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1965 Born An Yang City, He Nan Province, China
Lives and Works in Shanghai and New York
EDUCATION
1993
MA, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
1988
BA, He Nan University, Kai Feng, China
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007
Zhang Huan: Altered States, Asia Society, New York, USA
Zhang Huan: Ash, Haunch of Venison, London, England
Zhang Huan: Berlin Buddha, Haunch of Venison, Berlin, Germany
Zhang Huan, PhotoEspana 2007, Madrid, Spain
Zhang Huan-Drawings, Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin, Germany
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
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008
Body Language: Chinese Photography, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
2007
Exposed: Defining Moments in Photograph from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
ZHUYI! CHINA. Contemporary Photography from China, Artium of Alava, Centre Museum of Contemporary Art, Spain
Made in China, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
Water, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Timer.01, Intimacy, 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
The Quiet Gesture, Recent Chinese Art, The Newark Museum, Newark, USA
Contemporary Combustion: Chinese Artists in America, The New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, USA
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
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 
Radar - Selection from the Logan Collection, Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA
Drawing as Process in Contemporary Art, Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA
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 Uli Sigg Collection, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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, Switzerland
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
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
Constructed 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
2003 Beaufort, 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
2002 Whitney Biennial, 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 onContemporary 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
6 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, Israel
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
COLLECTIONS
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA 

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California, USA
The Kent and Vicki Logan Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California, USA
The Denver Art Museum, Colorado, USA 

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, USA
University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA
Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, USA
University at Buffalo, Buffalo, USA
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA 

Norton Museum of Art, Florida, USA
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA 

Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, USA
New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana, USA
Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio, USA
Yale University, Connecticut, USA
Emily Fisher Landau Collection, New York, USA 

The Marieluise Hessel Foundation Collection at Bard College, Center for Curatorial Studies, Annendale-on-Hudson, New York, USA
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Chicago, Illinois, USA 

Philip Morris Co. New York, New York, USA 

The Progressive Collection, Mayfield Village, Ohio, USA 

REFCO INC. Chicago, Illinois, USA
Rubell Family Collection, Miami, Florida, USA 

Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, USA
Red Mansion Foundation, London, UK

The Charles Saatchi Collection, London, UK

Museum of Contemporary Art, Leon, Spain
Center of Contemporary Art, Malaga, Spain 

Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, Spain
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain 

National Gallery of Australia, Australia
Museum of Art Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland
The Pompidou Center, Paris, France
Capital Research Company Collection, Hong Kong 

Asia Museum of Fukuoka, Japan 

Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan
The Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan 

The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
S.M.A.K., Gent, Belgium 

Espirito Santo Bank, Lisbon, Portugal
Inhotim Contemporary Art Center, Inhotim, Brazil
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