GANG ZHAO
Born in Peking, China, 1961
Lives and works in Beijing, China and New York, NY
Education
1983–1984 State Academy of Fine Art, Maastricht, Holland, 1983–1984
1984–1987 Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
1996–1998 MFA, Bard College, Annandale on Hudson, NY
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2019 Passage to Dynasty, Greene Naftali, New York, New York
Zhao Gang: History Painting, Pérez Art Museum, Miami, Florida
Diluted Retrospective, Each Modern, Taipei, Taiwan
2017 Zhao Gang Solo Exhibition, Tang Contemporary Art, Hong Kong, China
Useless Things – Zhao Gang New Works, Aye Gallery, Beijing, China
2016 Gang Zhao, Tilton Gallery, New York, New York
The Road to Serfdom II, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago, Chile
Contemporary Chinese Painting, Galerie Nagel Draxler, Cologne, Germany
Zhao Gang, Dingyun Art Salon, Wuhan, China
2015 The Collection of Lust Empire, Aura Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Cocksucker Blues, BANK, Shanghai, China
Paramour’s Garden, Suzhou Museum, Suzhou, China
Zhao Gang: The Road to Serfdom, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2014 Emperor and His…, AYE Gallery, Beijing, China
2013 The Khitans: Zhao Gang, Platform China, Beijing, China
Another Reality, Gallery LIN, Taipei, Taiwan
2012 Zhao Gang, Wada Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan
2011 Sisyphus, Aura Gallery, Beijing, China
Sick Man, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
Burning the Wood: The Collection of Du Yuesheng, AYE Gallery, Beijing, China
2010 Gang Zhao, Galerie Christian Nagel, Berlin, Germany
2009 Dance in Dream, Triumph Art Space, Beijing, China
2008 Painting of Zhao Gang, Hong Kong Art Center / Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong
Gang Zhao, TSI Yi Space Gallery, Beijing, China
2007 Gang Zhao, Tilton Gallery, New York, New York
After Thought, Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne, Germany
Gang Zhao, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong
Portrait Landscape Memory, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
2006 Broken Narrative, Galerie Bleich-Rossi, Vienna, Austria
2005 Want Sex, Beijing Art Now Gallery, Beijing, China
The War Game, Galerie Christian Nagel, Berlin, Germany
2004 Irony of Mistranslation, Michael Goedhuis, New York, New York
2002 Gallery 4A, Sydney, Australia
1999 Constructed Dreams, Courtyard Gallery, Beijing, China
1994 Peg Alston Fine Arts, New York, New York
1992 Vorpal Gallery, New York, New York
1991 The Unpainted Landscapes, Gutharc Balin Gallery, Paris, France
1990 Vorpal Gallery, New York, New York
1989 Via Del Moro 25/b, Rome, Italy
1987 Lavaggi Gallery, New York, New York
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018 Painting: Now and Forever, Part III, Greene Naftali, New York, New York
Turning Point – 40 Years of Chinese Contemporary Art, Long Museum (West Bund), Shanghai, China
2017 Art in China after 1989: Theater of the World, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Marching in Circles, Long March Space, Beijing, China
Gui Yang, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2015 The Civil Power: Beijing Minsheng Art Museum Opening Exhibition, Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing,
China
Big Painting Exhibition, Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing, China
2014 About Painting, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Xi’an, China
The Unofficials: Art before 85, Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing, China
Early—Wang Xingwei, Wang Yin, Zhang Enli, Zhao Gang, Zhou Tiehai, Platform China Contemporary Art
Institute, Beijing, China
2013 Paint(erly), BANK, Shanghai, China
Life Drawing Project, Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing, China
Jungle II—A Thriving Morphology: Theory Of Relativity, Platform China Contemporary Art Institute,
Beijing, China
2012 Pinellia, Aura Gallery, Beijing, China
2010 Demolition Milk II, Kunst Im Tunnel, Düsseldorf, Germany
2009 Embrace Suzhou—Exhibition of the Chinese Contemporary Arts, Suzhou Museum, Suzhou, China
Guangzhou Triennale, Guangzhou, China
Yokohoma Triennale, Yokohoma, Japan
2008 Global EurAsia, Art Cologne, Sonderausstellung, Cologne, Germany
Delirious Beijing, PKM Gallery, Beijing, China
Chinese Apartment Art: 1970s-1990s, Shuimu Art Space, Beijing, China
2007 Harlem School of New Social Realism, PERFORMA, New York, NY
Yi School: Thirty Years of ‘Abstract Art’ Preview in Beijing, Wall Art Museum, Beijing, China
Origin Point: ‘Star Group’ Retrospective Exhibition, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
A Point in the Red, Kashya Hilderbrand Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
2006 Jiang Hu: 34 Contemporary Chinese Artists, Tilton Gallery, New York; traveled to Roberts & Tilton,
Los Angeles, California; curated by Huang Zhuan
The Face of Contemporary Art in China, Virginia Beach Contemporary Museum of Art, Virginia Beach;
traveled to the Federal Reserve, Washington, D.C.
2005 Contemporary Erotic Drawings, Diverse Works, Houston, Texas; traveled to the Aldrich Contemporary Art
Museum, Ridgefield, CT
David Diao and Gang Zhao, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong
2004 Sunrise Sunset, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY; curated by Kuratiert von Amanda Church and Courtney
Cox Silknet, Galerie Urs Meile, Luzern, Switzerland
2003 David Diao and Gang Zhao: at Mid Career, Asian American Arts Centre, New York, NY
Chambers Fine Art, New York, NY
2002 Jessica Murray Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2001 Central Academy Gallery of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
Wei Liu and Gang Zhao, Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2000 Xing Xing Group Show, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1998 Salon 300, Williamsburg, NY
David Lowe and Gang Zhao, Peng Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1990 The Door, P.S. 1, Institute of the Arts, Long Island City, NY
Blum Helman Gallery, New York, NY
1989 The Stars:10 Years, Festival d´Automne de Paris, Paris, France
1987 SUNY Albany Art Gallery, Albany, NY
1986 Beijing/New York: Avant-Garde Chinese Art, Sharon Creative Arts Foundation, Sharon, Connecticut;
traveled to Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY; City Gallery, New York, NY
1980 Xing Xing (The Stars), China Art Gallery, Peking, China
1979 Xing Xing (The Stars), Beihai Park, Peking, China
Bibliography
Neuendorf, Henri. “Gallery Hopping: Gang Zhao at Tilton Gallery.” Artnet news, October 6, 2016. https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/gallery-hopping-gang-zhao-675239
Astorga, Daniele Sliva, “El arte contracorriente de Zhao Gang llega a Chile,” El Mercurio March 19, 2016, Cultura 17.
"The Road to Serfdom II," Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago, Chile, 2016 (catalogue).
"GANG," Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China, 2015.
"Paramour’s Garden," Suzhou Museum, Suzhou, China, 2015.
"The Khitans," Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing, China, 2015.
Zhang Hongtu and Zhao Gang, “25 Years after the Tiananmen Crackdown,” Creative Time Reports, June 2, 2014. http://creativetimereports.org/2014/06/02/25-years-after-the-tiananmen-crackdown/
"Emperor and His…," AYE Gallery, Beijing, China, 2014.
"Another Reality," Lin and Lin Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan, 2013 (catalogue).
"Zhao Gang: Sick Man," DISTANZ VERLAG, Berlin, Germany, 2012.
"Zhao Gang: Dance in Dream," Triumph Art Space, Beijing, China, 2009 (catalogue).
"Gang Zhao: After Thoughts," Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne, 2007.
"Gang Zhao: Broken Narrative," Galerie Bleich-Rossi, 2005
"Gang Zhao’s Most Recent Works, 2006: Portrait. Landscape. Memory," He Xiang Ning Art Museum, Shenzhen, 2006.
"Gang Zhao: War Game," Galerie Christian Nagel, Berlin, 2005.
"David Diao and Zhao Gang," Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, 2005 (catalogue).
"Zhao Gang: Want Sex," Beijing Art Now Gallery, 2005.
Raynor, Vivien, “The Avant-Garde From China in Show,” The New York Times, August 22, 1986, p. C19.
Meishu Yuekan (Art Monthly), December, 1980.