Zhang Huan

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Zhang Huan (b.1965, An Yang City, He Nan Province, China)


Lives and Works in Shanghai and New York

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[edit] Biography

Zhang Huan was born in 1965 in rural China during the Cultural Revolution [1]. He studied European painting at the Nan University and later undertook post graduate study in painting at Beijing's Central Academy. While there, he moved to the city's East Village, where he was influenced by the community of experimental avant garde artists. He consequently abandoned painting and graduated from the Academy in 1993, despite having his final submission, an installation and performance on female infanticide, rejected.

Zhang Huan is a leading figure among second generation Chinese performance artists rising to prominence in the wake of political unrest culminating in the Tiananmen Square massacres. His work addresses trauma: the aftermath of shock, suffering and pain and is expressed both as a personal comment concerning his own and his family's histories and as a collective response, articulating, for example, China's emergence from the Cultural Revolution and oppression.

Zhang's performance work takes both solo and group forms. Much of the work performed alone involves some type of bodily mortification, referencing the practices of Buddhist asceticism and Christian sacrifice. Suffering is used as a means to transcendence. Here, when he is harnessed to a rafter while his blood and sweat mix on a hot plate or when he invites insects to crawl over him in a squalid public toilet, Zhang's performances confront the thresholds of pain and point to a way through.

reference and excerpt Adam Art Gallery, The Victoria University of Wellington Art Collection:[2]


[edit] Education

1988 BA, He Nan University, Kai Feng, China

1993 MA, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China

[edit] Exhibitions

[edit] Selected solo exhibitions

2006

  • Zhang Huan, Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin, Germany
  • Zhang Huan, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, Australia

2005

  • Zhang Huan: Seeds of Hamburg, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA

2004

  • Zhang Huan: Seeds of Hamburg, Norton Museum of Art, Florida, USA
  • Zhang Huan, La Fabrica Galeria, Madrid, Spain
  • Zhang Huan, Tri Postal, Lille 2004, Cultural Capital of Europe, Lille, France

2003

  • Zhang Huan, Bochum Museum, Bochum, Germany
  • Zhang Huan, Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin, Germany
  • Zhang Huan, Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, Danmark

2002

  • Zhang Huan, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

2001

  • Zhang Huan, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, USA
  • Zhang Huan, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada
  • Zhang Huan, Museo das Peregrinacions, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
  • Zhang Huan: Famliy Tree, Galerie Albert Benamou, Paris, France

2000

  • My America, Deitch Projects, New York, USA
  • 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, USA
  • Zhang Huan: Performance on Video, Artspace, Sydney, Australia
  • Zhang Huan: Performance, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand

1988

  • Zhang Huan, He Nan University, Kai Feng, China

[edit] Selected group exhibitions

2006

  • Shoot 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
  • Mahjong, Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Kunstmuseum Bern, 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, USA
  • 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, California, USA
  • Person of the Crowd, Contemporary Museum, Maryland, USA
  • Future Face, National Museum of Natural Science, Taiwan
  • The Wall, Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art, The China Millennium Monument Art Gallery, Beijing, China
  • The Pictures of Dorian Gray, Galeria de Arte Mexicano, Mexico City, Mexico
  • Fusion: Aspects of Asian Culture in the MUSAC Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Leon, Spain

2004

  • Witness, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
  • Regeneration, Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US, Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Pennsylvania, USA
  • Face/off, The Association of Arts and Crafts Pforzheim, Pforzheim, Germany
  • Dialogue with Pop, The Tank, Spaceworks Gallery, New York, USA
  • 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, Florida, USA
  • Supernova: Art of the 1990s from the Logan Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
  • Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, International Center of Photography, New York, and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
  • Me, Myself & I, University Galleries, Florida Atlantic University, Florida, USA
  • Supernova: Art of the 1990s from the Logan Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
  • Queens International 2004, Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA
  • Camera/Action: Performance and Photography, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, USA
  • vConstructed Identities, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, USA
  • Anthro/Socio, The: Artist: Network, New York, USA

2003

  • Somewhere Better Than This Place, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, USA
  • Beaufort 2003, Triennial for Contemporary Art by the Sea, The PMMK, the Museum of Modern Art, Ostend, Belgium
  • Art Project, DiverseWorks Artspace, Houston, USA
  • Temporal Mood, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, USA
  • Rituals, Academy of Arts, Berlin, Germany
  • Family Ties, Peabody Essex Museum, Massachusetts, USA
  • Body Politics, Elga Wimmer Gallery, New York, USA
  • 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, USA
  • Blood Lines & Connections, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, USA
  • Full Frontal: Contemporary Asian Artists from the Logan Collection, Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA
  • Spiders and Flies, Newcontemporaries, Sydney, Australia
  • New Zone, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsow, Poland

2002

  • Whitney Biennial 2002, Whitney Museum, New York, USA
  • 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, USA
  • The Gift, Generous Offerings, Threatening Hospitality, The Bronx Museum of Art, New York, USA
  • Subjectivity: Photographs of Themselves, Arizona State University Art Museum, Arizona, USA

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, USA
  • The Gift, Center of Contemporary Art, Siena, Italy
  • Subject Plural: Crowds in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Museum, Texas, USA
  • Metamorphosis and Cloning, Museum of Contemporary Art in Montreal, Canada
  • Naked, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, USA
  • Lateral Thinking, Art of the 1990s, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, USA

2000

  • Art and Religion, Parkabdij Heverlee, Belgium (Organized by Museum S.M.A.K., Gent, Belgium)
  • On the Edge of the Western World, Yerba Buena Center of the Arts,San Francisco, USA
  • Emotional Rescue: The Contemporary Art Project Collection, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, USA
  • Utopia, Rogaland Kunstmuseum, Stavanger, Norway
  • Betreff, Expo 2000, Themenpark, Basic Needs, Hannover, Germany
  • Waterfront**Cultural Bridge 2000, Helsingborg Museum, Sweden and Danmark
  • Sharing Exoticisms, 5th Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France
  • The Standard Projection: 24/7, The Standard Hotel, Los Angeles, USA
  • Video via Venice, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA
  • Socialisms, Special Exhibition / Stockholm Art Fair, Sweden
  • Six Signals: Video by Contemporary Artists, Cheekwood, Nashville, USA
  • Potent /Present: Selections from the Vicki and Kent Logan Collection, CCAC Institute, Oakland, USA
  • Recent Acquisitions, The Doron Sebbag Art Collection, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Isael

1999

  • The Century of the Body: Photoworks 1900*2000, Culturgest, Lisbon, and Musee de LElysee, 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 City, Mexico
  • Best of the Season, Aldrich Museum of Contemporaty Art, Rigefield, USA
  • Stories, A/C Projects, New York, USA
  • Summit, Galerie 5020, Salzburg, Austria
  • Art*Worlds in Dialogue, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
  • Risk Cinema, Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
  • 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, USA
  • Contemporary Collectors, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, USA
  • Transience: Chinese Art at the End of the Twentieth Century, The Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, USA
  • In Your Face, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, USA

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
  • In Your Face, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, USA

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

[edit] Internal links

[edit] External links

  • zhanghuan.com:[3]
  • Lipanje Puntin Contemporary Art Gallery, Trieste, Italy:[4]
  • ARTFACTS.NET:[6]
  • Adam Art Gallery, The Victoria University of Wellington Art Collection:[7]
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