Background
Zhang was born in the city of Jilin in China"s Jilin province in 1953. She came of age during the 1960s and 1970s political upheavals known as the Cultural Revolution, which exerted a certain influence on her early painting.
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Education
In 1979, she graduated from the China Academy of Arts in the city of Hangzhou in Zhejiang province, then started her career as an art editor of Shandong Pictural and a painted traditional Chinese painting.
Career
Like Wang Guangyi, Xu Beihong and Wu Guanzhong, Zhang Xiaogang is becoming to the best-selling contemporary Chinese artists and is a favorite of European collectors. He is represented in Beijing and Paris, Boston, New York and Blossom Art Collection in Los Los Angeles Western painters including Picasso and Dali are influences.
Zhang said: "I read in a book once a few words by British experimental artist Eduardo Paolozzi, which were very influential for me: "a person can very easily have the right idea, but choose the wrong means to express lieutenant
Or he can have the right means, but lack a clear idea."" Solo 2005 – Los Los Angeles Web Culture Center, California 2005- America Asia Exhibition Center, San Francisco California 2005 – Los Angeles Art Connection Holly Wood, California 2003 – ASSUNTA FOX Gallery Santa Ana, California 2003 – SANDSTONE Gallery Laguna Beach, California 2002 – Flight of Dreams, Lao Dong Fang Gallery, Alhambra, California 2001 - Flight of Dreams (After the Trip to West), Shangdong Press Center, China 2000 - Flower’s World, Oriental Gallery, New York 2000 - Flower’s World, Boston, Massachusetts & Los Angeles, California 1998 - Galerie Cathay, Paris 1994 - Dialogue between flowers & Souls, Yiyuan Gallery International, Beijing 1993 - Dialogue between flowers & Souls, Shangdong Art Museum, China Group 1999 - Chinese & Korean Art Exposition, Shandong Art Museum, China. 1998 - Art Exposition for the Centenary, Beijing University, Beijing 1997 - Chinese and French Art Exposition, Shandong Art Museum, China 1997 - Chinese Women Artists’ Exposition, Hong Kong 1995 - Nanjing Art Museum, China 1990 - The 2nd National Sports Art Exposition, China Art Gallery, Beijing 1979 - Zhejiang Exhibition Hall, Hangzhou, China 1974 - Chinese Painting Exposition, Tokyo.
Achievements
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1998 - Winner, World Chinese Calligraphy and Painting Competition, China Art Gallery, Beijing 1997 - Winner, Australian Prix Competition of Wengzhenru Cup, Sidney 1997 - Honored Artist, the 1st National Exposition of Elaborate Works of Chinese Painting, China Art Gallery, Beijing 1988 - Winner, Grant Prix Award of Chinese Paintings, Hong Kong.
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She has made a Dream of Flight series of paintings, which are often monochromatic, stylized souls of abstract flora, usually with cracked subjects, high contrast colors, to express her understanding of abstract romanticism dream world.
