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Zhang Dali

Last Updated on 2020/10/31

Zhang Dali (张大力 b. 1963, Harbin, China)  is a Chinese artist, painter, and sculptor.

1963 Born in Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
1987 Graduated from National Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Beijing, China
Lives and works in Beijing and Bologna, Italy.

Zhang Dali Works

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Solo Exhibitions

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2018

Zhang Dali Solo Exhibition: Monumental Nature, Pékin Fine Arts, Beijing, China
AK-47 Di Zhang Dali, Art City, S. Giorgio in Poggiale, Bologna, Italy
Meta-morphosis, Palazzo Fava, Bologna, Italy

2017

Zhang Dali Solo Exhibition: Body and Soul, Beelden aan Zee, The Hague, The
Netherlands

2016

Permanence and Impermanence – New Works by Zhang Dali, Beijing Minsheng Art
Museum, Beijing, China

2015

Under the Sky, Pékin Fine Arts Gallery, Hong Kong, China
Zhang Dali – World’s Shadows, Ludwisburg Kunstverein, Ludwisburg. Germany
A Second History, MACBA – Museum of Contemporary Art, Buenos Aires, Argentina
A Second History, Red Brick Factory Art District, Guangzhou, China
A Second History, Photomonth, Krakow Poland
From Reality to Extreme Reality – The Road of Zhang Dali, United Museum, Wuhan,
China

2014

A Second History, Singapore ArtScience Museum, Singapore
Square, Klein-Sun Fine Arts Gallery, New York, USA
Square, K Space, Chengdu, China

2013

Zhang Dali—Second History, Museum of the Lu Xun Academy of Fine Art, Shenyang,
China
Zhang Dali – A Retrospective, Eli Klein Fine Arts, New York, USA

2012

Zhang Dali, Loft Gallery, Paris, France
AK-47, Stern Pissarro Gallery, London, UK
Zhang Dali Retrospective, Eli Klein Fine Art, New York, USA
Zhang Dali-Permanent Exhibition, Automne Galerie, Bruxelles, Belgium

2011

New Slogan, Eli Klein Fine Art Gallery, New York, USA
World’s Shadows, Pékin Fine Arts Gallery, Beijing China
Zhang Dali, Adrian David Gallerie, Knokke-Le Zoute, Belgium

2010

The Second History, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Zhang Dali – Solo Show, 18 Gallery, Shanghai, China
Zhang Dali – Extreme Reality, Tank Loft-Chongqing Contemporary Art Center,
Chongqing, China
Zhang Dali, Gallery Bodson-Emelinckx, Brussels, Belgium

2009

Pervasion, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
Il sogno proibito della nuova Cina, Plazzo Inghilteraa, Turin, Italy
The Second History, Space SZ Gallery, Beijing, China

2008

The Road to Freedom, Red Star Gallery, Beijing, China
Slogans, Kiang Gallery, Atlanta, USA

2007

Chinese Offspring, Chinese Contemporary Gallery, New York, USA

2006

Zhang Dali:A Second History, Walsh Gallery, Chicago, USA

2005

Sublimation, Beijing Commune Gallery, Beijing, China

2004

New Works by Zhang Dali, Chinese Contemporary Gallery, London, UK

2003

AK-47, Galleria Gariboldi, Milan, Italy
AK-47, Galleria Il Traghetto, Venice, Italy

2002

Headlines, Chinese Contemporary Gallery, London, UK
Beijing’s Face, Base Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2000

AK-47, The Courtyard Gallery, Beijing, China

1999

Dialogue and Demolition, The Courtyard Gallery, Beijing, China
Dialogue, Chinese Contemporary Gallery, London, UK

1994

Rivoluzione e Violenza, Galleria Studio 5, Bologna, Italy

1993

Zhang Dali: Pitture a Inchiostro, Galleria Studio 5, Bologna, Italy

1989

Ink Wash Painting Exhibition by Zhang Dali, Gallery of the National Academy of Fine
Arts, Beijing, China

Selected Group Exhibitions

2018

Nord Art 2018, Kunswerk Carlshuerre, Buedelsdorf, Germany
The Fuck Off Generation: Chinese Art In The Post-Mao Era, Ethan Cohen Gallery,
New York, USA
Art From The Streets, Art Science Museum, Singapore

2017

Anren Biennle, Sichuan Anren, China
Street Generations(s) 40 Years of Urban Art, La Condition Publique, Lille, France
Working on History. Chinese Photography and the Cultural Revolution, State
Museum, Berlin, Germany

2016

Audacious – Contemporary Artists Speak Out, Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA
Utopias Heterotopias, Wuzhen Silk Factory, Wuzhen, China
Subjective Reality, She Shan MOCA, Shanghai, China
An Exhibition About Exhibitions – Displaying Contemporary Art in the 1990’s, OCAT
Institute, Beijing, China
Street Art – A Global View, Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) Art Museum,
Beijing, China
Busan Biennale, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, South Korea
Vile Bodies, White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Enduring Magnetism, 1 x 3 Gallery, Beijing, China
Historicode – Scarcity and Supply, The 3rd Nanjing International Art Festival, Nanjing, China
Chinascape: From Rural to Urban, Spazio Borgogno, Milan, Italy

2015

Community Implant Plan, Chengdu Jinjiang Museum, Chengdu, China
Sudden Change of Idea – Chinese and German Conceptual Art Comparative
Research Exhibition, United Museum, Wuhan, China
The Persistence of Images, Red Brick Factory Art District, Guangzhou, China

ART PARK, Art Beijing, Agricultural Exhibition Center of China, Beijing, China
Photo Month, Muzeum Sztuki i Techniki Japonskiej, Krakow, Poland
De/Constructing China, Asia Society, New York, USA
We Are Together, Taikoo Square, Chengdu, China
The Civil Power, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum,Beijing,China
Grain to Pixel – A Story of Photography in China, Shanghai Center of Photography,
Shanghai, China
Paradise Bitch, White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Chinese Photography – Twentieth Century And Beyond ,Three Shadows
Photography Art Centre,Beijing, China
A New Dynasty – Created in China, Denmark Aros Art Museum, ARhus, Denmark
Agitprop!, Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA

2014

Photography in the Post Media Era: Lianzhou International Photo Festival, Lianzhou, Guangdong Province, China
West Says East Says – Chinese Contemporary Art Research Exhibition, United Art
Museum, Wuhan, China
Phnom Penh Photo Festival, Cambodia
Chinese Contemporary Photography, Mingsheng Art Museum, Shanghai
Aftermath, 21c Museum, Louisville, Kentucky USA
De Heus-Zomers Collection of Chinese Contemporary Art, Museum Boijmans Van
Beuningen, Rotterdam, Holland

2013

Individual Growth-Momentum of Contemporary Art, Tianjin Art Museum, Tianjin,
China
Voice of the Unseen, Collateral Event at the 55th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Aura and Post Aura, The First Beijing International Photography Biennale, Millennium
Museum, Beijing, China
Hot Pot: A Taste of Contemporary Chinese Art, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center,
Brattleboro, USA
Incarnations, Institute Confucius des Pais de la Loire, Angers, France
Fuck Off 2, Groninger Museum, Groningen, Holland
Re-Ink, Invitational Exhibition, Hubei Museum of Art,Wuhan,China
The Nature of Things, Magda Gallery, Shanghai, China
Chinese Photography, Galerie Paris-Beijing, Brussels, Belgium
One Square Meter – Situation, Linda Gallery, Beijing, China
World’s Shadows, Photo Phnom Penh 2013, Royal University of Phnom Penh,
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Spectacle Reconstruction, Budapest Art Museum, Budapest, Hungary

2012

Raze, Pékin Fine Arts, Beijing, China
Faking It – Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop, Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York, USA
The Unseen, 4th Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou, China
Body Double: The Figure in Contemporary Sculpture, The Meijer Gardens and
Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, USA
Omen-2012, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai China

2011

The Evolving Art, Art Museum of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Guan Xi, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Speech Matters, 54th Biennale of Venice, Denmark Pavilion, Venice, Italy
Photo Spring, Caochangdi – Arles in Beijing, Beijing, China
Self – Camera: Repositioning Modern-Self, Changwon Asian Art Festival, Changwon,
Korea
Image History Existence —Taikang Life 15th Anniversary Art collection Exhibition,
National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
The Life and Death of Buildings, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton NJ,
USA
New Photography 2011, MoMA, New York, USA
Guanxi, Today Museum, Beijing China
Start from the Horizon-China Contemporary Sculpture Since 1978, Si Shang Art
Museum, Beijing, China

2010

Reshaping History, CNCC, Beijing, China
Re-Visioning History, OV Gallery, Shanghai, China
From New York to Beijing: Graffiti-Blogging in the Street Blade & Zhang Dali, CSpace,
Beijing, China
41st edition of the Rencontres d’Arles, Espace Van Gogh, Arles, France
Ame de Chine, Magda Danysz Gallery, Paris, France
Exhibition Exhibition, Castello di Rivoli Museo di Arte Contemporanea Torino Italy
The Original Copy:Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today The Museum of
Modern Art, (MoMA) New York, USA
Great Performances, Pace Beijing Gallery, Beijing China
Dimensionality, Red Star Gallery, Beijing, China
Four Dimensions, Hong Kong Photo Festival 2010, Hong Kong, China
Is The World Real ? The 6th Lianzhou International Photo Festival, Lianzhou, China

2009

Stairway to Heaven: From Chinese Streets to Monuments and Skyscrapers, Art
Center, Kansas City, USA
Re-imaging Asia, The New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK
The Very Condition, Wall Art Museum, Beijing, China
Images from History, Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
Transforming Traditions, Victoria H. Myhren Gallery, University of Denver, Denver,
USA
Collision, Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum, (CAFA), Beijing, China
From Style Writing to Art – Street Art Group Show, 18 Gallery, Shanghai, China

2008

Re-Imagining Asia, House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany
Go China!—Writing on the Wall, Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands
China Gold, Musee Maillol, Paris, France
Logan Collection, San Francisco SFMOMA, San Francisco, USA
Exquisite Corpse: China Surreal, m97 Gallery, Shanghai, China
Guang Hua Road, Michael Schultz Gallery, Beijing, China
Christian Dior & Chinese Artists, Ullens Center of Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing,
China
The Revolution Continues: New Art from China, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Slogan, Eli Klein Fine Art, New York, USA

2007

Past Forward, Oriental Vista Art Collections, Shanghai, China
La Cina é vicina, Mediterranea Gallery, Palermo, Italy
Three Unitary, ddm warehouse, Shanghai, China
Red Hot, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
China Now, CoBrA Museum of Modern Art, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Unexpected – Out of Control, Ku Art Center, Beijing, China
All Our Tomorrows: The Culture of Camouflage, Kunstraum der Universität,
Lüneburg, Germany
China Now-Lost in Transition, Eli Klein Fine Art, New York, USA

2006

Great Performance, Max Protetch, New York, USA
Red Star, Red Star Gallery, 798 Factory, Beijing, China
Gwangju Biennnale 6th Edition – Fever Variations, Gwangju, South Korea
China Now – Museum Sammlung Essl , Klosterneuburg, Vienna, Austria

2005

Chinese Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition, Museum Beelden aan Zee, The
Netherlands
The Game of Realism, Beijing Commune Gallery, Beijing, China
Mayfly, Beijing Commune Gallery, Beijing, China
Wall, Millennium Museum, Beijing, China
New Photography and Video from China, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK

2004

Me! Me! Me!,The Courtyard Gallery, Beijing, China
Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, International
Center of Photography (ICP), New York, USA
Critical Mass, Chinese Contemporary Gallery, Beijing, China

2003

Festival Internazionale di Roma, L’Officina-Arte del Borghetto, Rome, Italy
China-Germany Art, Factory 798, Beijing, China
The Logan Collection, Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA

2002

International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China
The First Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
New Photography from China, The Courtyard Gallery, Beijing, China

2001

Hot Pot, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway
Contemporary Chinese Photography, Finland Museum of Photography, Helsinki,
Finland
Contemporary Chinese Photography, Oulu Art Museum, Oulu, Finland
China Art Now, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Courtyard Gallery August Group Show, The Courtyard Gallery, Beijing, China

2000

Serendipity, The Japan Foundation Asia Center, Tokyo, Japan
Food as Art, Club Vogue, Beijing, China
Artistes Contemporains Chinois, Musee des Tapisseries, Aix-en-Provence, France
Thought Brand Meat Mincer, Performance Dongsi 8 Tiao, Beijing, China
Fuck Off, Eastlink Gallery, Shanghai, China

1999

Chinese Contemporary Photography, Bard College, New York, USA
Unveiled Reality- Chinese Contemporary Photography, Chulalongkom University
Museum, Bangkok, Thailand
The World Is Yours! Design Museum, performance, Beijing, China
Hsin: A Visible Spirit, Cypress College, California, USA
Beijing in London, ICA, London, UK
Food for Thought, Eindhoven, Holland
Transparence Opacité?, Aix en Provence, France and Aosta, Italy

1998

Urbanity, Wang Shou Temple Art Museum, Beijing, China
11th Tallinn Triennial, Tallinn, Estonia
Chinese Contemporary Photography, Lehman College, New York, USA
Chinese Artists Group Show, Chinese Contemporary Gallery, London, UK

1997

W ²+ Z ²- Multi-Media and Video Exhibition, Gallery of the National Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China

1995

La Formazione della Terra, Goethe Institute Gallery, Torino, Italy

1993

Zona Internazionale, Neon Gallery, Bologna, Italy
Arte Deperibile, Spazio Cultura Navile, Bologna, Italy

1992

Collettiva di artisti cinesi, Il Sigillo Gallery, Padova, Italy

1991

Pittura su Carta, Galleria Comunale, Ferrara, Italy

1989

Ink Wash Painting Salon in Peking, Capital Museum (Confucius Temple), Beijing,
China

1987

Three Men Show, Sun Yat-sen Park, Beijing, China
Collections:
Asia Society, New York, NY, USA
AW Asia Foundation, New York, NY, USA
Beelden aan Zee, The Hague, Holland
British Museum, London, UK
Brooklyn Museum, NY, USA
Chaney Family Collection, Houston, TX
De Heus-Zomer, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, USA
FAIF Collection, Zurich, Switzerland
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou, China
Harvard University Art Museum, Cambridge, MA, USA
He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
International Center of Photography, New York, NY, USA
Kent and Vicky Logan Collection, Denver, CO
Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA
MoMA, New York, USA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC, USA
Rothschild Collection, Paris, France
Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Smart Museum, University Chicago, IL, USA
Smith College Museum of Art, North Hampton, MA
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
United Museum, Wuhan, China
White Rabbit Art Gallery, Sydney, Australia
21c Museum, Louisville, KY, USA

Photos courtesy of Pékin Fine Arts

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