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Zhang Huan    (Chinese, 1965)

  Zhang Huan - Foam (Two Girls) (Photographs) h: 39.2 x w: 26.5 in / h: 99.6 x w: 67.3 cm
Zhang Huan
Foam (Two Girls) 1998
 
  

Biography
1965 Born in An Yang City, He Nan Province, China
1988 BA, He Nan University, Kai Feng, China
1993 MA, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
Lives and Works in Shanghai and New York

Exhibitions
2008 Zhang Huan: Blessings, Pace Wildenstein Gallery, New York (solo)
2008 Zhang Huan: Blessing, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China (solo)
2008 Zhang Huan: Altered States, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (solo)
2008 Body Language: Chinese Photography, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
2008 Half-Life of a Dream: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Collection of Kent and Vicki Logan, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
2008 Person of the Crowd, Neuberger Museum of Art, New York, USA
2007 Exposed: Defining Moments in Photograph from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
2007 ZHUYI! CHINA. Contemporary Photography from China, Artium of Alava, Center Museum of Contemporary Art, Spain
2007 Altered States, Asia Society, New York, USA (solo)
2007 Haunch of Venison, London, England (solo)
2007 PhotoEspana 2007, Madrid, Spain (solo)
2007 Drawings, Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin, Germany (solo)
2006 Shoot the Family, Cranbrook Art Museum, Michigan, USA
2006 Making a Scene, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel
2006 Zhang Huan, Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin, Germany (solo)
2006 Zhang Huan, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, Australia (solo)
2005 The Museum Collections, New Presentation of Art Works from 1960 to the Present Day, Center Pompidou, Paris, France
2005 Mahjong, Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Swizerland
2005 Locus Loppem 2005, Kunsthalle Lophem, Lophem, Belgium
2005 Between Skin and Orgasm--The Alchemistic Body, Kunsthalle Lophem, Center for Contemporary Art, Lophem, Belgium
2005 Monuments for the USA, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA
2005 The Great Beyond, Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun, Swizerland
2005 Text Me: An Exploration of Body Language, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, Australia
2005 On the Edge: Contemporary Chinese Artists Encounter the West, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, California, USA
2005 Person of the Crowd, Contemporary Museum, Maryland, USA
2005 Future Face, National Museum of Natural Science, Taiwan
2005 The Wall, Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art, The China Millennium Monument Art Gallery, Beijing, China
2005 The Pictures of Dorian Gray, Galeria de Arte Mexicano, Mexico City, Mexico
2005 Fusion: Aspects of Asian Culture in the MUSAC Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Leon, Spain
2005 Zhang Huan: Seeds of Hamburg, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA (solo)
2004 Zhang Huan: Seeds of Hamburg, Norton Museum of Art, Florida, USA (solo)
2004 Zhang Huan, La Fabrica Galeria, Madrid, Spain (solo)
2004 Zhang Huan, Tri Postal, Lille 2004, Cultural Capital of Europe, Lille, France (solo)
2004 Witness, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
2004 Regeneration, Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US, Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Pennsylvania, USA
2004 Face/off, The Association of Arts and Crafts Pforzheim, Pforzheim, Germany
2004 Dialogue with Pop, The Tank, Spaceworks Gallery, New York, USA
2004 The Art Project Goetzen, Houses of an Idol, Frankfurt (Oder)/Slubice, Germany/Poland
2004 The Amazing and the Immutable, University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Florida, USA
2004 Supernova: Art of the 1990s from the Logan Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
2004 Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, International Center of Photography, New York, and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
2004 Me, Myself & I, University Galleries, Florida Atlantic University, Florida, USA
2004 Supernova: Art of the 1990s from the Logan Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
2004 Queens International 2004, Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA
2004 Camera/Action: Performance and Photography, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, USA
2004 Constructed Identities, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, USA
2004 Anthro/Socio, The: Artist: Network, New York, USA
2003 Me and More, Museum of Art Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
2003 Come Rally, Basque Museum of Contemporary Art (Artium), Vitoria, Spain
2003 Skin Deep, The Trento and Rovereto Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rovereto, Italy
2003 Performance and Almost Performance, Reina Sofia National Museum, Madrid, Spain
2003 BQE, White Box, New York, USA
2003 Blood Lines & Connections, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, USA
2003 Full Frontal: Contemporary Asian Artists from the Logan Collection, Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA
2003 Spiders and Flies, Newcontemporaries, Sydney, Australia
2003 New Zone, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsow, Poland
2003 Somewhere Better Than This Place, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, USA
2003 2003 Beaufort, Triennial for Contemporary Art by the Sea, The PMMK, the Museum of Modern Art, Ostend, Belgium
2003 Art Project, DiverseWorks Artspace, Houston, USA
2003 Temporal Mood, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, USA
2003 Rituals, Academy of Arts, Berlin, Germany
2003 Family Ties, Peabody Essex Museum, Massachusetts, USA
2003 Body Politics, Elga Wimmer Gallery, New York, USA
2003 Windstil, Cotthem Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2003 Banquet, Metabolism and Communication, ZKM, Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
2003 Photo Espana 2003, International Photography Festival, Madrid, Spain
2003 Phantom of Desire: Visions of Masochism in Art, Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria
2003 Zhang Huan, Bochum Museum, Bochum, Germany (solo)
2003 Zhang Huan, Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin, Germany (solo)
2003 Zhang Huan, Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, Danmark (solo)
2002 Zhang Huan, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany (solo)
2002 2002 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum, New York, USA
2002 Skin Talks, Musee de la Civilisation, Quebec, Canada
2002 Attachment+, Kunsthalle Lophem, Center for Contemporary Art, Belgium
2002 China Contemporary Art Exhibition--Red Continent, Gwangju Art Museum, Korea
2002 Paisajes del Cuerpo, Sala Zapateria 40, Pamplona, Spain
2002 La Mirada Ajena, Basque Museum of Contemporary Art(Artium), Vitoria, Spain
2002 SAM Collects, Contemporary Art Projects, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA
2002 The Gift, Generous Offerings, Threatening Hospitality, The Bronx Museum of Art, New York, USA
2002 Subjectivity: Photographs of Themselves, Arizona State University Art Museum, Arizona, USA
2001 The Gift, Center of Contemporary Art, Siena, Italy
2001 Subject Plural: Crowds in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Museum, Texas, USA
2001 Metamorphosis and Cloning, Museum of Contemporary Art in Montreal, Canada
2001 Naked, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, USA
2001 Lateral Thinking, Art of the 1990s, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, USA
2001 Yokohama 2001: International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Pacific Yokohama, Japan
2001 Translated Acts, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany, and Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA
2001 Zhang Huan, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
2001 Zhang Huan, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada (solo)
2001 Zhang Huan, Museo das Peregrinacions, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (solo)
2001 Zhang Huan: Famliy Tree, Galerie Albert Benamou, Paris, France (solo)
2000 My America, Deitch Projects, New York, USA (solo)
2000 Zhang Huan Survey, Adam Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand (solo)
2000 Zhang Huan, Cotthem Gallery, Belgium (solo)
2000 Zhang Huan, Cotthem Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (solo)
2000 Art and Religion, Parkabdij Heverlee, Belgium (Organized by Museum S.M.A.K., Gent, Belgium)
2000 On the Edge of the Western World, Yerba Buena Center of the Arts,San Francisco, USA
2000 Emotional Rescue: The Contemporary Art Project Collection, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, USA
2000 Utopia, Rogaland Kunstmuseum, Stavanger, Norway
2000 Betreff, Expo 2000, Themenpark, Basic Needs, Hannover, Germany
2000 Waterfront--Cultural Bridge 2000, Helsingborg Museum, Sweden and Danmark
2000 Sharing Exoticisms, 5th Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France
2000 The Standard Projection: 24/7, The Standard Hotel, Los Angeles, USA
2000 Video via Venice, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA
2000 Socialisms, Special Exhibition / Stockholm Art Fair, Sweden
2000 6 Signals: Video by Contemporary Artists, Cheekwood, Nashville, USA
2000 Potent /Present: Selections from the Vicki and Kent Logan Collection, CCAC Institute, Oakland, USA
2000 Recent Acquisitions, The Doron Sebbag Art Collection, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Isael
1999 Contemporary Collectors, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, USA
1999 Transience: Chinese Art at the End of the Twentieth Century, The Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, USA
1999 In Your Face, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, USA
1999 Self-Portrait, Mercer Union, Centre for Contemporaty Art, Toronto, Canada
1999 Five Continents and a City: Second International Salon of Painting, Museum of Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico
1999 Best of the Season, Aldrich Museum of Contemporaty Art, Rigefield, USA
1999 Stories, A/C Projects, New York, USA
1999 Summit, Galerie 5020, Salzburg, Austria
1999 Art-Worlds in Dialogue, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
1999 Risk Cinema, Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
1999 Zhang Huan: A Video Survey 1994-1998; Performance Art from China, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
1999 48th La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
1999 The Kent and Vicki Logan Collection, San Francisco, USA
1999 The Century of the Body: Photoworks 1900-2000, Culturgest, Lisbon, and Musee de LElysee, lausanne, France
1999 Last Paradise, Presenca Galeria, Portugal
1999 Zhang Huan, Works From 1994-1998, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
1999 Zhang Huan: Performance on Video, Artspace, Sydney, Australia (solo)
1999 Zhang Huan: Performance, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand (solo)
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
1998 In Your Face, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, USA
1998 City, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
1997 China Art Festival, Munich, Germany
1996 Chinese Contemporary Art 1997, Watari Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1996 Art Material of China, Avant Garde, Fugang, Tokyo, Japan
1995 Configura 2, Erfurt, Germany
1993 Graduate Show, Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, China
1988 Zhang Huan, He Nan University, Kai Feng, China (solo)

Literature
2007 China Art Book. Uta Grosenick / Caspar Schübbe (Ed.), 680 pages, approx. 850 images, trilingual: Engl./Ger./Chin., Dumont Buchverlag, Cologne 2007. www.chinaartbook.de
2006 “Shooting the Family,” Independent Curators International (cat.), Ralph Rugoff
2005 “Art Today,”, Brandon Taylor
2005 “Losing Himself in His Art”, Theme, Spring 2005, Premier Issue, Kim, Jiae
2004 “Zhang Huan, Weihong and Zhang Jian-Jun at DiverseWorks and Barbara Davis”, Art in America, No. 2, Richard Vine
2004 Chinese Photography: Beyond Stereotypes”, ARTnews, Vol. 103, No. 2, Barbara Pollack
2004 “Zhang Huan - Performances”, TAASA Reviews, Vol. 13, No. 1, Alicia Ritson
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