Born in Kunming, Yunnan Province, China. Graduated in1982 from the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, Chongqing, Sichuan. Current: Lives in Beijing. Solo Exhibitions: in 1989 Lost in the Dreams, Gallery of the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, Chongqing, China. In 1997 Bloodline: The Big Family--1997, Gallery of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China. In 1998 Bloodline: The Big Family--1998, Hanart Taibei Gallery, Taiwan. In 1999 Les Camarades, Gallery De France, Pairs, France. In 2000 Zhang Xiaogang 2000, Gallery of Max Potetch, New York, USA. In 2003 Forget and Remember, Gallery De France, Pairs, France. In 2004 Umbilical Cord of History: Paintings by Zhang Xiaogang, Hong Kong Art Center, Hong Kong. Group Exhibitions: in 1989 China Avant--Garde, National Art Gallery, Beijing. In 1992 Documents of China Contemporary Art Show, Travelling Exhibition in Beijing, Guangzhou, Chongqing, Shenyang, Shanghai, Nanjing. In 1993 China’s New Art Post--1989, Hong Kong Art Center, Hong Kong; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia; Marlborough Fine Art, London; Mao Goes Pop, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia; Asia--Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisband, Australia; China’s Experience Exhibition, Sichuan Art Gallery, Chengdu, China. In 1994, 22nd International Biennial of Sao Paulo, Brazil. In 1995, 46th Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy；Des del Pais del center: Aantguarde Artisiques Xineses, Santa Monica Art Center, Barcelona; China New Arts, Vanconver Art Museum, Vanconver, Canada; Contemporary China Art Exhibition, In the Absence of Ldeology Kampnagel Halle--K3, Hamburg. In 1996 The 2nd Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Museum, Australia; 4 Points de Rencotre, China. Reality: Present and future, International Art Palace, Beijing, China; The First Academic Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art, National Art Museum, Beijing; Hong Kong Art Center, Hong Kong. In 1997 International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Basel, Switzerland; The Face and Bodies from the Middle Kingdom, Prague Art Museum, Prague, Czech Republic; Quotation Marks: Chinese Contemporary Paintings, Singapore Art Museum；100 Years of Chinese Oil Painting Portrait, National Art Museum; Red and Grey: Eight Avant--Garde Chinese Artists from China, Soobin Art Gallery, Singapore; China New Art, Lisbon Museum of Art, Portugal；8+8--1: Selected Paintings by 15 Contemporary Artists, Schoeni Gallery International Art Exposition, Berlin. In 1998 China New Art, Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland；Magritte and Contemporary Art, Dostende Contemporary Art Museum, Belgium; International Contemporary Art Collection Exhibition, Amsterdam, the Netherland; Brussels；The First Exhibition of Upriver Gallery’s Collection, Upriver Gallery, Chengdu, China; International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Brussels, Belgium. In 1999, 1999 Art China, LIMN Gallery, San Francisco, U.S.A.；Faces, Masion de la Culture de la Province de Namur （With Georg Baselitz, David Hockney, Camille De Taeye and Ruth Francken） Belgium; 1999 Open Channels -- The First Collection Exhibition of Dong Yu Art Museum, Shenyang; Inside Out: New Chinese Art, Asia Society and P.S.I. Contemporary Art Center, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco and Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Mexico; New Modernism for a New Millennium: Works by Contemporary Asia Artists from the Logan Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and LIMN Gallery, San Francisco, USA. In 2000 Gate of the Century: 1979--1999 the Exhibition of Chinese Art, Chengdu Modern Art Museum, Chengdu, China; Man+SPACE, Kwangju Biennial 2000, Kwangju, Korea; Messagers of the Hearth, Center of Contemporary Art of the LycEe Xavier Bernard in RouillE; Transcending Boundaries, Montclair State University, USA; Portrait de Chine Contemporaine, Espace Culturel Francois Mitterand, Perigueux; Les Passe -- Murailles, Contemporary Art of China, Picardie Museum Amiens, France; The First Collection Exhibition of China Contemporary Art, Shanghai Art Museum, China; China, Art in the Twentieth Century, Touring Show in Beijing and Shanghai, China; Asia Contemporary Art Exhibition, Japan. In 2001 C’est Moi, C’est Nous, Gallery of France, Paris, France; Academic and Un--academic, Yibo Gallery, Shanghai, China; Initial Image -- Contemporary Art on Paper, Yibo Gallery, Shanghai, China; Hot Pot: Chinese Contemporary Art, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway; Towards a New Image Twenty Years of Contemporary Chinese Painting, National Art Museum; Shanghai Art Museum; Sichuan Art Museum; Guangdong Art Museum; The Third Mercosul Biennale, Porto Alegre, Brazil; Dream: 2001 Contemporary Chinese Exhibition, Red Mansio, London, UK; The First Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu Modern Art Museum, Chengdu, China. In 2002, 14 Chinese Artist / Made by Chinese, Enrico Navarra Gallery, Paris, France; Babel 2002, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea; A Point in Time--Changsha, Beauty Art Museum, Changsha, China; Longmarch, Upriver Loft, Kunming, China; Pairs--Beijing, Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris, France; The Concept of Image, Shenzhen Art Museum, China; The First Triennial of Chinese Arts, Guangzhou Museum, China; The First Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou, China; The Power of Image, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China; In Memory: The Art of Afterward, The Sidney Mishkin Gallery, New York, USA; East + West: Contemporary Art of China, Artist--House Vienna, Austria. In 2003, From China with Art, Indonesian National Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia; China 3Face 3Colors, Artside gallery, Seoul , Korea; Open Sky Contemporary Art Exhibition, Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China; The East Daybreak: Chinese Painting One Hundred Years, Africa Museum, Paris, France. In 2004 China Now, Tang Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand; Beyond Boundaries, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China; Shanghai Biennial, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China; Face to Face, Li Art Gallery, Tainan, Taiwan; China, the Body Everywhere? Marseilles Museum of Contemporary Art, France; Three Worlds, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai. In 2005 Take Off--An Exhibition of the Contemporary Art Collection, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen.
