Residing between Shanghai and New York, Zhang Huan began his career in Beijing, as part of a post-Tiananmen creative movement known as Beijing East Village. In his work, the artist commonly uses his own body as subject, often placing himself in physically taxing situations. These challenges are conceptual and through them he explores the cultural tensions that he has experienced both in China and as an expatriate living in New York.

Photographs from Zhang Huan’s most recent series entitled My Boston, 2005, will be presented in this exhibition. In explaining this body of work, Zhang Huan has said, When I was young, my mother often told me you have to study hard so when you grow up you have a bright future. But I never liked to read books. I tried many different ways to keep myself awake I would bite my hands, stab my flesh with a pen. In My Boston, Zhang Huan, while naked, had himself buried with books in a public square outside the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.