About Zhang Huan - A Chinese Artists

Zhang Huan was born on 1965 in Yang City, He Nan Province, China he Lives and works in New York, China. After he was born, he moved to the country with his paternal grandmother and three brothers and lived there for about eight years. It was in important experience as it allowed him to grow up with nature and develop a direct relationship with it, with no inhibitions. He only went back to An Yang later and it was a pretty radical move, as it's a fairly big city, about five million people. He moved to Beijing a lot later. The first years spent in the city were pretty dramatic. I was very undisciplined, especially at school and a terrible student. I couldn't concentrate; they were always throwing me out. I couldn't stay shut up in a room, I wanted to be free. So I spent most of my time alone drawing.

Three years in making, Donkey was completed in 2006 and was the very first mechanical installation Zhang Huan made after he transferred part of his artistic production from New York back to Shanghai. The artist was both overwhelmed and dismayed by the overbearing and standardized presence of high-rises in the city. Other works such as the well-known To Raise the Water Level in a Fishpond, which took place on August 15, 1997, involved the participation of other performers. Forty or more participants, recent migrants to Beijing from other parts of China, were invited to walk into the pond in order to raise the water level, an absurd gesture that nonetheless underscores the far reaching effects of even the slightest movement or gesture.
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Zhang Huan 's Biography and Exhibitions

BIOGRAPHY

1965	Born An Yang City, He Nan Province, China
	Lives and Works in New York

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS-

2003
• Bochum Museum, Germany
• Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin

2002
• Kunstverein in Hamburg, Germany

2001
• Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York
• The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada
• Museo das Peregrinacions, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Famliy Tree, Galerie Albert Benamou, Paris, France

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