1965
Born in An Yang City, He An Province, China
1988
BA, He Nan University, Kai Feng, China
1993
MA, Central Academy of fine Arts, Beijing, China
Lives and works in Shanghai and New York
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2007
Zhang Huan: Altered States, Asia Society, New York,
Zhang Huan, Haunch of Venison, London
Zhang Huan, PhotoEspana 2007, Madrid
Zhang Huan-Drawings, Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin
2006
Zhang Huan, Max Lang Gallery, New York
Zhang Huan, Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin
Zhang Huan, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
2005
Seeds of Hamburg, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
2004
Seeds of Hamburg, Norton Museum of Art, Florida
La Fabrica Galeria, Madrid
Tri postal, Lille 2004. Cultural Capital of Europe, Lille
2003
Bochum Museum
Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin
Photo and Video, Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen
2002
Kunstverein Hamburg
2001
Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York
The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto
Museo das Peregrinacions, Santiago de Compostela
Family Tree, Galerie Albreet Benamou, Paris
2000
My America, Deitch Projects, New York
Survey, Adam Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Cotthem Gallery, Belgium
Cotthem Gallery, Barcelona
1999
Works From 1994-1998, Max Protetch Gallery, New York
Performance on Video, Artspace, Sydney
Performance, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand
1988
He Nan University, Kai Feng
Group Exhibitions (Selection)
2007
Exposed: Defining Moments in Photograph from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
ZHUYI! CHINA. Contemporary Photography from China, Artium of Alava, Center Museum of Contemporary Art
Made in China, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen
Timer.01, Intimacy, Triennale Bovisa 2007, Milan
Voiceless: I feel therefore I am, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
2006
Shoot the Family, Cranbrook Art Museum, Michigan, USA
2005
The Museum Collections, New Presentation of Art Works from 1960 to the Present Day, Center Pompidou, Paris
Mahjong, Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern
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
Regeneration, Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US, Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Pennsylvania,
2003
Somewhere Better Than This Place, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
Body Politics, Elga Wimmer Gallery, New York
Banquet, Metabolism and Communication, ZKM, Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe
Phantom of Desire, Visions of Masochism in Art, Neue Galerie, Graz
Me and More, Museum of Art Lucerne, Lucerne
2002
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum, New York Skin Talks, Musee de la Civilisation, Quebec,
China Contemporary Art Exhibition--Red Continent, Gwangju Art Museum, Korea
Paisajes del Cuerpo, Sala Zapateria 40, Pamplona, Spain
La Mirada Ajena, Artium, Vitoria, Spain
2001
Yokohama 2001: International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Pacifico Yokohama, Japan
Translated Acts, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, and Queens Museum of Art, New York
Metamorphosis and Cloning, Museum of Contemporary Art in Montreal
Naked, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh
Lateral Thinking, Art of the 1990s, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
2000
Betreff, Expo 2000, Themenpark, Basic Needs, Hannover
Waterfront--Cultural Bridge 2000, Helsingborg Museum, Sweden and Denmark
1999
The Century of the Body: Photoworks 1900-2000, Culturgest, Lisbon, and Musee de LElysee, Lausanne, France
Five Continents and a City: Second International Salon of Painting, Museum of Mexico City, Mexico City
Art-Worlds in Dialogue, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Risk Cinema, Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville
Zhang Huan: A Video Survery 1994-1998; Performance Art from China, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
La Biennale di Venezia, Venice
The Kent and Vicki Logan Collection, San Francisco
Contemporary Collectors, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
Transience: Chinese Art at the End of the Twentieth Century, The Smart Museum of Art, Chicago
In Your Face, New Langton Arts, San Francisco
1997
Chinese Contemporary Art 1997, Watari Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1996
China Art Festival, Munich, Germany
Selected Performances
2005
My Rome, Capitoline Museums, Rome, Italy
Untitled, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern
Untitled, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
2004
My Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
2003
Fifty Stars, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
Buddhist Relics, DiverseWorks Artspace, Houston
18 Years Old, Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen
Fifty Stars, Somewhere Better Than This Place, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
Buddhist Relics, DiverseWorks Artspace, Houston, USA
2002
My New York, Whitney Biennial, New York
2001
My Japan, Yokohama 2001, International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Japan
Pilgrimage--Santiago, Museo das Perigrinacions, Santiago de Compostela
Family Tree in Shanghai, Concept Photograph, Shang Hai, China
2000
Rubens, Parkabdij, Heverlee, Belgium (Organized by Museum S.M.A.K., Gent
Flowers, Helsingborg Museum, Sweden
Family Tree, Concept Photograph, New York
Chickenpox, Concept Photograph, New York
My Australia, National Gallery of Australia
1999
Hard to Acclimatize, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Dream of the Dragon, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
My Pigeons, Concept Photograph, New York
Sunshine Series, Concept Photograph, New York
Breathe Series, Concept Photograph, Miami
1998
Pilgrimage--Wind and Water in New York, Body Experiment, PS 1
Museum of Contemporary Art, Long Island City
1/2 Series, Concept Photograph, Beijing
Foam Series, Concept Photograph, Beijing
1997
Skin Series, Concept Photograph, Beijing
To Raise the Water Level in a Fish Pond, Beijing
3006/m3:65KG, Watari Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1996
Nine Holes, Beijing
To Add One Meter to an Anonymous Mountain, Beijing
Contact of the Third Kind, Second Concept and Experiment, Beijing
25mm Threading Steel, Complete One Hour Body Experiment, Beijing,
Contact of the Third Kind, First Concept and Experiment, Beijing
Concept and Participation in the Original Sound, 10 Artists Performing
Individually on a Common Theme in a Given Place, Dong Bian Men, Beijing
1994
65KG, One Hour Body Experiment in Beijing East Village, Private Studio
12m/2, One Hour Body Experiment in Beijing East Village, Public Toilet
1993
Angel, First Body Experiment, China National Art Gallery, Beijing, China
1992
Angel 1 and 2, Achievement of a Three Dimensional Work, Beijing
Memorial Series, Achievment of a Three Dimensional Work, Beijing
Born in An Yang City, He An Province, China
1988
BA, He Nan University, Kai Feng, China
1993
MA, Central Academy of fine Arts, Beijing, China
Lives and works in Shanghai and New York
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2007
Zhang Huan: Altered States, Asia Society, New York,
Zhang Huan, Haunch of Venison, London
Zhang Huan, PhotoEspana 2007, Madrid
Zhang Huan-Drawings, Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin
2006
Zhang Huan, Max Lang Gallery, New York
Zhang Huan, Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin
Zhang Huan, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
2005
Seeds of Hamburg, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
2004
Seeds of Hamburg, Norton Museum of Art, Florida
La Fabrica Galeria, Madrid
Tri postal, Lille 2004. Cultural Capital of Europe, Lille
2003
Bochum Museum
Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin
Photo and Video, Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen
2002
Kunstverein Hamburg
2001
Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York
The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto
Museo das Peregrinacions, Santiago de Compostela
Family Tree, Galerie Albreet Benamou, Paris
2000
My America, Deitch Projects, New York
Survey, Adam Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Cotthem Gallery, Belgium
Cotthem Gallery, Barcelona
1999
Works From 1994-1998, Max Protetch Gallery, New York
Performance on Video, Artspace, Sydney
Performance, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand
1988
He Nan University, Kai Feng
Group Exhibitions (Selection)
2007
Exposed: Defining Moments in Photograph from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
ZHUYI! CHINA. Contemporary Photography from China, Artium of Alava, Center Museum of Contemporary Art
Made in China, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen
Timer.01, Intimacy, Triennale Bovisa 2007, Milan
Voiceless: I feel therefore I am, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
2006
Shoot the Family, Cranbrook Art Museum, Michigan, USA
2005
The Museum Collections, New Presentation of Art Works from 1960 to the Present Day, Center Pompidou, Paris
Mahjong, Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern
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
Regeneration, Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US, Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Pennsylvania,
2003
Somewhere Better Than This Place, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
Body Politics, Elga Wimmer Gallery, New York
Banquet, Metabolism and Communication, ZKM, Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe
Phantom of Desire, Visions of Masochism in Art, Neue Galerie, Graz
Me and More, Museum of Art Lucerne, Lucerne
2002
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum, New York Skin Talks, Musee de la Civilisation, Quebec,
China Contemporary Art Exhibition--Red Continent, Gwangju Art Museum, Korea
Paisajes del Cuerpo, Sala Zapateria 40, Pamplona, Spain
La Mirada Ajena, Artium, Vitoria, Spain
2001
Yokohama 2001: International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Pacifico Yokohama, Japan
Translated Acts, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, and Queens Museum of Art, New York
Metamorphosis and Cloning, Museum of Contemporary Art in Montreal
Naked, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh
Lateral Thinking, Art of the 1990s, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
2000
Betreff, Expo 2000, Themenpark, Basic Needs, Hannover
Waterfront--Cultural Bridge 2000, Helsingborg Museum, Sweden and Denmark
1999
The Century of the Body: Photoworks 1900-2000, Culturgest, Lisbon, and Musee de LElysee, Lausanne, France
Five Continents and a City: Second International Salon of Painting, Museum of Mexico City, Mexico City
Art-Worlds in Dialogue, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Risk Cinema, Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville
Zhang Huan: A Video Survery 1994-1998; Performance Art from China, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
La Biennale di Venezia, Venice
The Kent and Vicki Logan Collection, San Francisco
Contemporary Collectors, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
Transience: Chinese Art at the End of the Twentieth Century, The Smart Museum of Art, Chicago
In Your Face, New Langton Arts, San Francisco
1997
Chinese Contemporary Art 1997, Watari Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1996
China Art Festival, Munich, Germany
Selected Performances
2005
My Rome, Capitoline Museums, Rome, Italy
Untitled, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern
Untitled, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
2004
My Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
2003
Fifty Stars, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
Buddhist Relics, DiverseWorks Artspace, Houston
18 Years Old, Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen
Fifty Stars, Somewhere Better Than This Place, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
Buddhist Relics, DiverseWorks Artspace, Houston, USA
2002
My New York, Whitney Biennial, New York
2001
My Japan, Yokohama 2001, International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Japan
Pilgrimage--Santiago, Museo das Perigrinacions, Santiago de Compostela
Family Tree in Shanghai, Concept Photograph, Shang Hai, China
2000
Rubens, Parkabdij, Heverlee, Belgium (Organized by Museum S.M.A.K., Gent
Flowers, Helsingborg Museum, Sweden
Family Tree, Concept Photograph, New York
Chickenpox, Concept Photograph, New York
My Australia, National Gallery of Australia
1999
Hard to Acclimatize, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Dream of the Dragon, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
My Pigeons, Concept Photograph, New York
Sunshine Series, Concept Photograph, New York
Breathe Series, Concept Photograph, Miami
1998
Pilgrimage--Wind and Water in New York, Body Experiment, PS 1
Museum of Contemporary Art, Long Island City
1/2 Series, Concept Photograph, Beijing
Foam Series, Concept Photograph, Beijing
1997
Skin Series, Concept Photograph, Beijing
To Raise the Water Level in a Fish Pond, Beijing
3006/m3:65KG, Watari Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1996
Nine Holes, Beijing
To Add One Meter to an Anonymous Mountain, Beijing
Contact of the Third Kind, Second Concept and Experiment, Beijing
25mm Threading Steel, Complete One Hour Body Experiment, Beijing,
Contact of the Third Kind, First Concept and Experiment, Beijing
Concept and Participation in the Original Sound, 10 Artists Performing
Individually on a Common Theme in a Given Place, Dong Bian Men, Beijing
1994
65KG, One Hour Body Experiment in Beijing East Village, Private Studio
12m/2, One Hour Body Experiment in Beijing East Village, Public Toilet
1993
Angel, First Body Experiment, China National Art Gallery, Beijing, China
1992
Angel 1 and 2, Achievement of a Three Dimensional Work, Beijing
Memorial Series, Achievment of a Three Dimensional Work, Beijing