Zhang Xiao (b.1981, Yantai, China) currently lives and works in Chengdu. Zhang graduated from the Department of Architecture and Design at Yantai University in 2005. Before becoming a photography artist, he was a photojournalist for Chongqing Morning Post. Zhang’s work often reveals his unique understanding of today’s China and a sense of surrealism that precisely captures the absurdity in the country due to rampant economic changes, as well as his reflections on his homecoming and the experiences and presences that surrounded it.
Zhang received the Prix HSBC pour la Photographie in 2011 and the Second Hou Dengke Documentary Photography Award in 2009 with Coastline series. He also won the Three Shadows Photography Award in 2010 with the They series. In 2015, Zhang participated in “The World in 2015” at Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, China. His works have been exhibited extensively in photography festivals, including Photoquai at Musee du Quai Branly in Paris, France (2015) and Festival Pluie d’Images in France (2013). Zhang’s works are collected by the Burger Collection; Fidelity Corporate Art Collection in the USA; HSBC Foundation for Photography in France, and Three Shadows Photography Art Centre in China.
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| 1981 | Born in 1981 in Yantai city, Shandong province, China |
| 2005 | Graduated from the Department of Architecture and Design at Yantai |
| 2009 | Became a photographic artist |
| Second Hou Dengke Documentary Photography Award in 2009 | |
| 2010 | Three Shadows Photography Award in 2010 with They series. |
| The Photography Talent Award (France) in 2010 | |
| 20111 | 2011 Prix HSBC pour la Photographie in 2011 with Coastline series |
| Present | Lives and works in Chengdu city, Sichuan province, China |
| 2016 | “The Road Home”, Vermilion Art Gallery, Sydney, Australia |
| 2015 | “About My Hometown”, Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong |
| 2014 | “Coastline”, Zen Foto Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2013 | “Shanxi”, Pekin Fine Arts, Beijing, China |
| “They”, Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong | |
| 2012 | “Coastline”, 2902 Gallery, Singapore |
| “Coastline”, Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong |
| 2016 | ”Winter Discovery”, A thousand Plateaus Gallery, Chengdu, China |
| ”The 4th Chengdu Multi-dimensional View Photo Exhibition”, Fanmate Museum, Chengdu, China | |
| 2015 | “Nonfigurative”, 21st Century Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China |
| “Expanded Geographies”, Lianzhou International Photo Festival, Guangdong, China | |
| “Jimei X Arles : East West Encounters International Photo Featival”, Xiamen, China | |
| “Beijing calling”, Vermilion Art Gallery, Sydney, Australia | |
| “Photoquai 2015”, Quai Branly Museum, Paris, France | |
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“Grain to Pixel: A Storry of Photography in China”, Shanghai Center of Photography, Shanghai, China
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| “The World in 2015”, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China | |
| 2014 | “Contemporary Photography in China 2009-2014” , Minsheng Art Museum ,Shanghai, China |
| 2013 | “1st Beijing Photo Biennale”, China Millennium Monument, Beijing, China |
| “FotoArtFestival 2013”, Bielsko-Biała, Poland | |
| “The 3rd Chengdu Multi-dimensional View Photo Exhibition”, Fanmate Museum, Chengdu, China | |
| “Festival Pluie d’Images”, MJC Harteloire, Brest, France | |
| 2012 | “Tokyo Photo 2012”, Tokyo Midtown Hall, Tokyo, Japan |
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“Dragon Rises: Contemporary Chinese Photography”, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York, USA
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| 2011 |
“Suan Tian Ku La: 4 flavors, 4 photographers, 4 eyes on Chinese society”, Grand Theatre d’Angers, Angers, France
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| “FORMAT International Photography Festival – Right Here, Right Now”, QUAD Gallery, Derby, UK | |
| “Faces of Lifes”, Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China | |
| “Dali International Photo Festival”, Yunnan, China | |
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“Prix HSBC pour la Photographie 2011: Alinka ECHEVERRIA & Xiao ZHANG”, Galerie Le Réverbère, Lyon, France;
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Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Paris, France; L’Arsenal, Metz, France; Maison de la Photographie, Lille, France
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| 2010 | “Lianzhou International Photo Festival”, Guangdong, China |
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“2010 Screenage Art Document Exhibition – Natural–Unnatural”, Songzhuang Art Museum, Beijing, China
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| 2009 | “FORMAT International Photography Festival: Photocinema”, QUAD Gallery, Derby, UK |
| “Pingyao International Photography Festival”, Pingyao, Shanxi, China | |
| “Lianzhou International Photo Festival”, Guangdong, China |
| 2011 | The Prix HSBC Pour la Photographie, France |
| 2010 | MIO Photo Award, Japan 2010 – Jurors Award (Morimura Yasumasa), Japan |
| Three Shadows Photography Award, China | |
| The Photography Talent Award – Reportage/Documentary Award Winner, France | |
| Southern Documentary Photography Award, China. | |
| 2009 | Hou Dengke Documentary Photography Award, China |
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Contemporary Chinese Art
Expert Karen Smith in the UK
Leading Chinese photographer collector Jin Hongwei, HSBC etc.
