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Born An Yang City, He Nan Province, China
Lives and Works in Shanghai
Education
1993
MA, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
1988
BA, He Nan University, Kai Feng, China
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2008
Zhang Huan: Altered States, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2007
Zhang Huan: Altered States, Asia Society, New York, USA
2006
Zhang Huan, Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin, Germany
Zhang Huan, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, Australia
2005
Zhang Huan: Seeds of Hamburg. Norton Museum of Fine Arts, West Palm Beach, Florida.
2004
Zhang Huan. La Fabrica Galeria, Madrid, Spain.
Zhang Huan. Tri Postal, Lille 2004, Cultural Capital of Europe, France.
2003
Zhang Huan. Bochum Museum, Bochum, Germany.
Zhang Huan. Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin, Germany.
Zhang Huan. Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Denmark.
2002
Zhang Huan. Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
2001
Zhang Huan. Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York.
Zhang Huan. The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
Zhang Huan. Museo das Peregrinacions, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Zhang Huan: Family Tree. Galerie Albert Benamou, Paris, France.
2000
My America. Deitch Projects, New York.
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.
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 Exhibitions
2008
Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Kuntsmuseum, Bern, Switzerland
2007
Arte Fiera, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Bologna (Italy)
Exposed: Defining Moments in Photograph MCA Coll., Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
(USA)
Zhuyi! China. Contemporary Photography from China, Artium of Alava, Alava (Spain)
2006
Shooting 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
2005
The Museum Collections: New Presentation of Art Works from 1960 to the Present Day. Center Pompidou, Paris, France.
The Wall: Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art, The Albright Knox Art Gallery, University of Buffalo Art Galleries, and the Millennium Art Museum, Beijing, China
Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection. Kunstmuseum. 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, CA.
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, CA.
Person of the Crowd. Contemporary Museum, Maryland.
2004
Witness. Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia.
Regeneration: Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US. Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, PA.
Face/off. The Association of Arts and Crafts Pforzheim, Germany.
Neither Here Nor There: Video Artists Navigate Cultural Displacement. Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN.
Dialogue with Pop: The Tank. Spaceworks Gallery, New York.
Supernova: Art of the 1990s from the Logan Collection. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA.
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, FL.
Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China. International Center of Photography, New York, David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Seattle Art Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, and Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Me, Myself & I. University Galleries, Florida Atlantic University, FL.
Queens International 2004. Queens Museum of Art, New York.
Camera/Action: Performance and Photography. The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, IL.
Constructed Identities. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS.
Anthro/Socio. The: Artist: Network, New York.
2003
Somewhere Better Than This Place. The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH.
Beaufort: Triennial for Contemporary Art by the Sea. The PMMK: the Museum of Modern Art, Ostend, Belgium.
Art Project. DiverseWorks Artspace, Houston, TX.
Temporal Mood. Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX.
Rituals. Academy of Arts, Berlin, Germany.
Family Ties. Peabody Essex Museum, Massachusetts.
Body Politics. Elga Wimmer Gallery, New York.
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.
Blood Lines & Connections. Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO.
Full Frontal: Contemporary Asian Artists from the Logan Collection. Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO.
Spiders and Flies. Newcontemporaries, Sydney, Australia.
New Zone. Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsow, Poland.
2002
Whitney Biennial. Whitney Museum, New York.
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, WA.
The Gift: Generous Offerings, Threatening Hospitality. The Bronx Museum of Art, New York.
Subjectivity: Photographs of Themselves. Arizona State University Art Museum, Arizona.
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.
The Gift. Center of Contemporary Art, Siena, Italy.
Subject Plural: Crowds in Contemporary Art. Contemporary Arts Museum, Texas.
Metamorphosis and Cloning. Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada.
Naked. Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, PA.
Lateral Thinking: Art of the 1990s. Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA.
2000
Art and Religion: Parkabdij Heverlee. Organized by Museum S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium.
Exhibiting Experimental Art in China, The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago.
On the Edge of the Western World. Yerba Buena Center of the Arts, San Francisco, CA.
Emotional Rescue: The Contemporary Art Project Collection. Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA.
Utopia. Rogaland Kunstmuseum, Stavanger, Norway.
Betreff. Expo 2000, Themenpark, Basic Needs, Hannover, Germany.
Waterfront: Cultural Bridge 2000. Helsingborg Museum, Sweden & Denmark.
Sharing Exoticisms. 5th Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France.
The Standard Projection: 24/7. The Standard Hotel, Los Angeles, CA.
Video via Venice. Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA.
Socialisms. Special Exhibition / Stockholm Art Fair, Sweden.
6 Signals: Video by Contemporary Artists. Cheekwood, Nashville, TN.
Potent/Present: Selections from the Vicki and Kent Logan Collection. CCAC Institute, Oakland,CA.
Recent Acquisitions: The Doron Sebbag Art Collection. Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel.
1999
The Century of the Body: Photoworks 1900-2000. Culturgest, Lisbon, and Musee de L'Elysee, 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.
Best of the Season. Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT.
Stories. A/C Projects, New York, NY.
Summit. Galerie 5020, Salzburg, Austria.
Art-Worlds in Dialogue. Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany.
Risk Cinema. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.
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, CA.
Contemporary Collectors. Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA.
Transience: Chinese Art at the End of the Twentieth Century. The Smart Museum of Art,
Chicago, IL.
In Your Face. New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA.
1998
Inside Out: New Chinese Art. Asia Society, New York, NY; PS 1 Museum of Contemporary Art, Long Island City, NY; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA.
In Your Face. The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA.
1997
Chinese Contemporary Art 1997. Watari Museum, Tokyo, Japan.
1996
China Art Festival. Munich, Germany.
Art Material of China. Avant Garde, Fugang, Tokyo, Japan.
1995
Configura 2. Erfurt, Germany.
1993
Graduate Show. Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, China.