1965
Geboren in An Yang City, He An Provinz, China

1988
BA, He Nan University, Kai Feng, China

1993
MA, Central Academy of fine Arts, Peking, China

Lebt und arbeitet in Shanghai und New York

2015
Zhang Huan: Let There Be Light, Pace Gallery, New York, USA
Zhang Huan: Sydney Buddha, Carriageworks, Sydney, Australien
As Director and Set Designer, Semele, Opera, BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music), New York, USA
Zhang Huan: My Temple, Art Project Salzburg, Krauthuegel, Salzburg, Österreich

2014
Zhang Huan: Evoking Tradition, Storm King Art Center, New York, USA
Zhang Huan: Spring Poppy Fields, Pace Gallery, London, UK
Zhang Huan, Pace Chesa Büsin, Zuoz, Schweiz

2013
Zhang Huan: Poppy Fields, Pace Gallery, New York, USA
Looking East, Facing West: The World of Zhang Huan, Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Michigan, USA
Zhang Huan: Soul and Matter, Palazzo Vecchio and Forte di Belvedere, Florenz, Italien

2012
Zhang Huan: Ash Paintings and Memory Doors, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Kanada
As Director and Set Designer, Semele, Opera, Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, Toronto, Kanada
Zhang Huan: The Mountain is Still a Mountain, White Cube, London, UK
Zhang Huan: Jin Hui Dui, Gallery 100, Taipei, Taiwan 

2011
Zhang Huan: Q Confucius, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Zhang Huan: 49 Days, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, USA
Zhang Huan: East Wind, West Wind, Espace Louis Vuittion Macao, Macao
Zhang Huan: Aura of Disappearance, Edouard Malinque Gallery, in Kooperation mit The Pace Gallery, Hong Kong
Zhang Huan: Ash Banquet, ProjectB Gallery, Mailand, Italien

2010
Zhang Huan: Dawn of Time, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Zhang Huan: Amituofo, Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
Zhang Huan: Ashman, PAC Museum, Mailand, Italien
Zhang Huan: Free Tiger Returns to Mountains, Pace Beijing, Peking, China
Zhang Huan: Hope Tunnel, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Peking, China
As Director and Set Designer, Semele, Opera, Poly Theatre, Peking, China
Zhang Huan: Out of the Ash, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2009
Zhang Huan: Memory Doors, Haunch of Venison, Zürich, Schweiz
Zhang Huan, Rebirth, ProjectB, Contemporary Art, Mailand, Italien
Zhang Huan, Zhu Gangqiang, White Cube, London, UK
Neither Coming Nor Going, PaceWildenstein, New York, USA
As Director and Set Designer, Semele, Opera, Theatre Royal de La Monnaie | de Munt, Brüssel, Belgien

2008
Zhang Huan: Blessings, PaceWildenstein, New York
Zhang Huan: Altered States, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
Zhang Huan, Paintings and Sculptures, Diehl + Gallery One, Moskau, Russland
Zhang Huan, Works from the Collection Caspar H. Schubbe, DSV Group, Stuttgart

2007
Zhang Huan: Altered States, Asia Society, New York
Haunch of Venison, London
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, Kopenhagen

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, Neuseeland
Cotthem Gallery, Belgien
Cotthem Gallery, Barcelona

1999
Works From 1994-1998, Max Protetch Gallery, New York
Performance on Video, Artspace, Sydney
Performance, Artspace, Auckland, Neuseeland

1988
He Nan University, Kai Feng

2017
Luther and the Avantgarde, Wittenberg Old Prison, Wittenberg, Deutschland

2016
Bentu: A Selection of Chinese Artists in A Time of Turbulence and Transformation, The Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
Takashi Murakami’s Superflat Collection, Yokohama Art Museum, Yokohama, Japan
M+ Sigg Collection: Four Decades of Chinese Contemporary Art, ArtisTree, Hong Kong, China
Busan Biennale 2016, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, Südkorea
OCD: A Collection of One’s Own, Castile-Leon Museum of Contemporary Art, Leon, Spanien
Contemporary China, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australien
Force of Stillness: Embodying Meditation in Creative Practice, Rubin Museum of Art, New York, USA
Envisions: Sculptures @ the Garden City, Clifford Square, Singapur

2015
Contemporary Chinese Photography, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, USA
Go East: The Gene & Brian Sherman Contemporary Asian Collection, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australien
The Wondrous All: Leading Edge of Eastern Thought, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Myth/History II: Shanghai Galaxy, YUZ Museum Shanghai, Shanghai, China
CHINA 8-Contemporary Art from China on the Rhine and Ruhr, Duisburg, Deutschland
2015 Biennale China-Italia, Mastiodellacittadella, Turin, Italien
28 Chinese, Rubell Family Collection, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, USA
15 Rooms, Long Museum, Shanghai, China
Shanghai Urban Space Art Season, Art West Bund, Shanghai, China
Conceal/Reveal: Making Meaning in Chinese Art, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA
The Magic Power of Characters-3000 Years of Chinese Calligraphy, Museum Rietberg, Zürich, Schweiz

2014
Art Lovers, from Pinault Collection, Grimaldi Forum Monaco, Monaco
Utopian Days-Freedom, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Südkorea
Myth/History: YUZ Collection of Contemporary Art, YUZ Museum Shanghai, Shanghai, China
A History, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Frankreich
Collection De Heus-Zomer: Chinese Art, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Niederlande
Where is China? Museum of the Orient, Lisbon, Portugal; World Art Museum, China Millennium Monument, Peking, China
Secret Signs, Calligraphy in Chinese Contemporary Art, in Kooperation mit Sigg Collection and the M+, Hong Kong, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Deutschland
Typology, Taxonomy and Seriality: Photography from the Walther Collection, Espace Van Gogh, Arles, Frankreich
Special Project for the 20th Anniversary of Gwangju Biennale: Sweet Dew-Since 1980, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, Südkorea

2013
Disaster, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, Frankreich
Through the Eyes of Texas: Masterworks from Alumni Collections, Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas, Texas, USA
The Collectors’ Show: Weight of History, Singapore Art Museum, Singapur
China, China, Pinchuk Art Center, Kiew, Ukraine
Culture. Mind. Becoming, Collateral Event of Chinese Art at the 55th Venice Art Biennale 2013, Palazzo Mora, Venedig, Italien
The Red Queen, The Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Australien
Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Portrait of The Times: 30 Years of Chinese Contemporary Art, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
28 Chinese, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA
Three Perfections, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australien
BhAsia: Asia Occupies the City, Liberty Square, Belo Horizonte, Brasilien

2012
Superbodies, 2012 Hasselt, Hasselt, Belgien
Swept Away: Dust, Ashes and Dirt in Contemporary Art and Design, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA
Transforming Minds: Buddhism in Art, Asia Society Hong Kong Center, Hong Kong
Face, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Visible/Invisible, Italy Pavilion, Shanghai, China
Sculpture at Pilane 2012, Tjorn, Schweden
Art Festival Watou 2012, Watou, Belgien
Omen2012-Chinese New Art, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Electric Fields-Surrealism and Beyond, The Collection from Centre Pompidou, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China 

2011
Skin, The Foundation of Claude Verdan, Museum of Science and Art, Lausanne, Schweiz
About Identity, Art Stations Foundation by Grazyna Kulczyk, Poznan, Poland
The World Belongs to You, Palazzo Grassi, Francois Pinault Foundation, Venedig, Italien
Living, The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
Glasstress 2011, Venedig, Italien
Big Brother, Artists Facing Tyrants, Palais des Arts, Dinard, Frankreich
2011 Haein Art Project, Haeinsa, Hapcheon, Korea
Buddha’s Trace-Contemporary Art from Asia, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bochum, Deutschland

2010
Hope! The city of Dinard, Dinard, Frankreich
Art for The World, The Sculpture Project of The Expo Boulevard, World Expo 2010, Shanghai, China
Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance, The Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Arts and Cities, Aichi Triennale 2010, Aichi, Japan
The Silk Road, From Saatchi Gallery, Tri Postal, Lille, Frankreich
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, Peking, China
The Naked Face: Self Portrait, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australien
Rehearsal, 2010 Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China 

2009
The Buhl Collection: Speaking with Hands, Daelim Contemporary Art Museum, Südkorea
Action-Camera: Beijing Performance Photography, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Kanada
Steel Life, La Triennale di Milano, Mailand, Italien
Yi Pai-Century Thinking, Today Art Museum, Peking, China
The Social Critique 1993-2005, Kalmar Konstmuseum, Kalmar, Schweden
Re_View: 170 Years of Photography, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australien
Beg Borrow and Steal, The Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA
100 Years, A Draft of a History, PS1 Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA 

2008
Body Language: Chinese Photography, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australien
Half-Life of a Dream: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Collection of Kent and Vicki Logan, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
Person of the Crowd, Neuberger Museum of Art, New York, USA
Avant-garde China, Twenty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art, The National Art Center, Toko, Japan
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, Mailand, Italien
Origins, Hudson Valley Center, New York, USA
Encounters, Pace Beijing, Peking, China
Christian Dior & Chinese Artists, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Peking, China
Meat After Meat Joy, Daneyal Mahmood Gallery, New York, USA
Meat After Meat Joy, Pierre Menard Gallery, Cambridge, USA 

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, Center Museum of Contemporary Art, Spanien
Made in China, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Kopenhagen, Dänemark
Water, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Timer.01, Intimacy, Triennale Bovisa 2007, Mailand, Italien
Voiceless: I feel therefore I am, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, Australien
Red Hot: Asian Art Today from the Chaney Family Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
The Quiet Gesture, Recent Chinese Art, The Newark Museum, Newark, USA
Contemporary Combustion: Chinese Artists in America, The New Britian Museum of American Art, New Britian, USA
An Instinctive Eye: A Selection of Contemporary Photographs from the Sir Elton John Collection, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiew, Ukraine
Grey Water, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australien
All for Art! Great Collections Among Us, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Quebec, Kanada
Photographies, New Acquisition 2003-2007, Center Pompidou, Paris, Frankreich
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

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, Belgien
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, Luzern

2002
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum, New York Skin Talks, Musee de la Civilisation, Québec,
China Contemporary Art Exhibition--Red Continent, Gwangju Art Museum, Korea
Paisajes del Cuerpo, Sala Zapateria 40, Pamplona, Spanien
La Mirada Ajena, Artium, Vitoria, Spanien

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, Schweden und Dänemark

1999
The Century of the Body: Photoworks 1900-2000, Culturgest, Lisbon, and Musee de LElysee, Lausanne, Frankreich
Five Continents and a City: Second International Salon of Painting, Museum of Mexico City, Mexico City
Art-Worlds in Dialogue, Museum Ludwig, Köln
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, Neuseeland
La Biennale di Venezia, Venedig
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, Tokio, Japan

1996
China Art Festival, München

2005
My Rome, Capitoline Museums, Rom
Untitled, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern
Untitled, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA

2004
My Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney

2003
Fifty Stars, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
Buddhist Relics, DiverseWorks Artspace, Houston
18 Years Old, Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Kopenhagen
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), Schweden
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, Peking
Foam Series, Concept Photograph, Peking

1997
Skin Series, Concept Photograph, Peking
To Raise the Water Level in a Fish Pond, Peking
3006/m3:65KG, Watari Museum, Tokio, Japan

1996
Nine Holes, Beijing
To Add One Meter to an Anonymous Mountain, Beijing
Contact of the Third Kind, Second Concept and Experiment, Peking
25mm Threading Steel, Complete One Hour Body Experiment, Peking,
Contact of the Third Kind, First Concept and Experiment, Peking
Concept and Participation in the Original Sound, 10 Artists Performing
Individually on a Common Theme in a Given Place, Dong Bian Men, Peking

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,Peking

1992
Angel 1 and 2, Achievement of a Three Dimensional Work, Peking
Memorial Series, Achievment of a Three Dimensional Work, Peking