1958  Born in Kunming, Yunnan Province, China
1982  Graduated from Oil Department, the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China
Current: Lives and Works in Beijing.

Solo Exhibitions
2007  Zhang Xiaogang, Sara Hilden Art Museum, Tampere, Finland
2006  Home – Zhang Xiaogang, Beijing Commune, Beijing, China
      Zhang Xiaogang Exhibition, the Art Center of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
      Amnesia and Memory, Artside Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2005  Zhang Xiaogang 2005, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, USA
2004  Umbilical Cord of History: Paintings by Zhang Xiaogang, Hong Kong Art Center, Hong Kong, China
2003  Forget and Remember, Gallery of France, Pairs, France
2000  Zhang Xiaogang 2000, Max Protetch Gallery, New York,USA
1999  Les Camarades, Gallery of France, Pairs, France
1998  Bloodline: The Big Family-1998,Hanart Taibei Gallery, Taiwan
1997  Bloodline: The Big Family-1997, Gallery of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
1989  Lost in the Dreams, Gallery of the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, Chongqing, China

Group Exhibitions
2008  Academic and Un-academic Ⅱ, Yibo Gallery, Shanghai, China
　　　Facing Reality, China National Museum of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
2007  China - Facing Reality, Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation, Vienna, Austria
　　　Chinese Contempoary Sotsart, The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
　　　Embarking from the Southwest - Contemporary Art Exhibition, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
　　　Black White Gray- A Conscious Culture Stance, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
2006  Shu: Reinventing Book in Contemporary Chinese Art, China Institute Gallery, New York, USA
　　　Dark Side Society, New York, USA
　　　China Now, Sammlung Essl Museum, Vienna, Austria
　　　The Blossoming of Realism - The Oil Painting of Mainland China, China National Museum of Fine Arts, Beijing; Taipei National Museum, Taipei, China
2005  Take Off - An Exhibition of the Contemporary Art Collection, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
2004  Shanghai Biennial, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
　　   China, the Body Everywhere?, Marseilles Museum of Contemporary Art, Marseilles, France
           Three Worlds, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China
2003  From China with Art, Indonesian National Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
　　   The East Daybreak: Chinese Painting One Hundred Years, Africa Museum, Paris, France
2002  14 Chinese Artist / Made by Chinese, Enrico Navarra Gallery, Paris, France
　　   Babel 2002, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
　　   The First Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
　　   Image Is Power, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
2001  C'est Moi, C'est Nous, Gallery of France, Paris, France
　　   Academic and Un-academic, Yibo Gallery, Shanghai, China
　　   Initial Image - Contemporary Art on Paper, Yibo Gallery, Shanghai, China
　　   Hot Pot: Chinese Contemporary Art, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway
　　   Towards A New Image Twenty Years of Contemporary Chinese Painting, China National Museum of Fine Arts, Beijing; Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai; Sichuan Art Museum, Chengdu; Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
　　    The Third Mercosul Biennale, Porto Alegre, Brazil
2000  Man+SPACE, Kwangju Biennial 2000, Kwangju, Korea
　　   Messagers of the Hearth, Center of Contemporary Art of the LycEe Xavier Bernard in RouillE, France
　　   Portrait de Chine Contemporaine, Espace Culturel Francois Mitterrand, Perigueux, France
　　   Les Passe - Murailles, Contemporary Art of China, Picardie Museum, Amiens, France
1999  Faces, Masion de la Culture de la Province de Namur (With Georg Baselitz, David Hockney, Camille De Taeye and Ruth Francken) Belgium
1998  China New Art, Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
　　   Magritte and Contemporary Art, Dostende Contemporary Art Museum, Belgium
　　   Inside Out: New Chinese Art, Asia Society; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, NewYork; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA
1997  China!, Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany, Touring Show in Germany, Austria, Poland, Denmark
　　   The Face and Bodies from the Middle Kingdom, Prague Art Museum, Prague, Czech Republic
　　   Quotation Marks: Chinese Contemporary Paintings, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
　　   China New Art, Lisbon Museum of Art, Portugal
1996  The 2nd Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Museum, Australia
1995  46th Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
　　   Des del Pais del centre: Aantguarde Artisiques Xineses, Santa Monica Art Center, Barcelona, Spain
1994  22nd International Biennial of Sao Paulo, Brazil
1989  China Avant-garde, China National Museum of Fine Arts, Beijing
1988  Art from Southwest of China, Chengdu, China
1987  Modern Art of China, China National Museum of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
1985  Neorealism, Shanghai; Nanjing, China

Public Collections
Upriver Gallery,Chengdu, China
Dongyu Museum of Fine Arts, Shenyang, China
Shanghai Art Museum, China
Shenzhen Art Museum, China
He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, ShenZhen, China
HongKong Internationa Conterence & Exhibition
Fukuoka Museum of Art, Japan
Okinawa Museum of Art, Japan
National Museum of contemporary Art, Korea
Guggenheim Museum of Art, USA
Asia &Pacific Art museum, USA
Logan Colllecition-San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA
Coutt's Art Foundation, England
Gasworks Art Foundation, England
Peter Stuyvesant Art Foundation, Amsterdam
Queenssland Art Museum, Autralia          
National Gallery of Australia
The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
Picardie National Museum Amiens France
Saint-denis Art Museum Paris France
Saint-denis Are Museum Paris France