Exhibition for Collector”, China First Contemporary Art Almanac Exhibition, China Century Museum, Beijing, China
“Luck Sky: 2005 China Contemporary Oil Painting Invite Exhibition”, Shenzhen Museum, Shenzhen, China
The Second Triennial of Chinese Arts, Guangzhou Museum, China
“Big River: New Period China Oil Painting Retrospection Exhibition”, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China

2004
“Umbilical Cord of History Paintings by Zhang Xiaogang”, Hong Kong Art Center, Hong Kong (Solo)

“China Now”, Tang Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
“Beyond Boundaries”, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China
Shanghai Biennial, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
“Face to Face”, Li Art Gallery, Taiwan, China
“China, the Body Everywhere?”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Marseilles, Marseilles, France
First Wuhan Fine Arts Literature Nomination Exhibition, Art Gallery of Hubei Fine Art Academy, Wuhan, China
“Three Worlds”, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Three on the Bund, Shanghai, China

2003
“Amnesia and memory”, Gallery of France, Paris, France (Solo)

“From China with Art”, Indonesian National Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
“China 3 Face 3 Colors”, Artside Gallery, Korea
“Open Sky: Contemporary Art Exhibition”, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art,?? Shanghai, China
“The East Daybreak: Chinese Painting One Hundred Years”, Africa Museum, Paris, France

2002
“14 Chinese artists / Made by Chinese”, Enrico Navarra Gallery, Paris, France
“BABEL 2002”, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
“Review ’77, 78’ Today’s Words”, Art Museum of Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, Sichuan, China
“A Point in time·Changsha”, MeiLun Museum, Changsha, China
“Longmarch”, Upriver Loft, Kunming, China
“Paris·Beijing”, Espace Cardin, Paris, France
“The Concept of Image”, Shenzhen Art Museum, Guangdong, China
The First Triennial of Chinese Arts, Guangzhou Museum, China
Triennial of Guangzhou, Guangdong Art Museum, China
“Image is Power”, He Xiangning Art Museum, Guangdong, China
“In Memory: The Art of After War”, Sidney Mishkin Gallery, New York, USA
“East + West Contemporary Art of China”, Artist-house Vienna, Austria

2001
“Is Me, Is Us”, France Gallery, Paris, France
The Chengdu Bienal, Chengdu Contemporary Art Museum, China
“Towards a New Image: Twenty years of Contemporary Chinese Painting”, National Art “Hot Pot”, Artist Center of Oslo, Norway
The III Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Museum of China, Beijing; Shanghai Art museum, Shanghai; Sichuan Art Museum, Sichuan; Guangdong Art Museum, Guangdong, China
“Academic and Unacademic”, Yibo Gallery of Shanghai, China
“Dream: 2001 Contemporary Chinese Exhibition”, Red Mansion Gallery, London, UK

2000

“Zhang Xiaogang 2000”, Gallery of Max Potetch, New York, USA (Solo)
“At the New Century”, Chengdu Contemporary Art Museum, China
“Man + Space”, Kwangju Biennale 2000, Kwangju, Korea
“Messengers of the Hearth”, Center of Contemporary Art of the Lycee Xavier Bernard in Rouille, France
“Transcending Boundaries”, Montclair State University, USA
“Portraits of Contemporary China”, Espace Culture Francois Mitterand, Perigueux, France
“Contemporary Art of China”, Picardie Museum, Amiens, France
The First Collection Exhibition of China Contemporary Art, Shanghai Art Museum, China
“Hundred Years of Chinese Oil Painting”, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
Asia Contemporary Art Exhibition, Japan

1999
“Les Camarades”, Gallery of France, Paris, France (Solo)

“1999 Art China”, LIMN Gallery, San Francisco, USA
“Faces”, Masion de la Culture de la Province de Namur (with George Baselitz, David Hockney, Camille de Taeye and Ruth Franken), Belgium
The First Collection Exhibition, Dongyu Museum of Fine Arts, Shenyang, China
“Inside Out: New Chinese Art”, Asia Society and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, USA; Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrrey, Mexico
“New Modernism for a New Millennium: Works by Contemporary Asia”, artists from the Logan Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern, Art and LIMN Gallery, San Francisco, USA

1998
“China New Art”, Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland

“Bloodline: The Big Family 1998”, Hanart Taipei Gallery, Taipei, China (Solo)
“Magritte and Contemporary Art”, Dostende Contemporary Art Museum, Belgium
International Contemporary Art Collection Exhibition, Amsterdam and Brussels
The First Collection Exhibition of Upriver Gallery, Chengdu, China
International Contemporary Art Fair, Brussels, Belgium

1997

“Bloodline: The Big Family 1997”, Gallery of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China (Solo)
“The Face and Bodies from Middle Kingdom”, Prague Art Museum, Prague, the Czech Republic
“Quotation Marks”, Inese Contemporary Paintings, Modern Art Museum, Singapore
“100 years of Chinese Portraiture Art”, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
“Red and Grey: Eight Avant-garde Chinese Artsts”, Soobin Art Gallery, Singapore
“China Neo Art”, Lisbon Museum of Art, Portugal
“8 + 8 - 1”, Schoeni Gallery, Hong Kong, China
International Art Exposition, Chicago
International Art Exposition, Berlin, Germany

1996
“China!”, Zeitgenossische Malerei, Kunst Museum, Bonn, Germany; Kuenstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
“Reckoning with the Past: Contemporary Chinese Paintings”, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, England
The 2nd Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Museum, Australia
“4 Points de Rencotre”, China; Galerie de France, Paris, France
“Reality: Present and Future”, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
The First Academic Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art, National Art Museum of China, Beijing and Hong Kong Arts Center, Hong Kong, China

1995
The 46th Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
“Des del Pais del cemter: Aantguarde Artisiques Xineses”, Santa Monica Art Center, Barcelona, Spain
“China New Arts”, Vanconver Art Museum, Vancouver, Canada
Contemporary Chinese Art Exhibition, In the Absence of Ideology, Kampnagel Halle-K3, Hamburg, Germany

1994
Chinese Contemporary Art at San Paulo, the 22nd International Biennial of San Paulo, Brazil

1993
“China's New Art Post 1989”, Hong Kong Art Center, Hong Kong; Museum of Contemporary Art , Sydney, Australia; Marlborough Fine Art, London, England
“Mao Goes Pop”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
China's Experience Exhibition, Sichuan Art Gallery, Chengdu, China

1992
The Guangzhou Biannual: Oil Paintings from the 90s, Guangzhou, China
Documents of China Contemporary Art Show, traveling exhibition in Beijing, Guangzhou, Chongqing, Shenyang, Shanghai, Nanjing, China

1991
“Don't Want to Play Cards with Cezanne, and Other Works: Selections from the Chinese ‘New Wave’ and ‘Avant-gardes’ Art of the Eighties”, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, California, USA

1989

“Lost in the Dreams”, Gallery of the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, Chongqing, China (Solo)
“China Avant-garde”, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China

1988
“Art from Southeast of China”, Chengdu, China

1987
“Modern Art of China”, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China

1985
“Neo-Realism”, Shanghai; Nanjing, China