1958 Born in Kunming, Yunnan Province

1992 Graduated from Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, Chongqing

Selected Exhibitions

2009 19 Games-A Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, T Art Centre, Beijing, China (group)

2009 A Gift to Marco Polo, Venice International University, Venice, Italy (group)

2009 Zhang Xiaogang: The Records, Pace Beijing, China

2009 The History of Self-reflection, Yunnan Provincial Museum, China

2009 Zhang Xiaogang: Shadow in the Soul, Queensland Art Gallery, Queensland Australia (solo)

2009 The 53rd Venice Biennale

2009 INAMANIA exhibition, Akon Museum of Art, Copenhagen

2008 Writing on the Wall: Chinese New Realism and Avant-Garde in Eighties and Nineties, Groningen Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands (group)

2008 Case Studies of Artists in Art History and Art Criticism, SZ Art Center, Beijing, China (group)

2008 Our Future: The Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation Collection, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China (group)

2008 Revision, PaceWildenstein, New York, U.S.A. (solo)

2008 Avant-Garde China: Twenty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art, Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan (group)

2008 Facing the Reality: Chinese Contemporary Art, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China (group)

2007 From Southeast, Guangdong Museum of Fine Art, Guangzhou, China (group)

2007 From New Figurative Image to New Painting, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, China (group)

2007 Black White Gray – A Conscious Cultural Stance, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China (group)

2007 Zhang Xiaogang, Sara Hilden Art Museum, Tampere, Finland

2007 Facing Reality exhibition, National Art Museum of China at Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludvig in Vienna, Austria

2007 85 New Wave: The Birth of Chinese Contemporary Art at UCCA Beijing

2006 Home, Solo Show, Beijing Commune, Beijing, China

2006 Home, Solo Show, Beijing Commune, Beijing, China

2006 Amnesia and Memory, Gallery Artside, Seoul, South Korea

2006 The Blossoming of Realism – The Oil Painting from Mainland China since 1978, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, China (group)

2006 China Now: Fascination of a Changing World, SAMMLUNG ESSL Museum, Vienna, Austria (group)

2006 Reinventing Books in Chinese Contemporary Art, China Institute, New York, U.S.A. (group)

2006 Jiang Hu – Chinese Contemporary Art European and American Traveling Exhibition, Tilton Gallery, New York, U.S.A. (group)

2006 Food and Desire, South Silk Restaurant, Beijing, China (group)

2006 Zhang Xiaogang Exhibition, The Art Centre of Tokyo, Japan (solo)

2005 Zhang Xiaogang 2005, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, U.S.A. (solo)

2005 The Game of Realism, Beijing Commune, Beijing, China

2004 Umbilical Cord of History, Paintings by Zhang Xiaogang, Hong Kong Art Center, Hong Kong

2004 China, the Body Everywhere?, Museum of Contemporary Art Marseilles, Marseilles, France

2004 Shanghai Biennial, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China

2003 From China with Art, National Gallery Jakarta, Indonesian

2003 Forget and Remember, Gallery of France, Paris, France

2002 The First Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Art Museum, China

2002 Babel 2002, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea

2001 Hot Pot-Chinese Contemporary Art, Artist Center of Oslo, Norway

2001 The III Mercosul Bienal, Porto Alegre, Brazil

2000 MAN + SPACE, Kwangju Biennale 2000 Kwangju, Korea

2000 Messengers of the Heart, Centre de l'art contemporain de lycée X. Bernard Rouillé, France

2000 Zhang Xiaogang 2000, Gallery of Max Protetch, New York, America

1999 "Inside Out: New Chinese Art", Asia Society and P.S.1. Contemporary Art Center, New York / Modern Art Museum of San Francisco

1999 New Modernisme for a New Millenium: Works by Contemporary Asian Artists from the Logan Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and LIMN Galler San Francisco, CA

1999 Les Camarades, Galerie de France Paris

1998 China New Art, Helsinki Art Museum Helsinki, Finland

1998 Bloodline: The Big Family 1998, Hanart Gallery, Taipei, China (solo)

1997 The Faces and Bodies from Middle Kingdom, Prague Art Museum Prague, Czech Republic

1997 Bloodline: The Big Family, Gallery of The Central Academy of Fine Arts Beijing

1995 46th Venice Biennal, Venice, Italy

1993 China's New Art, Post - 1989, Hong Kong Art Center Hong Kong

1992 Documents of China Contemporary Art Show, travelling exhib, Beijing, Guangzhou, Chongqing, Shenyang, Shanghai

1991 I Don't Want to Play Cards with Cézanne and Other Works, Selection from t, Pacific Asia Museum Pasadena, CA

1989 China/Avant-Garde, National Art Gallery Beijing

1989 Lost Dreams, Gallery of the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, Chongqing, China (solo)