Born in 1958 in Kunming, Yunnan Province, he was admitted to the Oil Painting Department of sichuan fine arts institute in 1977. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in 1982 and was employed in distinguished professor, sichuan fine arts institute in 2007.  Now I work and live in Beijing, China.  In the early 1990s, under the influence of western modernist painting, he began to use photo materials for creative exploration. He used the style of modern Chinese popular art to express the facial makeup portrait of the revolutionary era, ” blood-family” series.  This series of works conveys the collective psychological memory and emotion with the significance of the times, and represents and simulates the typical representation and re-interpretation of society, the collective, the family and the blood relationship.  In 1994, the ” Big Family” series was selected in the 46th Venice Biennale and received attention from the international art field. Zhang Xiaogang has gradually become a leading figure in Chinese contemporary art and has repeatedly set a high historical price for Chinese art in the art auction market.  However, as an artist, Zhang Xiaogang pays more attention to his artistic creation. In addition to the well-known ” big family” series, he has also successively created ” amnesia and memory” series, ” inside and outside” series, ” green wall” series, mirror series, painting and sculpture series, etc., and has held individual exhibitions in various art galleries at home and abroad.  Zhang Xiaogang has been exploring the road of artistic creation, which critics describe as ” a real Chinese artist working in a studio!”

” big family (series: big family)”, ” no 1 (series: inside and outside)”, ” no 1 (series: green wall)”, ” No.21 (series: amnesia and memory),” no 1 (series: Tiananmen square), ” four sisters (series: consanguinity)”, ” no 1 (series: heroic children)”, ” certificate” and ” boy” etc.　

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Group Exhibitions