Download PDF (0.9 MB)ZHANG HUAN
Present
Lives and Works in Shanghai, China and New York, NY
1993
MA, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
1988
BA, He Nan University, Kai Feng, China
1965
Born An Yang City, He Nan Province, China
SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010
Zhang Huan: Dawn of Time. Shanghai Art Museum, China
Zhang Huan: Amituofo. Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taiwan
Zhang Huan: Ashman. Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
Zhang Huan: Free Tiger Returns to Mountains. Pace Beijing, Beijing, China
Zhang Huan: Hope Tunnel. Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2009
Semele. Opera director and set designer, Theatre Royal de la Monnaie, de Munt, Brussels, Belgium
Zhang Huan, Zhu Gangqiang. White Cube, London, England
Zhang Huan: Memory Doors. Huanch of Venison, Zurich, Switzerland
Zhang Huan: Rebirth. ProjectB Contemporary Art, Milan, Italy
2008
Zhang Huan: Blessings. Pace Wildenstein, New York, NY
Zhang Huan: Altered States. Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Zhang Huan, Paintings and Sculptures. Diehl + Gallery One, Moscow, Russia
2007
Zhang Huan: Altered States. Asia Society, New York, NY
Zhang Huan: Ash. Haunch of Venison, London, England
Zhang Huan: Berlin Buddha. Haunch of Venison, Berlin, Germany
Zhang Huan. PhotoEspana 2007 Festival, 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. Norton Museum of Fine Arts, West Palm Beach, FL
2004
Zhang Huan. La Fabrica Galleria, 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, NY
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, NY
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, NY
Zhang Huan: Performance on Video. Artspace, Sydney, Australia
Zhang Huan: Performance. Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand
1988
Zhang Huan. He Nan University, Kai Feng, China
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010
Hope! The City of Dinard, Dinard, France
Art for the World. Sculpture Project of the Expo Boulevard, World Expo 2010, Shanghai, China
Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
2009
The China Project. Queensland Art Gallery, Australia
Action--Camera: Beijing Performance Photography. Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
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. Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, USA
Person of the Crowd. Neuberger Museum of Art, Westchester, NY
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
Arte Fiera, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Bologna, Italy
Exposed: Defining Moments in Photography. Museum of
Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Zhuyi! China. Contemporary Photography from China. Artium of Alava, Alava, Spain
2006
Shooting the Family. Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Making a Scene. Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel
Reverence. Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill New York
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, Buffalo, New York, USA; 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, Baltimore, MD
2004
Witness. Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Regeneration: Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US. Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
Face/off. The Association of Arts and Crafts Pforzheim, 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, NY
Supernova: Art of the 1990s from the Logan Collection. 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, Tampa, FL
Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China. International Center of Photography, New York, New York; David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, IL; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany; and Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Me, Myself & I. University Galleries, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
Queens International 2004. Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY
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, NY
2003
Somewhere Better Than This Place. The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
2003 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, MA
Body Politics. Elga Wimmer Gallery, New York, NY
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, NY
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, Warsaw, Poland
2002
2002 Whitney Biennial. Whitney Museum, New York, NY
Skin Talks. Musee de la Civilisation, Quebec, Canada
Attachment+. Kunsthalle Lophem, Center for Contemporary Art, Antwerp, 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, Bronx, NY
Subjectivity: Photographs of Themselves. Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
2001
Yokohama 2001: International Triennale of Contemporary Art. Yokohama, Japan
Translated Acts: Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Berlin, Germany; and Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY
The Gift. Center of Contemporary Art, Siena, Italy
Subject Plural: Crowds in Contemporary Art. Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
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, Chicago, IL
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, Hanover, Germany
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, Stockholm, 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, Tel Aviv, Israel
1999
The Century of the Body: Photoworks 1900-2000. Culturgest, Lisbon, and Musee de L'Elysee, Lausanne, France
Last Paradise. Presenca Galeria, Lisbon, 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 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 Venice Biennial. 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, New York; 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
SELECT MUSEUM AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Asia Museum of Fukuoka, Fukuoka City, Japan
Center of Contemporary Art, Malaga, Spain
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Charles Saatchi Collection, London, England
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Emily Fisher Landau Collection, Long Island City, NY
Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka City, Japan
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
Inhotim Contemporary Art Center, Inhotim, Brazil
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Chicago, IL
Kent and Vicki Logan Collection, San Francisco, CA
Louis Vuitton Foundation for Creation, Paris, France
Marieluise Hessel Foundation Collection at Annendale-on-Hudson, NY
Museum of Art Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
Museum of Casa Anadia, Anadia, Portugal
Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, Spain
Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Leon, Spain
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Philip Morris Co. New York, NY
Pompidou Center, Paris, France
Progressive Collection, Mayfield Village, OH
Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
REFCO INC., Chicago, IL
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, IL
S.M.A.K., Gent, Belgium
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS
University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA
University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Yale University, New Haven, CT
SELECT LITERATURE
The China Project. Australia: Queensland Art Gallery, 2009.
Action--Camera: Beijing Performance Photography. Canada: University of British Columbia, 2009.
Kent, Rachel. Witness. Sydney: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2004.
Chiu, Melissa. "Altered Art: Zhang Huan." In Zhang Huan: Altered States. New York: Charta in collaboration with the Asia Society, 2007.
Dziewior, Yilmaz.
"Seeds of Hamburg." In Zhang Huan. Kunstverein in Hamburg, edited by Yilmaz Dziewior, 15-21. Germany: Hatje Cantz, 2003.
Gisbourne, Mark. "Zhang Huan: Palimpsest "Writing on the Body." In Zhang Huan, edited and published by Gallery Volker Diehl. Germany: Gallery Volker Diehl, 2006.
Kong Bu. "Zhang Huan in Beijing." In Zhang Huan: Altered States. New York: Charta in collaboration with the Asia Society, 2007.
Perra, Daniele. "Zhang Huan, A Sense of the Possible."
In The Season. Edited and published by the Galleru Pack. Italy: Gallery Pack, 2006.
Yu Yeon Kim. "Intensified Corporeality." In
Zhang Huan, Kunstverein in Hamburg, edited by Yilmaz Dziewior, 26-29, Germany: Hatje Cantz, 2003.
Wu Hung. "Speaking the Unspeakable." In Transcience, Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century, edited by Wu Hung, 102-108. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1999.
SELECT PRESS
2010
Qin, Zhongwei. "Artist Puts Body and Souls into Work." China Daily, June 7, 2010.
Wang, Yueyang. "Spotlight on Zhang Huan," Xinmin Weekly, Issue 23, June 2010.
Colard, Jean-Max. "Maximum Exposure." Les Inrockuptibles. No. 753, May 2010.
Liu, Xiuyi. "Zhang Huan: Dawn of Time." Leap, Issue 127, April, 2010.
Lu, Carol Yinghua. "How It Appears." Frieze, Issue 129, March, 2010.
Benjamin, Genocchio. "Paradise Regained." Life Magazine, Issue 52 (Cover Image), March, 2010.
Bartlett, Voon Pow. "Zhang Huan: Zhu Gangqiang." Yishu, Vol. 9, January/February, 2010.
Xu, Ke. & Bai, Jiafeng. "From the Individual Metaphor to Collective Memory-Zhang Huan and His ' Dawn of Time." Art China, Issue 61, February/March, 2010.
Zhang, Huan. "Zhang Huan: My Principle of the Art is 'Those Who Submit shall Perish, Those Who Resist will Prosper." Art World, Issue 238, January/February, 2010.
"Zhang Huan." Art Box, Vol. 8, 2010.
2009
Baecker, Angie. "Standing on the Shoulders of Giants." ArtAsiaPacific, November-December, 2009.
Chen, Aric. "Super Studios." Wallpaper, June, 2009.
Ferrari, Stefano. "Zhang Huan Ash Painting." Arte, June No. 430 , 2009.
Perra, Daniele. "Zhang Huan," Kult, May, No. 5, 2009.
Pasquarella, Sheri. "Zhang Huan Stopped by Chuck Close's New York Studio," Tar Art, Spring, 2009.
2008
Seddon, Max. "Sadness, Despair and Ash at Zhang Huan Show." The Moscow Times, City Wise, December 15, 2008.
Wullschlager, Jackie. "The Revolution Continues, New Art from China." Financial Times, Collecting, Saturday, October 11, 2008.
Griffin, Kevin. "Zhang Huan Pushes His Body to Extremes for Art." The Vancouver Sun, Arts & Life, August 16, 2008.
Nedo, Kito. "Artmonk in Capitalism." Art Magazine, August, 2008.
Reyna, Juan Carlos. "Zhang Huan." Picnic, August, 2008.
Lederman, Marsha. "The New Face of Chinese Art." Globe Review, Visual Art, July 2, 2008.
Naves, Mario. "That's a Nice Piece of Ash." The New York Observer, Arts & Culture, June 10, 2008.
Smith, Roberta. "Zhang Huan." The New York Times, Art in Review, May 23, 2008.
"Zhang Huan." Status, May, 2008.
"Zhang Huan." Beaux Arts, May, 2008.
"Zhang Huan." Sleek, Spring, 2008.
Franzen, Jonathan. "The Way of the Puffin," The New Yorker, April. 21, 2008.
Osborne, Lawrence. Zhang's Dynasty. Men's Vogue, April, 2008.
Pollack, Barbara. "From a Bed of Ice to a 20-Foot Hand," Artnews, April. Vol. 107, No. 4
2008.
"Zhang Huan: Recklessness and Wisdom." Art World, No. 215, February, 2008.
Castro, Jan Garden. "New Vocabularies, A Conversation with Zhang Huan." Sculpture, Jan/Feb, Vol. 27, No.1. 2008.
Richard, Frances. "Zhang Huan, Asia Society." Artforum, January, No. 5, 2008.
2007
"Zhang Huan." Art + Auction, December, 2007.
Barboza, David. "Provacateur's Products Roll Off the Assembly Line." The New York Times, September 3, 2007.
"Culture Watch." Departures Magazine, May – June, 2007.
Heartney, Eleanor. "Zhang Huan: Becoming the Body." In Zhang Huan: Altered States. New York: Charta in collaboration with the Asia Society, 2007.
2006
Vogel, Carol. "The New Contemporary-Art Frontier." The New York Times, April 1, 2006.
Tancock, John. "Zhang Huan." In Sotheby's Contemporary Art Asia. New York: Sotheby's, 2006.
2005
Jiae, Kim. "Losing Himself in his Art." Theme, Spring, 2005.
2004
Jinman, Richard. "Hey, that naked body rings a bell." Sydney Morning Herald, March 13, 2004.
Collins, Thom. "Zhang Huan." Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2004.
Yu, Christina. "Tangible Metaphors." In Next Level, Edition 01, Vol. 03, 2004.
2003
Sand, Olivia. "Zhang Huan." Asian Art Newspaper, January, 2003.
2002
Goldberg, Roselee. "Zhang Huan at Luhring Augustine." ArtForum, March, 2002.
2001
Olesen, Alexa. "Making Art of Masochism and Tests of Endurance." The New York Times, November, 2001.
Borysevicz, Mathieu. "Zhang Huan, Before and After." Art Asia Pacific, Issue 30, 2001.
2000
Deitch, Jeffrey.
My America. New York: Deitch Projects, 2000.