1958

Born in Kunming, China

1982

Graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts

Known as a symbolist-surrealist and a member of the Avant Garde movement, worldwide art historians noted that Zhang was influenced by Picasso and Dali.  He now works and lives in Beijing

1982

Participated in the BBC World Painting Contest held in the UK

1985

Participated in three group exhibitions held in Beijing (Youth on the Advance), Shanghai and Nanjing (Exhibition of Neo-realistic paintings), and in Florida, U.S.A. (Mirage of China)

1987

Participated in the group exhibition Four Chinese Painters held in Montpellier, France

1989

First solo exhibition at the Gallery of Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, Chongqing.

Participated in the China Avant Garde exhibition at the National Art Gallery, Beijing

1991

Participated in the exhibition I Don’t Want To Play Cards With Cezanne: Exhibition of Chinese Avant Garde Paintings From the 1980s, held in the Asia and Pacific Art Museum, California, U.S.A.

1992

Participated in Documents of China Contemporary Art Show, a traveling exhibition in Beijing, Guangzhou, Chongqing, Shenyang, Shanghai and Nanjing

1993

His paintings are shown in Mao Goes Pop, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia

1994

Participated in the 22^nd International Biennial of Sao Paulo, Brazil

1995

Participated in the 46^th Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy

1996

Participated in a group exhibition at the Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany

Participated in a group exhibition at the Asian-Pacific Triennial, Australia

1997

Solo exhibition at the Gallery of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing

Group exhibition at the Prague Art Museum in the Czech Republic

Group exhibition at the Modern Art Museum, Singapore

1998

Group exhibition at the Helsinki Art Museum, Finland

2000

Participated in the Kwangju Biennale 2000 in Korea

Participated in the Hundred Years of Chinese Oil Painting exhibition at the China National Art Gallery,Beijing

2001

Participated in the group exhibition at the Artist Centre, Oslo, Norway

2002

Participated in the Babel 2002 exhibition at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul, Korea

Award

Bronze Prize at the 22^nd Sao Paulo Biennial Exhibition in Brazil in 1994

Document Prize at the First Academic Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art at the China National Museum of Fine Arts and the Hong Kong Art Centre in 1996

Collection

Works collected by the Guggenheim Museum, U.S.A.

Asian - Pacific Art Museum, U.S.A.

Logan Collection – San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, U.S.A.

Fukuoka Art Gallery, Japan

Okinawa Museum of Art, Japan

Queensland Art Gallery, Australia

National Gallery of Art, Australia

Upriver Gallery, Chengdu, China

Dongyu Museum of Fine Arts, Shenyang, China

Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China

National Museum of Modern Art, Luxembourg

Gasworks Art Foundation, England

Coutt’s Art Foundation, United Kingdom

Peter Stuyvesant Art Foundation, Amsterdam, Holland

Picardi National Museum, Amiens, France

Private collection of film director Oliver Stone, U.S.A.