Zhang Huan: In the Ashes of History, The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia, September 9–November 8, 2020. Zhang Huan: Living towards Nothingness, Pace Gallery, 68 Park Place, East Hampton, New York, September 2–19, 2021. Zhang Huan: Hermitage Buddha, The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia, September 9, 2020–April 4, 2021. Zhang Huan’s First-ever NFT Art Trilogy, echox.app, opens on November 10, 2022. Read Moreīorn 1965, Anyang City, He Nan Province, Chinaġ984–1988, He Nan University Kai Feng, He Nan Province, China, BAġ991–1993, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China, MA In 2018, MoMA PS1, New York, exhibited Land: Zhang Huan and Li Binyuan. Notable one-person exhibitions and installations include: Altered States (2007–08) at the Asia Society, New York Three-Legged Buddha, Royal Academy of Arts, Annenberg Courtyard, London (2007–08) Dawn of Time, Shanghai Art Museum (2010) Hope Tunnel, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (2010), Soul and Matter, Forte di Belvedere and Palazzo Vecchio (2013) Looking East, Facing West: The World of Zhang Huan, Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan, (2013) Evoking Tradition, Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York (2014) and My Temple, erected in Krauthuegel, a city park in Saltzburg, Austria (2015). The layers of ideas the artist explored in his early performance art, conceived of as existential explorations and social commentaries, have carried through to the more traditional studio practice he embraced upon moving to Shanghai in 2005, after living and working for eight years in New York City.

Zhang Huan is one of the most vital, influential and provocative contemporary artists working today.

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