ZHANG HUAN
Born
An Yang City, He Nan Province, China, 1965
Education
He Nan University, Kai Feng, China, B.A.
Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China, M.A.
Lives and works in Shanghai and New York
Selected One-Person Exhibitions
2013
Looking East, Facing West: The World of Zhang Huan, Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, MI
2012
The Mountain is Still a Mountain, White Cube, South Galleries, London, England
Director and Set Designer, Semele, Opera, Opera House, Toronto, Canada
2011
Zhang Huan: Q Confucius, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China
49 Days, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
Zhang Huan: East Wind, West Wind, Espace Louis Vuitton Macau, Macau
Zhang Huan: Aura of Disappearance, Edouard Malinque Gallery, in Cooperation with The Pace Gallery, Hong Kong
Zhang Huan: Ash Banquet, ProjectB Gallery, Milan, Italy
2010
Head from Buddha Foot, Sculpture Garden at 590 Madison Ave, New York, NY
Zhang Huan: Dawn of Time, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Zhang Huan: Amituofo, Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
Zhang Huan, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Zhang Huan: Ashman, PAC Museum, Milan, Italy
Zhang Huan: Free Tiger Returns to Mountains, Pace Beijing, Beijing, China
Director and Set Designer, Semele, Opera, Poly Theatre, Beijing, China
Zhang Huan: Hope Tunnel, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2009
Director and set designer, Semele, Opera, Theatre Royal de La Monnaie de Munt, Brussels, Belgium
Neither Coming Nor Going, PaceWildenstein, New York, NY
Zhang Huan, Zhuu Gangqian, White Cube, London, England
Zhang Huan: Memory Doors, Haunch of Venison, Zurich, Switzerland
Zhang Huan, Rebirth, ProjectB Contemporary Art, Milan, Italy
Zhang Huan: Three-Legged Buddha, La Monnaie, Brussels
2008
Zhang Huan: Blessings, PaceWildenstein, New York, NY
Zhang Huan, Paintings and Sculptures, Diehl + Gallery One, Moscow, Russia
Zhang Huan, Works from the Collection Caspar H. Schubbe, DSV Group, Stuttgart, Germany
Zhang Huan – Unique Woodcuts, Pace Prints, New York, NY
2007
Zhang Huan: Altered States, Asia Society, New York, USA; traveled to Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Zhang Huan: Ash, Haunch of Venison, London, England
Zhang Huan: Berlin Buddha, Haunch of Venison, Berlin, Germany
PhotoEspana 2007, Madrid, Spain
Zhang Huan-Drawings, Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin, Germany
Zhang Huan: Three-Legged Buddha, Royal Academy of Arts, Annenberg Courtyard, London, England
Zhang Huan: Drawings, AMT Gallery, Como, Italy
Zhang Huan: My Rome-Roma, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Rome, Italy
2006
Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin, Germany
Sherman Galleries, Sydney, Australia
The Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London, England
Zhang Huan: Selected Works 1995-2006, Max Lang Gallery, New York, NY
2005
Zhang Huan: Seeds of Hamburg, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2004
La Fabrica Galeria, Madrid, Spain
Tri Postal, Lille 2004, Cultural Capital of Europe, Lille, Franc
Zhang Huan: Seeds of Hamburg, Norton Museum of Art, Florida, November 20, 2004-February 20, 2005; traveled to Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, September 17, 2005-January 16, 2006
2003
Bochum Museum, Bochum, Germany
Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin, Germany
Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
2002
Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, November 30, 2002-February 9, 2003; traveled to Kunstmuseum Bochum, Germany, April 5-June 15, 2003; and Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Denmark, September 6-November 2, 2003
2001
Zhang Huan, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, USA
Zhang Huan, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Zhang Huan, Museo das Peregrinacións, 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
Cotthem Gallery, Brussles, Belgium
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; traveled to Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand
1988
He Nan University, Kai Feng, China
Selected Group Exhibitions
2012
Superbodies, 2012 Hasselt, Hasselt, Belgium
2011
Skin, The Foundation of Claude Verdan, Museum of Science and Art, Lausanne, Switzerland
About Identity, Art Stations Foundation by Grazyna Kulczyk, Poznan Poland
Il mondo vi appartiene (The World Belongs to You), Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy
Living, The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
Glasstress 2011, Venice, Italy
Big Brother : L'artiste face aux tyrans, Palais des Arts, Dinard, France
2011 Haein Art Project, Haeinsa, Hapcheon, Korea
Human Nature: Contemporary Art from the Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2010
Shanghai-San Francisco Sister City 30th Anniversary Celebration, Joseph L. Alioto Performing Arts Piazza, San Francisco, CA
Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Hope! The City of Dinard, Dinard, France
Art for The World: City of Forking Paths, World Expo 2010, Shanghai, China
Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Arts and Cities, Aichi Triennale 2010, Aichi, Japan
The Silk Road, From Saatchi Gallery, Tri Postal, Lille, France
Photography from The New China, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA
The Tiger in Asian Art, Asia House, London, UK
Negotiations, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
The Naked Face: Self Portrait, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Rehearsal, 2010 Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China
2009
The Buhl Collection: Speaking with Hands, Daelim Contemporary Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
Action-Camera: Beijing Performance Photography, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
STEELLIFE, La Triennale di Milano, Milano, Italy
Yi Pai-Century Thinking, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
Photography Now: China, Japan, Korea, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
The Social Critique 1993-2005, Kalmar Konstmuseum, Kalmar, Sweden
Re_View, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Between Art and Life: The Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Beg Borrow and Steal, The Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
100 Years, A Draft of a History, PS1 Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
Miltos Manetas, Malcolm McLaren, Zhang Huan, Galleria Pack, Milan, Italy
Three Decades: The Contemporary Chinese Collection, Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
Underwater, Western Bridge, Seattle, WA
2008
Avant-garde China, Twenty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art, The National Art Center, Tokyo, August 20-October 20, 2008; traveled to The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan, December 9-2008-March 22, 2009; and Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan, April 3-May 24, 2009
A Space of Time, La Fabrica Galeria, Madrid, Spain
Body Language: Chinese Photography, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Half-Life of a Dream: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Collection of Kent and Vicki Logan, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Person of the Crowd, Neuberger Museum of Art, New York, NY
China Gold, Contemporary Chinese Art, Museum of Maillol, Paris, France
Sculpture at Pilane 2008, Tjorn, Sweden
Position and Deposition: Franko B/Zhang Huan, Galleria Pack, Milano, Italy
Origins, Hudson Valley Center, New York, NY
Encounters, Pace Beijing, Beijing, China
The Revolution Continues: New Art From China, Saatchi Gallery, London, England
Writing on the Wall: Chinese New Realism and Avant-garde in the Eighties and Nineties, Groningen Museum, Netherlands
Christian Dior & Chinese Artists, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Meat After Meat Joy, Daneyal Mahmood Gallery, New York, NY
Meat After Meat Joy, Pierre Menard Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2007
Zhù Yì!: Chinese Contemporary Photography, ARtium, Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporaneo, Vitoria, Spain
Made in China: The Estella Collection, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark, March 16-August 5, 2007; traveled to The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, September 18, 2007-March 1, 2008
Timer: Intimità, Triennale Bovisa 2007, Milan, Italy
Voiceless: I feel therefore I am, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, Australia
Red Hot: Asian Art Today from the Chaney Family Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
The Quiet Gesture, Recent Chinese Art, The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
Contemporary Combustion: Chinese Artists in America, The New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
Contemporary Art on Paper, Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA
An Instinctive Eye: A Selection of Contemporary Photographs from the Sir Elton John Collection, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine
Grey Water, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
All for Art! Our Great Private Collectors Share Their Works, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Quebec, Canada
Photographies, New Acquisition 2003-2007, Center Pompidou, Paris, France
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Existencias, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León, Spain
Chinese Relativity: Part 2, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, NY
Neue Arbeiten: Zhang Huan / Shilpa Gupta / Jagannath Panda, Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin, Germany
The Year of the Golden Pig: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, University College Cork, Ireland
Photography, Benoot Gallery, Oostende, Belgium
MCA Exposed: Defining Moments in Photography, 1967-2007, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Asiana: A Survey of Contemporary Asian Art, Artcore/Fabrice Marcolini, Toronto, Canada
Photo España 2007, International Photography Festival, Madrid, Spain
Water in Art and Life, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Isreal
2006
Shoot the Family, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
China: Zwischen Vergangenheit und Zukunft, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
Gallery Artists Group Show 6, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong, China
Making a Scene, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel
Reverence, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, New York, NY
Fever Variations, The 6th Gwangju Biennale 2006, Gwangju, Korea
Radar - Selection from the Logan Collection, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Drawing as Process in Contemporary Art, Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Who’s Afraid of China?, Palazzo Pino Pascali, Bari, Italy
Banquet: A Feast for the Senses, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA
The Wonderful Fund: Collecting Art for the New Millenium, The Pallant House, West Sussex, England
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, Switzerland, June 13-October 16, 2005; traveled to Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany, September 14, 2006-February 18, 2007
Fusion: Aspects of Asian Culture in the MUSAC Collection, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León, Spain
Locus Loppem, Kunsthalle Lophem, Loppem, Belgium
Between Skin and Orgasm: The Alchemistic Body, Kunsthalle Lophem, Loppem, Belgium
Monuments for the USA, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA
Viewpoints: Chinese Photography Today, Chambers Fine Art, New York, NY
Hoch Hinaus, Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun, Switzerland
Persistence, Aura Gallery, Shanghai, China
Gallery Artists Group Show 5, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong, China
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, January 26-May 1, 2005; traveled to David Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, MA, February 13-June 3, 2005; Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN, June 20-September 24, 2006
Person of the Crowd, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD
Future Face, National Museum of Natural Science, Taiwan
The Wall, Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art, The China Millennium Monument Art Gallery, Beijing, China, July 15-August 15, 2005; traveled to Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; the University at Buffalo, Anderson Gallery; and University at Buffalo, Center of the Arts, October 21, 2005-January 29, 2006
The Pictures of Dorian Gray, Galeria de Arte Mexicano, Mexico City, Mexico
2004
Witness, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Regeneration, Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US, Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, PA, January 26-April 4, 2004; traveled to David Winton Bell Gallery, List Art Center, Brown University, November 6-December 23, 2004
Gallery Artists Group Show 3, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong, China
Face/Off, The Association of Arts and Crafts Pforzheim, Pforzheim, Germany
Dialogue with Pop, The Tank, Spaceworks Gallery, New York, NY
The Art Project Goetzen, Houses of an Idol, Frankfurt (Oder) and Slubice, Germany and Poland
Democracy was Fun, White Box, New York, NY
The Amazing and the Immutable, University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL
Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, International Center of Photography, New York, NY, June 11–September 4, 2004; traveled to Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, IL, October 2, 2004–January 16, 2005; Seattle Art Museum, Washington, February 10–May 15, 2005; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England, September 15, 2005–January 15, 2006; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany,March 24–May 14, 2006; and Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA, July 1–September 1, 2006
Me, Myself & I, University Galleries, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
Casa de luz – Colección Mário Teixeira da Silva, Fundació Foto, Barcelona, Spain
Neither Here Nor There: Video Artists navigate Cultural Displacement, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN
Camera/Action: Performance and Photography, The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL
Constructed Identities, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, KA
Gallery Artists Group Show 4, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong, China
Anthro/Socio, The: Artist: Network, New York, NY
Face to Face, Aura Gallery, Shanghai, China
Inward Gazes: Documentaries of Chinese Performance Art, Macao Museum of Art, Macao, China
Queens International 2004, Queens Museum of Art, New York, NY
Monument to Now: The Dakis Joannou Collection, The Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
2003
The Museum Collections, New Presentation of Art Works from 1960 to the Present Day, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Somewhere Better Than This Place, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
Supernova: Art of the 1990s from the Logan Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Gallery Artist Group Show 2, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong, China
2003 Beaufort, Triennial for Contemporary Art by the Sea, The PMMK, the Museum of Modern Art, Ostend, Belgium
Art Project, DiverseWorks Artspace, Houston, TX
Temporal Mood, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX
Rituale, Akademie der Kunste, Berlin, Germany
Family Ties, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
Body Politics, Elga Wimmer Gallery, New York, NY
Imperfect Innocence: Debra & Dennis Scholl Collection, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD, January 11-March 11, 2003; traveled to Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, FL, March 15-June 15, 2003
Banquet, Metabolism and Communication, ZKM, Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
Photo España 2003, International Photography Festival, Madrid, Spain
Phantom der Lust: Visionen des Masochismus, 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: Il corpo come luogo del segno artistico, Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy
Let’s All Get Together: Sociability, Leisure and Other Political Reasons for Meeting, Artium, Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria, Spain
Windstil, Cotthem Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Gallery Artists Group Show, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong, China
In faccia al mondo. Il ritratto contemporaneo nel medium fotografico, Museo d’arte contemporanea di Villa Croce, Italy
Performance and Almost Performance, Reina Sofia National Museum, Madrid, Spain
Models and Mavericks, Museum het Domein, Sittard, The Netherlands
BQE Part I, White Box, New York, NY
Blood Lines & Connections, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO
Full Frontal: Contemporary Asian Artists from the Logan Collection, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Spiders and Flies, Newcontemporaries, Sydney, Australia
New Zone, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
Zhang Huan, Zhang Jianjun, Weihong: In Houston, DiverseWorks ArtSpace, Houston, TX
2002
2002 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum, New York, NY
Skin Talks, Musee de la Civilisation, Quebec, Canada
Attachment+, Kunsthalle Lophem, Center for Contemporary Art, Aalst, 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, WA
Subjectivity: Photographs of Themselves, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
Mark of Mirror? A Play of Portraits, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
That Place, The Moore Space, Miami, FL
Photographs, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, NY
Shock and Show: Realtà e alternative, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Rome, Italy
2001
Yokohama 2001: International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Pacific Yokohama, Japan
Subject Plural: Crowds in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
Métamorphoses et clonage, Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada
Naked, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, PA
Lateral Thinking, Art of the 1990s, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
The Gift: Generous Offerings, Threatening Hospitality, Palazzo delle Papesse-Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy, June 2–September 23, 2001; traveled to Centro Culturale Candiani, Mestre, Italy, October 14, 2001–January 6, 2002; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ, February 7–May 5, 2002; Bronx Museum of Art, New York, NY, November 22, 2002–March 2, 2003; Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, April 11–June 22, 2003; and Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, August 16–October 18, 2003
Translated Acts: Performance and Body Art from East Asia 1990–2001, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany, March 8–May 6, 2001; traveled to Queens Museum of Art, New York, NY, October 23, 2001–February 1, 2002
Shortcuts, The Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece
New Acquisitions from the Dakis Joannou Collection, The Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece
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, CA
Emotional Rescue: The Contemporary Art Project Collection, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
Utopia, Rogaland Kunstmuseum, Stavanger, Norway
Expo 2000: Basic Needs, Themenpark, Hannover, Germany The Standard Projection: 24/7, The Standard Hotel, Los Angeles, CA
Video via Venice, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
Socialisms, Special Exhibition / Stockholm Art Fair, Sweden
6 Signals: Video by Contemporary Artists, Cheekwood, Nashville, TX
Potent/Present: Selections from the Vicki and Kent Logan Collection, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, Oakland, CA
Recent Acquisitions, The Doron Sebbag Art Collection, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Epifanie: Actuele Kunst en Religie, Abdij van Park, Heverlee, Belgium organized by S.M.A.K., The Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art Gent, Belgium
Kulturbro 2000, Helsingborg Museum, Helsingborg, Sweden
Partage d’Exotismes, 5th Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France
Supermodel: Identity and Transformation, LipanjePuntin arte contemporanea, Rome, Italy
1999
Lost Paradise II, Presença Galeria, Porto, Portugal
Self-Portrait, Mercer Union, Centre for Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada
Cinco continentes y una ciudad: segundo salón internacional de pintura, Museum of Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico
Best of the Season, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
Stories, A/C Projects, New York, NY
Summit, Galerie 5020, Salzburg, Austria
Risk Cinema, Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
48th La Biennale di Venezia, dAPERTutto: Aperto over All, Venice, Italy Contemporary Collectors, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
Transience: Chinese Art at the End of the Twentieth Century, The Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, IL
In Your Face, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
The Century of the Body: Photoworks 1900-2000, Culturgest, Lisbon, October 6–December 19, 1999; traveled to Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland, February 3, 2000–January 14, 2001
Art-Worlds in Dialogue, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Self-Portrait: Loans from the Invisible Museum, Mercer Union, Centre for Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada
1998
In Your Face, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
Inside Out: New Chinese Art, Asia Society, New York, and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, September 15, 1998–January 3, 1999; traveled to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, CA, February 26–June 1, 1999; Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Mexico, July 9–October 19, 1999; Tacoma Art Museum, WA and Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA, November 18, 1999–March 7, 2000; and The National Gallery of Australia, June 3–August 13, 2000
Autonomous Action, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand
1997
Chinese Contemporary Art 1997, Watari Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1996
China Art Festival, Munich, Germany
Art Material of China’s Avant-Garde, Fuku, Tokyo, Japan
1995
Configura 2, Erfurt, Germany
1993
Graduate Exhibition, Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, China
Catalogs and Publications
2011
49 Days. Los Angeles: Blum & Poe, 2011. Text by Winston Kyan.
Adicéam, Ashok. Big Brother: l’artiste face aux tyrans. Paris: Editions Flammarion, 2011.
Bourgeois, Caroline. Il mondo vi appartiene. Milan: Electa, 2011.
Chiu, Melissa and Benjamin Genocchio, eds. Contemporary Art in Asia: A Critical Reader. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2011, 191-192.
Klanten, Robert, Matthias Hübner, Alain Bieber, Pedro Alonzo, and Gregor Jansen, eds. Art & Agenda: Political Art and Activism. Berlin: Gestalten, 2011: 170-173.
Zhang Huan: East Wind, West Wind. Macao: Espace Louis Vuitton Macao, 2011.
2010
Art for The World: The City of Forking Paths. Shanghai: JGM. Galerie, 2010, 92-95.
Mallet, Sylvie and Ashok Adicéam. Hope!: une exposition d’art contemporain sur l’espoir. Paris: Skira; Flammarion, 2010.
Pollack, Barbara. The Wild, Wild East: An American Art Critic’s Adventures in China. Hong Kong: TimeZone 8, 2010: 71.
La route de la soie: Lille2000, Saatchi Gallery. Paris: Beaux arts, 2010.
Zhang Huan: Out of the Ashes. Seoul: Hakgojae Gallery, 2010.
“Zhang Huan” in Aichi Triennale 2010: Arts and Cities, 224-25. Nagoya: Aichi Triennale Organizing Committee, 2010.
“Zhang Huan” in 100 Masterpieces of Photography. Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2010: 99.
Zhang Huan: Amituofo. Taiwan: Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, 2010.
Zhang Huan: Ashman. Milan: 24 ORE Cultura, 2010.
Zhang Huan: Dawn of Time. China: Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House, 2010.
Zhang Huan: Free Tiger Returns to Mountains. Text by Huang Du. China: Pace Beijing, 2010.
2009
Action-Camera: Beijing Performance Photography. Texts by Keith Wallace, Thomas J. Berghuis and Maya Kovskaya. Vancouver, BC: Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, 2009.
Ardenne, Paul. Art le present: La création plasticeinne au tournant du XXIe siècle. Paris: Éditions Du Regard, 2009: 179.
Beg, Borrow, Steal. Miami: The Rubell Family Collection, 2009: 260–263.
Bonham-Carter, Charlotte and David Hodge. The Contemporary Art Book. London: Goodman, 2009: 244.
Chuck Close: Selected Paintings and Tapestries 2005-2009. New York: PaceWildenstein, 2009.
Genocchio, Benjamin. “Zhang Huan,” Guide 2009–2010: La Monnaie de Munt. Brussels: La Monnaie de Munt, 2009: 133-148.
O’Reilly, Sally. The Body in Contemporary Art. London: Thames & Hudson, 2009: 110-111.
Robertson, Jean. Themes of Contemporary Art: Visual Art after 1980. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009: 107.
Rush, Michael. The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis. New York: Abrams, 2009: 11, 218, 219.
Steellife. Milan: La Triennale di Milano, 2009.
Von Bennigsen, Silvia, Irene Gludowacz and Susanne van Hagen. Global Art. Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2009: 238.
Wu, Hong. Zhang Huan Studio: Art and Labor. Guilin City, China: Guangxi Normal University Press, 2009.
Zhang Huan. Texts by Yilmaz Dziewior, RoseLee Goldberg and Robert Storr. London: Phaidon Press, 2009.
“Zhang Huan” in The China Project. Queensland, Australia: Queensland Art Gallery, 2009: 134-135.
Zhang Huan, Rebirth. Milan: ProjectB Contemporary Art, 2009.
Zhu Gang Qiang. Texts by Susannah Hyman, Zhang Hong and Liu Jingjing. London: White Cube, 2009.
2008
Albertini, Claudia. Avatars and Antiheroes: A Guide to Contemporary Chinese Artists. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 2008: 156-159.
China Gold, Contemporary Chinese Art. Paris: Musée Maillol, 2008: 164-169.
Chiu, Melissa. Chinese Contemporary Art: 7 Things You Should Know. New York: AW Asia, 2008.
Dictionnaire International de la Sculpture Moderne & Contemporaine. Paris: Éditions du Regard, 2008: 558.
Franko B./Zhang Huan. Milan: Galleria Pack, 2008.
Half-Life of a Dream: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Logan Collection.
San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2008: 122-125.
Hatry, Heide. “Zhang Huan.” In Meat After Meat Joy, 44-49. New York: Daneyal Mahmood Gallery; Cambridge, MA: Pierre Menard Gallery, 2008.
Hansen, Mette Halskov and Stig Thogersen. Kina: Individ og samfunn. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 2008.
Heartney, Eleanor. Art & Today. London: Phaidon, 2008: 220-222.
Hendrikse, Cees, ed. Writings on the Wall: Chinese New Realism and Avant-Garde in the Eighties and Nineties. Texts by Thomas Berghuis, Francesca Dal Lago, Sabine Wang and Eduardo Welsh. Rotterdam: NAi Publishers and Groninger Museum, 2008.
Piras, Sebastian. A Pocketful of Contemporary Artists. Victoria, Australia: Peleus Press, 2008: 112–113.
The Revolution Continues, New Art from China. London: Saatchi Gallery, 2008: 68-71.
Vine, Richard. New China, New Art. Munich: Prestel Verlag, 2008: 82-84, 108-111.
Wu, Hong. Making History: Wu Hung on Contemporary Art. Hong Kong: Timezone 8, 2008: 39.
“Zhang Huan.” In Avant-garde China: Twenty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art, 92-97. Tokyo: National Art Center, 2008
Zhang Huan: Blessings. Texts by Zhang Huan and Daniel Kunitz. New York: PaceWildenstein, 2008.
Zhang Huan: Buddha. London: Haunch of Venison, 2008.
Zhang Huan: Werke aus der Sammlung Caspar H. Schübbe. Stuttgart: Deutscher Sparkassenverlag, 2008.
2007
All for Art! In Conversation with Collectors. Montreal: Museé des beaux-arts de Montréal, 2007: 227.
Artworks: The Progressive Collection. New York: Distributed Art Publishers, 2007: 189.
China Art Book. Cologne: Dumont, 2007, 592-599.
Chiu, Melissa. Breakout: Chinese Art Outside China. Milan: Charta, 2007, 108–113.
Collection Photographs. Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 2007: 334.
A Dictionary of Photographers: PhotoEspaña 1998-2007. Madrid: La Fábrica, 2007: 598–601.
Erickson, Britta. China Onward: The Estella Collection, Chinese Contemporary Art, 1996–2006. Denmark: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2007: 400–409.
Existencias. León, Spain: MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, 2008.
Grey Water. Brisbane, Australia: IMA Institute of Modern Art, 2007.
An Instinctive Eye: Selection of the Contemporary Photographs from the Collection of Sir Elton John. Kiev: Pinchuk Art Centre, 2007: 64-67.
Mercurio, Gianni and Demetrio Paparoni. Timer: intimità. Milan: Skira, 2007: 176-179.
Zhang Huan. Madrid: PhotoEspaña; Fundación Telefónica, 2007.
Zhang Huan: Altered States. Texts by Melissa Chiu, Kong Bu and Eleanor Heartney. Milan: Edizioni Charta, 2007.
Zhang Huan: Ash. Texts by Philip Tinari and Nina Miall. London: Haunch of Venison, 2007.
Zhang Huan: Drawings. Berlin: Galerie Voker Diehl, 2007.
Zhù Yì!: fotografía actual en China. Barcelona: Ajuntament de Barcelona, Institut de Cultura; Vitoria-Gasteiz: Artium, 2007: 88.
2006
Gwangju Biennale 2006: Fever Variations. Seoul, Korea: Designhouse, 2006: 36–37.
Nairne, Sandy. The Portrait Now. London: National Portrait Gallery, 2006: 88–89.
Robecchi. Michele. Zhang Huan habla con Michele Robecchi. Madrid: La Fábrica; Fundación Telefónica, 2006.
Shoot the Family. Text by Ralph Rugoff. New York: Independent Curators International, 2006: 46–47.
Branà, Rosalba, ed. Chi ha paura della Cina? (Who’s Afraid of China?). Bari, Italy: Palazzo Pino Pascali, 2006.
Zhang Huan. Text by Mark Gisbourne. Berlin: Galerie Volker Diehl, 2006.
Zhang Huan: Selected Works 1995–2006. Text by Lilly Wei. New York: Max Lang Gallery, 2006.
2005
Between Skin and Orgasm-The Alchemic Body. Belgium: Kunsthalle Lophem, 2005: 266–271.
Erickson, Britta. On the Edge: Contemporary Chinese Encounter the West. Stanford, CA: Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, 2005: 66–69.
Fibicher, Bernhard and Matthias Frehner, eds. Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection. Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany: Hatje Cantz, 2005: 158–159.
Gao, Minglu.The Wall: Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art. Buffalo, NY: Albright Knox Art Gallery; Beijing: Millennium Art Museum, 2005.
Hoch Hinaus. Thun, Switzerland: Kunstmuseum Thun, 2005: 40–43.
Hoffmann, Jens and Joan Jonas. Perform. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2005: 98–99.
Marsh, Margaret, Craig Malyon and Michelle Watts. A.R.T. 2 Practice. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2005: 87.
Post Modern Portraiture from the Logan Collection. Vail, CO: Logan Collection Vail, 2006: 310-311.
Rugoff, Ralph. Monuments for the USA. San Francisco: CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, 2005: 156-157.
The Season: un progetto. Text by Gianluca Marziani. Milan: Galleria Pack, 2005: 142-160.
Taylor, Brandon. Art Today. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2005: 196.
2004
Anker, Suzanne and Dorothy Nelkin. The Molecular Gaze: Art in the Genetic Age. Cold Spring Harbor, New York: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2004: 39.
Bass, Jacquelynn and Mary Jane Jacob. Buddha Mind in Contemporary Art. Berkley: University of California Press, 2004, 240-247.
Cameron, Dan and Jeffrey Deitch. Monument to Now: the Dakis Joannou Collection. Athens: DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, 2005: 446-447.
Cotton, Charlotte. The Photograph as Contemporary Art. London: Thames & Hudson, 2004: 24.
Coetzee, Mark. Not Afraid: Rubell Family Collection. London: Phaidon, 2004: 186–187.
Eikmeyer, Robert. Face/Off. Frankfurt am Main: Revolver, 2004: 144–148.
Heathfield, Adrian. Live: Art and Performance. New York: Routledge, 2004: 133, 204.
Heckert, Virginia. The Amazing & The Immutable. Tampa, FL: University of South Florida; Contemporary Art Museum, 2004: 36.
Hung, Wu and Christopher Phillips. Between Past and Future, New Photography and Video from China. Chicago: Smart Museum of Art; New York; International Center of Photography, 2004: 140.
Regeneration: Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US. Lewisburg, PA: Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University: 68–69.
Sofaer, Joshua. The Performance Pack. London: Tate; Live Art Development Agency, 2004.
Witness: Darren Almond, Brenda L. Croft, Zhang Huan, Witfield Lovell, the Atlas Group- Walid Raad, Fiona Tan. Sydney: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2004: 34–41.
Zhu Qi, ed. Chinese Avant-Garde Photography Since 1990. Guangdong: Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House, 2004: 93.
2003
Dziewior, Yilmaz. Zhang Huan. Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany: Hatje Cantz; Hamburg: Kunstverein Hamburg, 2003.
Full Frontal: Contemporary Asian Artists from the Logan Collection. Denver: Denver Art Museum, 2003.
In faccia al mondo: Il ritratto contemporaneo nel medium fotografico. Genoa: NEOS, 2003.
Grynsztejn, Madeleine. Supernova: Art of the 1990s from the Logan Collection. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; New York: DAP, Distributed Art Publishers, 2003.
Neubauer, Susanne. “Zhang Huan.” In Me and More, 74-81. Luzern, Switzerland: Kunstmuseum Luzern, 2003.
Skin Deep: Il corpo come luogo del segno artistico. Milan: Skira, 2003.
Somewhere Better Than This Place: Alternative Social Experience in the Spaces of Contemporary Art. Cincinnati: Contemporary Arts Center, 2003: 206–207.
Weibel, Peter. “Zhang Huan.” In Phantom der Lust: Visionen des Masochismus, 510-511. Graz, Austria: Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum; Munich, Germany: Belleville, 2003.
“Zhang Huan.” In Triennial for Contemporary Art by the Sea: 2003 Beaufort, 76-81. Belgium: Vzw Ku(n)st; Ostend, Belgium, PMMK, 2003.
2002
Attachment+. Brugge, Belgium: Kunsthalle Lophem, 2002, 90-105.
La Mirada Ajena. Vitoria, Spain: ARTIUM, Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, 2002: 58–67.
Kamps, Toby. Lateral Thinking: Art of the 1990s. San Diego: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2002: 66–67.
Lucie-Smith, Edward. Art Tomorrow. Paris: Terrail, 2002: 196-197.
Osborne, Peter. Conceptual Art. London: Phaidon, 2002: 188.
Rinder, Lawrence. 2002 Biennial Exhibition . New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2002: 236–237.
SAM Collects ContemporaryArtProject. Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, 2002: 20-21.
2001
Heartney, Eleanor. The Naked Truth. Pittsburgh: Wood Street Galleries, 2001.
Il dono: offerta, ospitalità, insidia. Milan: Charta, 2001: 450.
International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Yokohama 2001. Tokyo: Organizing Committee for Yokohama Triennale, 2001: 113, 372–373.
Kim, Yu Yeon. Translated Acts: Performance and Body Art from East Asia, 1990–2001. Berlin: Haus der Kulturen der Welt; New York: Queens Museum of Art, 2001: 84–85.
Maraniello, Gianfranco, Sergio Risaliti and Antonio Somaini. Il dono: offerta, ospitalità, insidia. Milan: Charta, 2001.
Marchand, Sandra Grant. Métamorphoses et clonage. Montreal: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2001: 46–47.
Morsiani, Paola. Subject Plural: Crowds in Contemporary Art. Houston: Contemporary Arts Museum, 2001: 34–37.
Zhang Huan. Santiago de Compostela: Xunta de Galicia; Barcelona: Cotthem Gallery, 2001.
2000
Epifanie: Actuele Kunst en Religie. Antwerp: Halewijn, 2000.
Fineberg, Jonathan. Art Since 1940: Strategies of Being. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2000: 486.
Lurie, Aya. Exposure: Recent Acquisitions, The Doron Sebbag Art Collection O.R.S. Ltd. Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 2000: 35–38.
Partage d’exotismes: 5e Biennale d’art contemporain de Lyon. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2000.
Potent Present: Selections from the Vicki and Kent Logan Collection. San Francisco: California College of Arts and Crafts, 2000.
Zhang Huan: My America. New York: Deitch Projects, 2000.
1999
La Biennale di Venezia: 48 Esposizione Internatazionale d’Arte: dAPERTutto. Venice: La Biennale di Venezia; Marsilio, 1999: 260–263.
Five Continents and One City: Second International Salon of Painting. Ciudad de México: Gobierno del Distrito Federal, 1999.
Gao, Minglu. Cinco continentes y una ciudad: segundo salón internacional de pintura. Mexico City: Gobierno del Distrito Federal, 1999.
Kunst-Welten im Dialog: von Gauguin zur globalen Gegenwart, Museum Ludwig Köln. Cologne: DuMont, 1999.
Lost Paradise. Porto, Portugal: Galeria Presença, 1999.
Wu, Hung. “Speaking the Unspeakable.” In Transience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century, 102-107. Chicago: David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, 1999.
Carmichael, Kelly, and Robert Leonard, eds. Zhang Huan: Performances on Video. Auckland, New Zealand: Richard Dale: Artspace; New Plymouth, New Zealand: Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, 1999.
1998
Gao, Minglu. Inside Out: New Chinese Art. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; New York: Asia Society; Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998: 49.
Yang, Alice. Why Asia: Contemporary Asian and Asian American Art. New York: New York University Press, 1998.
1997
Chinese Contemporary Art 1997. Tokyo: Watari-um, 1997.
1995
Configura 2: Dialog Der Kulturen. Erfurt: Configura-Projekt, 1995.
Articles and Reviews
2013
Rutka, Jacob. "What's the Meaning of This?: Zhang Huan's Rising." Grid (Toronto), January 14, 2013.
2012
"Series of Large Scale Bottles Created by Zhang Huan Sets Winery Auction Record at Sotheby's Hong Kong," Artdaily.org, April 29, 2012.
Tully, Judd. “Judicial Resale-Rights Scuffle.” Art + Auction 35, no. 5 (January 2012): 45-46.
2011
Bill, Bush. “Between Death and Reincarnation: This Artweek.LA (June 6-12),” Huffington Post, June 7, 2011.
Helmke, Juliet. “Hog Heaven.” Art + Auction 34, no. 9 (May 2011): 54.
Parrino, Manuela. “Zhang Huan.” L’uomo Vogue, no. 421 (May-June 2011): 188-191, 254.
Seno, Alexandra A. “China’s Zhang Turns Ash Into Spectacle,” Wall Street Journal, October 22, 2011.
“Zhang Huan’s ’49 Days’ at Blum & Poe Los Angeles,” Huffington Post, July 8, 2011.
Zhao, William. “Performing for Asceticism.” Modern Weekly, no. 643, April 16, 2011.
2010
Baker, Kenneth. “Big Ideas Behind a Very Big Sculpture in S.F.,” San Francisco Chronicle, June 13, 2010.
Bartlett, Voon Pow. "Zhang Huan: Zhu Gangqiang." Yishu 9, no. 1 (January-February 2010): 72-79.
“Buddha Silence of Milan,” IL Sole 24 ORE (Italy), July 6, 2010.
Ciric, Biljana. “Zhang Huan’s Today and Tomorrow.” Flash Art, no. 272 (May-June 2010): 68.
Colard, Jean-Max. "Maximum Exposure." Les Inrockuptibles, no. 753 (May 2010): 30-33.
Epstein, Victor. “New York Parks Add Two Mammoth Metal Men,” The New York Observer, July 12, 2010.
Finkel, Jori. “Chinese Artist Zhang Huan's 'Three Heads, Six Arms' a Monumental Shift,” Los Angeles Times, May 14, 2010.
Genocchio, Benjamin. “Paradise Regained.” Life Magazine (China), no. 52 (March 2010): 184-189.
Genocchio, Benjamin. “Zhang Huan: Paradise Regained.” Yishu 9, no. 4 (July-August 2010): 73-83.
Gordon, Amanda. “Heads Up.” ARTnews 109, no. 3 (March 2010): 30.
Huan, Zhang. "My Principle of the Art Is 'Those Who Submit Shall Perish, Those Who Resist Will Prosper'," Art World (China), no. 238 (January-February 2010): 74-76.
Liu, Pinyu. "Q Zhang Huan," Bazaar Art, no. 261 (September 2011): 82-103.
Liu, Xiuyi. "Zhang Huan: Dawn of Time." Leap (China), no. 127 (April 2010): 188-191.
Lu, Carol Yinghua. “How it Appears.” Frieze, no. 129 (March 2010): 98-103.
Lynch, Elizabeth. “Commissions.” Sculpture 29, no. 10 (December 2010): 22-23.
Pollack, Barbara. “Taking Center Stage.” ARTnews 109, no. 2 (February 2010): 80–85.
Qin, Zhongwei. "Artist Puts Body and Souls into Work," China Daily, June 7, 2010.
“Review: Zhang Huan’s ‘Free Tiger Returns to Mountains’,” City Weekend, June 28, 2010.
Sausset, Damien. “Le désastre selon Zhang Haun.” Connaissance des Arts, no. 685 (September 2010): 66.
Wang, Yueyang. "Spotlight on Zhang Huan," Xinmin Weekly (China), no. 23 (June 2010): 74-76.
Wood, Catherine. “The Art of Writing with People.” Tate Etc., no. 20 (Autumn 2010): 40-47.
Wu, Meng. "Spirit Wandering in the Body." ARTCO (Taiwan), no. 210 (April 2010): 140-144.
Xu, Ke and Bai, Jiafeng. "From the Individual Metaphor to Collective Memory-Zhang Huan and His ' Dawn of Time'." Art China, no. 61 (February-March 2010): 27-31.
"Zhang Huan." Art Box (Japan) 8 (2010): 32-33.
"Zhang Huan: Hehe Xiexie." ARTCO (Taiwan), no. 210 (March 2010): 7.
2009
Aloi, Giovanni. “Zhang Huan: White Cube, London.” Flash Art 42, no. 269 (November–December 2009): 90.
Armstrong, Stephen. "Huan Step Beyond." Wallpaper (October 2009): 112-116.
Baecker, Angie. “Zhang Huan: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants.” Art Asia Pacific, no. 66 (November-December, 2009): 88–97.
Battle, Laura. “Handel in Chinese,” Financial Times, August 29, 2009.
Byrt, Anthony. “London: Zhang Huan,” Artforum.com, September 21, 2009.
Canning, Hugh. "Chinese Takeaway," The Sunday Times (UK), September 13, 2009.
Christiansen, Rupert. "What's Handel Doing in a Ming Temple," The Daily Telegraph (UK), August 22, 2009.
Christiansen, Rupert. “Zhang Huan: From Baroque to Beijing,” Telegraph (UK), August 21, 2009.
“The Creative 50: Zhang Huan.” Creativity (February 2009): 31.
Dosogne, Christophe. "Long Live the Contemporary Art-Stephane Janssen Collection." Collect (France), no. 404 (November 2009): 26-31.
Ferrari, Stefano. "Zhang Huan Ash Painting." Arte (Italy), no. 430 (June 2009): 90-93.
Gao, Minglu. "Individual Life Experience and the Happening Form of Collective: The Performance Art of Zhang Huan." Contemporary Art & Investment, no. 35 (November 2009): 34-47.
Hudson, Mark. "Hogging the Limelight: Pigs are Stars of the Show," The Daily Telegraph (UK), September 8, 2009.
Hung, Wu. “An Experiment in Contemporary Art Creation’s Mechanism: Wu Hung vs. Zhang Huan,” Artzine 2009.
Januszczak, Waldemar. “Zhang Huan pig installation in St. James’s,” Timesonline, September 13, 2009.
Johnson, Ken. “Art in Review: Zhang Huan, ‘Neither Coming Nor Going,’” New York Times, December 25, 2009.
Kóvskaya, Maya. “Christian Dior & Chinese Artists.” Art Review, no. 29 (January-February 2009): 125.
Li, Jing and Cao Jie. "A Factory Produces Arts," The Bund (China), no. 368, December 31, 2009.
Liu, Jingjing. "A Kind of Elegant Violation: Zhang Huan and His Semele." Life Magazine (China), no 48 (November 2009): 174-187.
Loomis, George. “A Chinese Spin on Baroque Opera,” International Herald Tribune, September 16, 2009.
Lu, Carol Yinghua. “Back to Contemporary: One Contemporary Ambition, Many Worlds.” E-Flux, no. 11 (December 2009): 1-9.
Mian, Mian. "Far Away from Heaven," Modern Weekly (China), October 17, 2009: 82-84.
Mian, Mian. "Zhang Huan's Semele and Art Adventure," Nanfang Weekend (China), October 22, 2009.
Pasquarella, Sheri. "Zhang Huan Stopped by Chuck Close's New York Studio," Tar (Spring 2009): 80-84.
Perra, Daniele. "Zhang Huan." Kult (Italy), no. 5 (May 2009): 44-49.
Rexer, Lyle. "Coup de Theatre, Around Zhang Huan's First Opera." DAMn, no. 23 (December 2009-January 2010): 20-27.
Sewell, Brian. "What a Performance," London Evening Standard, September 3, 2009.
Shannon, Joshua. “Commentary: The Lure of the Contemporary: Some Thoughts on a Field in Transition.” American Art: Smithsonian American Art Museum 23, no. 3 (Fall 2009): 2–7.
Slenske, Michael. “Zhang Huan’s Buddha Means Business.” Art in America online, December 10, 2009.
"Super Studios." Wallpaper (June 2009): 138.
Ullens, Guy. “The Little Guy from Berlin.” Whitewall (Fall 2009): 72.
Warren, Tamara. "Across the Universe." Clear Magazine, no. 33 (2009): 138-139.
Vine, Richard. “In Sight: Artists Take on Opera.” Art in America 97, no. 9 (October 2009): 34.
Yang, Andrew. “Assimilating Semele.” Modern Painters (September 2009): 36-37.
"Zhang Huan," Some/Things Magazine (France) (2009): 40-51.
"Zhang Huan: The Creativity 50." Creativity (February 2009): 31.
2008
Auricchio, Laura. “Future Anterior: An Index to Contemporary Art’s Imminent History: Zhang Huan,” Art Papers (September-October 2008): 67.
Carrier, David. “Straddling East and West.” ArtUS, no. 21 (New Year 2008): 48-49.
Castro, Jan Garden. "New Vocabularies: A Conversation with Zhang Huan." Sculpture 27, no.1 (January-February 2008): 24-29.
Collins, Matthew. “Stop Being So Alienated All the Time: My Three Days in New York Among the Gallery-Hopping Social-Climbing Primitives.” Modern Painters (July-August 2008): 32–34.
Driscoll, Ian. “Arne Glimcher: A Titan in the Middle Kingdom.” Art Asia Pacific (July-August 2008): 78–81.
Edidin, Peter. “Shanghai Cancels Art Exhibition,” New York Times, March 1, 2008.
Feaver, William. “The Revolution Continues.” ARTnews 107, no. 11 (November 2008): 132.
Franzen, Jonathan. “Letter from the Yangtze Delta: The Way of the Puffin,” New Yorker, April 21, 2008.
Griffin, Kevin. "Zhang Huan Pushes His Body to Extremes for Art," Vancouver Sun (Canada), August 16, 2008.
“In the Air: Tour de Chelsea.” Art + Auction (July 2008): 15.
Kerr, Merrily. “Zhang Huan: Blessings,” Time Out New York, July 10-16, 2008.
Kinsella, Eileen. “$24 Billion and Counting.” ARTnews 107, no. 5 (May 2008): 122–129.
Lederman, Marsha. "The New Face of Chinese Art," Globe Review (Canada), July 2, 2008.
“Zhang Huan: ‘Blessings’ at PaceWildenstein,” New York Times, May 30, 2008.
Montreuil, Gregory. “Jumbo-Sizing Tradition: In New York, Zhan Huan adds Western Provocation to Chinese Craft,” Gay City News, June 12-18, 2008.
Naves, Mario. “That’s a Nice Piece of Ash!” New York Observer, June 10, 2008.
Nedo, Kito. "Artmonk in Capitalism." Art Magazine (Germany) (August 2008): 42-51.
Osborne, Lawrence. “Zhang’s Dynasty,” Men’s Vogue, April 2008.
Panero, James. “Made in China.” The New Criterion 27, no. 4 (December 2008): 29-32.
Picard, Charmaine. “Manhattan Dealers Open in China.” Art Newspaper 17, no. 192 (June 2008): 59.
Pollack, Barbara. “The Chinese Art Explosion.” ARTnews 107, no. 8 (September 2008): 118–127.
Pollack, Barbara. “From a Bed of Ice to a 20-Foot Hand,” ARTnews 107, no. 4 (April 2008): 124–129.
Reyna, Juan Carlos. "Zhang Huan." Picnic (Mexico) (August 2008): 20-24.
Richard, Frances. “Zhang Huan, Asia Society.” Artforum (January 2008): 284.
Seddon, Max. "Sadness, Despair and Ash at Zhang Huan Show," The Moscow Times (Russia), December 15, 2008.
Shiner, Eric C. “Zhang Huan: Altered States.” Modern Painters 20, no. 1 (February 2008): 104-105.
Slenske, Michael. “Sleeping Giant Awakened,” men.style.com, May 8, 2008.
Smith, Roberta. “Zhang Huan, Blessings,” New York Times, May 23, 2008.
Vogel, Carol. “Amid Asian Art Boom, Manhattan Gallery to Open Branch in Beijing,” New York Times, April 29, 2008.
Wullschlager, Jackie. "The Revolution Continues, New Art from China," Financial Times (UK), October 11, 2008.
“Zhang Huan.” Art Newspaper 17, no. 192 (June 2008): 76.
"Zhang Huan." Beaux Arts (May 2008): 20.
“Zhang Huan,” New Yorker, June 28, 2008.
"Zhang Huan." Sleek (Germany) (Spring 2008): 68-69.
"Zhang Huan." Status (Greece), no. 242 (May 2008): 144-148.
“Zhang Huan: Altered States.” Art Newspaper 17, no. 192 (June 2008): 86.
“Zhang Huan: Blessing.” Art in Asia, no. 6 (July-August 2008).
“Zhang Huan ‘Blessings,’” New York Art Beat, 2008.
"Zhang Huan: Recklessness and Wisdom." Art World (China), no. 215 (February 2008): 56-61.
2007
“The 10th PhotoEspana.” Art Context (Spain) (February 2007): 84.
“Art: Museums and Libraries,” New Yorker, September 24, 2007.
Barboza, David. “Avant-Garde Art from the Factory Floor,” International Herald Tribune, September 5, 2007.
Barboza, David. “Provocateur’s Products Roll Off the Assembly Line,” The New York Times, September 3, 2007.
Borysevicz, Mathieu. “Inside Zhang Huan’s New Art Factory,” Art in America 95, no. 11 (December 2007): 110.
Buck, Louisa. “Art Goes Global,” Art Quarterly (Summer 2007): 38–41.
Budick, Ariella. “Artist Zhang Huan’s Asia Society Exhibit,” Newsday, September 14, 2007.
Camhi, Leslie. “The No-Year Plan Art: Hungry Flies, Sculpted Ashes, Beds of Ice-The Peculiar World of Chinese Art Star Zhang Huan,” Village Voice, October 2, 2007.
Cesare, T. Nikki. “New York: Zhang Huan,” Artforum.com, November 2007.
Cotter, Holland. “Chinese Art, In One Man’s Translation,” New York Times, September 7, 2007.
Cotter, Holland. “Art Boom in China Has Ripples Over Here,” New York Times, September 9, 2007.
Dodd, Philip. "Ashes to Ashes," DAMn, no. 14 (2007): 26-33.
Dodd, Philip. “You Have to Keep Creating a New Self,” Financial Times (UK), September 22, 2007.
Esplund, Lance. "Made in China," Sun New York, September 6, 2007.
"From Noir to Nirvana, How China's First Art Maverick Found Peace," Tank (UK), no. 5 (2007): 38-39.
“Goings on About Town,” New Yorker, September 17, 2007.
Holmes, Pernilla. “Zhang Huan: They Thought I Was Insane,” Telegraph (UK), September 22, 2007.
Perlman, Ellen. “Zhang Huan: Altered States.” Brooklyn Rail (October 2007):33.
Pollack, Barbara. "Art's New Super Power." Vanity Fair, no. 568 (December 2007): 318-329.
Pollack, Barbara. “Made in China,” Time Out, September 6-12, 2007.
Qusaibaty, Olivia. "Zhang Huan: Altered States." ARTiT (Japan), no. 17 (Fall-Winter 2007).
Shears, Jenny. "Only to Provoke." Clear, no. 4 (2007): 28-35.
Shyr, Luna. “In The Studio.” Art + Auction, no. 4 (December 2007): 6, 78–86.
Teh, David. “Zhang Huan: Thinking Big.” Art Asia Pacific, no. 55 (September-October 2007): 110–111.
“Three Legged Buddha,” Evening Standard (UK), October 8, 2007.
Vine, Richard. “The Labors of Narcissus.” Art in America (December 2007): 106–111.
Yang Yingshi. “Zhang Huans ‘Spiritual Trail’.” Orientations 38, no. 5 (June 2007): 55-58.
“Zhang Huan.” Art Context (Spain) (March 2007): 136–137.
"Zhang Huan Altered States," Asian Art Newspaper, November 16, 2007.
2006
Ayers, Robert. “Zhang Huan: Max Lang,” ARTnews 105, no. 11 (December 2006): 152-153.
2005
Kim, Jiae. “Losing Himself in His Art.” Theme, premier issue (February 2005): 50–55.
Matheson, Susan B. Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2005): 195.
Sausset, Damien. “Paris Photo.” Photo (France), no. 424 (November 2005): 78–83.
Zaunschirm, Thomas. “IX. Fremde Menschen-Vertraute Tiere.” Kunstforum International, no. 175 (April-May 2005): 65-69.
“Zhang Huan.” Matador, vol. Orient (Spain) (2005): 90–101.
2004
“Art on the Plaza.” Sculpture Magazine 23, no. 2 (March 2004): 14.
“Baby,” (Netherlands) no. 11, Autumn 2004: 131.
Cereceda, Miguel. “Monstrous in Contemporary Art,” Arte y Naturaleza (Spain), no. 34 (November 2004): 6–9.
Cheng, Meiling. “Clandestine Interventions.” Public Art Review 16, no. 1 (2004): 26–29.
Etxeberria, David. “Zhang Huan.” Umbigo (Portugal), no. 11 (2004): 36–37.
Hooper, Mark. “We’ve Got This One Licked,” i-D Magazine (September 2004): 206.
Lin, Xiaoping. “Globalism or Nationalism? Cai Guoqiang, Zhang Huan, and Xu Bing in New York.” Third Text 18, no. 4 (July 2004): 279-295.
Liu, Melinda. “China’s Glasnost,” Newsweek International, August 9, 2004.
Napack, Jonathan. “Young Beijing,” Art in America 92, no. 6 (June-July 2004).
“Peace.” Art in America 92, no. 6 (June-July, 2004).
Pollack, Barbara. “Chinese Photography: Beyond Stereotypes,” ARTnews 103, no. 2 (February 2004): 98–103.
Przerwa, Xenia Tetmajer von. “Me and More: The Variable Boundaries of the Self.” Art AsiaPacific, no. 40 (Spring 2004): 77.
Ritson, Alicia. “Zhang Huan: Performances.” TAASA Reviews (Australia) 13, no. 1 (2004): 12–13.
Vine, Richard. “Zhang Huan, Weihong and Zhang Jian-Jun at DiverseWorks and Barbara Davis.” Art in America 92, no. 2 (February 2004): 130.
Vine, Richard. “Six Ways of Looking at New China.” Art in America, no. 6 (June–July 2004): 128.
Yu, Christina. “Tangible Metaphors.” Next Level (UK) 3, no.1 (2004): 20–25.
2003
Bauer, Marilyn. “Costars with Art,” Cincinnati Enquirer, June 1, 2003.
Erickson, Britta. “Backflow: Returned Chinese Artists.” Artlink (Australia) 23, no. 4 (2003): 16-31.
“Focus Photography.” Flash Art, no. 232 (October 2003): 93.
Gleeson, David. “Berlin, Germany, Reviews, International,” Art Papers (September-October 2003): 60.
Kevles, Bettyann Holtzmann and Daniel J. Kevles. “Truth, Beauty and the Double Helix,” Newsweek, February 24, 2003.
“Peace.” Public Art Review, no. 15 (2003): 42.
Sand, Olivia. “Zhang Huan,” Asian Art Newspaper, January 2003.
Schiff, Hajo. “Zhang Huan.” Kunstforum International (March–April 2003).
Vogel, Carol. “From War to ‘Peace,’” New York Times, August 1, 2003.
Wahjudi, Claudia. “Rituale: Akademie der Künste, Berlin.” Kunstforum International, no. 165 (June-July 2003): 272-275.
Wei, Lilly. “Lilly Wei on Chinese Artists and the Marketplace.” Art AsiaPacific, no. 38 (Fall 2003): 28-30.
Wichmann, Dominik. “Interview with Zhang Huan,” Suddeutsche Zeitung
Magazine, no. 38, September 19, 2003.
Yao, Souchou. “Two Faces of Contemporary Art in China.” Artlink 23, no. 4 (2003).
2002
Blanco, Jorge. “Zhang Huan, Naked Truth.” Planet (Spring 2002): 42–43.
Carr-Harris, Ian. “Zhang Huan.” Contemporary (UK) (January 2002): 6–7.
Goldberg, Roselee. “Zhang Huan.” Artforum 40, no. 7 (March 2002): 139.
Heartney, Eleanor. “The Body East.” Art in America 90, no. 4 (April 2002): 46.
Phillips, Christopher. “Crosscurrents in Yokohama.” Art in America 90, no. 1 (January 2002): 88–89.
2001
“America 2001: A Beach Odyssey.” Aperture, no.164 (Summer 2001): 58.
Borras, Maria Lluisa. “Zhang Huan.” AtlAntica (Spain), no. 28 (2001): 26.
Borysevicz, Mathieu. “Before and After.” Art Asia Pacific, no. 30 (2001): 57–61.
Olesen, Alexa. “Making Art of Masochism and Tests of Endurance,” New York Times, November 11, 2001.
“Yokohama 2001, International Triennale of Contemporary Art: Mega-Wave, Towards a New Synthesis.” Monthly Art Magazine (January 2001): 77.
2000
Anton, Saul. “Zhang Huan: ‘My America.’” Time Out (May 2000): 73.
Borysevicz, Mathieu. “Zhang Huan at Deitch Projects.” Art in America 88, no. 10 (October 2000): 168.
Carr, C. “Stripped Down,” Village Voice, May 9, 2000.
“Cinco Continentese,” Yuna Ciudad (Spain), no. 25 (2000).
“Imagenes que Gritan.” Agenda (Spain), no. 38 (November 2000).
Len, Ling. “Body Express, Interview with Zhang Huan.” Culture Publication (China) (2000): 138–153.
Robinson, Peter. “A Raw Look at Changing China,” Canberra Times (Australia), June 3, 2000.
Taylor, Victor Zamudio. “Five Continents and One City: Second International
Salon of Painting Mexico City, Mexico,” AtlAntica (Spain), no. 25 (2000): 88–89.
“Zhang Huan.” Zoo (UK), no. 4 (January 2000): 176–177.
“Zhang Huan: Blood, Sweat--and a Few Dollars,” El Cultural ABC (Spain), November 4, 2000.
1999
Anton, Saul. “Zhang Huan: Maoist Mask of an Anonymous Everyman,” Flash Art 32, no. 207 (Summer 1999): 96.
“The Biennale of Global Culture.” Domus (Germany), no. 819 (October 1999).
Goodman, Jonathan. “Zhang Huan at Max Protetch.” Art in America 87, no. 9 (September 1999): 130–131.
Kelley, Jeff. “Viewpoint.” Artweek 30, no. 5 (May 1999): 4.
Lu, Alvin. “Dogs Eye View,” San Francisco Bay Guardian, April 14, 1999.
Liu, Calvin. “Body and Soul,” Asianweek, April 15, 1999.
Qian, Zhijian. “Performing Bodies: Performance Art in China.” Art Journal 58, no. 2 (Summer 1999): 60–71.
Smith, Roberta. “Zhang Huan,” New York Times, February 12, 1999.
Wang, Ruiyun. “Zhang Huan and His Art.” Art Observation (China), no. 48 (1999).
Yu, Hsiao-Hwei. “Zhang Huan.” Chinese Art News (Taiwan), no. 20 (April 1999): 65–68.
1998
“Art from Post-Tiananmen China.” Social Text, no. 55 (Summer 1998): 83-91.
Cotter, Holland. “Art That’s a Dragon with Two Heads,” New York Times, December 13, 1998.
Gao, Minglu. “Extensionality and Internationality in a Transnational Cultural System.” Art Journal 57, no. 4 (Winter 1998): 36-39.New York Magazine, no. 28, September 1998.
Wild Life (China), 1998.
1997
Article Highlights (Japan) (August 1997).
China Books Monthly, May 1997.
Grey Book, no. 3 (1997).
1996
China (Germany), August 1996.
Chūgoku kenkyū geppō (China Research Monthly) 50, no. 6 (June 1996).
1995
Artists (December 1995).
Stern (December 1995).
Technika Art, no. 18 (June-July 1995).
White Book (China), no. 2 (1995).
Zyma (Germany) (January-February 1995).
Art (Germany) (August 1995).
1994
Ming Pao Monthly (Hong Kong), November 1994.
Dragon Art (Taiwan) (March 1994).
Black Book (China), no. 1 (1994).
Public Collections
Asia Museum of Fukuoka, Japan
Bard College, Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Capital Research Company Collection, Hong Kong, China
Center of Contemporary Art, Malaga, Spain
Centre national d’art et de culture Georges Pompidou, Paris
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Massachusetts
Denver Art Museum, Colorado
Emily Fisher Landau Collection, New York
Espirito Santo Bank, Lisbon, Portugal
Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan
Fukuoka Asia Art Museum, Japan
The Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
Inhotim Contemporary Art Center, Brazil
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Chicago, Illinois
Louis Vuitton Foundation for Creation, Paris, France
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museum of Art Lucerne, Switzerland
Museum of Casa Anadia, Anadia, Portugal
Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona
Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla
Museum of Contemporary Art, Leon
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania
Philip Morris Co. New York, New York
The Pompidou Center, Paris, France
The Progressive Collection, Mayfield Village, Ohio
Queensland Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia
Red Mansion Foundation, London
Reed College, Portland, Oregon
REFCO INC. Chicago, Illinois
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
Rubell Family Collection, Miami, Florida
The Saatchi Collection , London
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California
Seattle Art Museum, Washington
Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
S.M.A.K., The Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art Gent, Belgium
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York
The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, Chicago
Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Kansas
University at Buffalo, New York
University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley
The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
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