Yang Zhenzhong
Hangzhou, China, 1968

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In 1995, his series entitled Lucky Family fixed a cockerel and hen for eternity, then the two birds with their cluster of chicks, mocking the typical picture of families and togetherness that, until recently, was so fashionable. He used photographs-snapshots of weddings and family celebrations-preparing them in the studio against a brightly coloured background, like an advertisement. (Claire Diez,2001)

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Education
Zhejiang Institute of Silk Textile, Fashion Department (1990)

solo exhibitions (selection)
2011 Don’t Move , ShanghART Beijing space
2008 Overpass , Canvas International Art, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2008 Yang Zhenzhong Solo Exhibition , Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
2006 Foreplay, Shanghart Gallery, Shanghai
2006 Yang Zhenzhong, IKON Gallery, Birmingham, UK
2002 Light as Fuck, Bizart Art Center, Shanghai
2001 I will Die - B Space of KUNSTEN FESTIVAL DES ARTS 2001, Brussels

group exhibitions (selection)
2011 Play Van Abbe: Part 4: The Pilgrim, the Tourist, the Flaneur (and the Worker) , Van Abbe museum, Eindhoven
2011 A Pile of Passion , ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai
2011 How we to do? , Heng Lu art museum, Hangzhou
2010 Out of the Box , Boers-Li Gallery, 798 Art District, Beijing
2010 Uneven Geographies: Art and Globalisation , Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, U.K
2010 Experimenta Utopia Now , Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia
2010 Personal Frontier, Today Art Museum, Beijing
2009 Impossible-8 Chinese Artists Engage Absurdity , San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery & MISSION 17, San Francisco, U.S.A
2009 Fact and Fiction-Recent works from The UBS Art Collection , Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
2009 The China Project—Three Decades: The Contemporary Chinese Collection , Queensland Art Gallery, Australia
2009 Consumer , salon 1.618, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
2009 Third Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art , The Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia
2009 Useful Life, MUHKA, Antwerp, Belgium
2008 FRECHEIT/FREIHEIT , Kulturzentrum bei den Minoriten, Graz, Austria
2008 Shanghype!-Portrait of the City from Dawn to Dusk , FUTURA Centre For Contemporary Art + Events, Prague, Czech Republic
2008 Like Animals (Comme des betes) , Musee cantonal des beaux-arts de Lausanne, Switzerland
2008 The World of Other’s: A Contemporary Art Exhibition , Museum of Contemportary Art, Shanghai, China
2008 Our Future , Ullens Foundation, Beijing, China
2008 Avant-Garde China: Twenty Years of Chinese Contemporary Art , The National Art Center, Tokyo; The National Museum of Art, Osaka; Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya
2007 Of Beast and Man (Des bêtes et des hommes) , Grande Halle de La Villette, Paris, France
2007 Global Cities , Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London, UK
2007 China- Facing Reality , Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation Vienna, Austria
2007 DEAF07/DEAF07: Interact or Die , Dutch Electronic Art Festival 2007, V2_ Institute for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2007 Global Cities, Tate Modern, London
2007 Red Hot -Contemporary Asian Art Rising, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
2006 The 5th Asia–Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT5), the Queensland Art Gallery, Australia
2006 China Contemporary, Architecture, Art and Visual Culture, Netherlands Architecture Institute | Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen | Nederlands fotomuseum, The Netherlands
2005 Zooming into Focus NAMOC - Contemporary Chinese Photography and Video from the Haudenschild Collection, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
2005 Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland
2004 Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, ICP and the Asia Society, NY, USA (traveling, Museum of Contemporary Art and the Smart Museum of Art, Chicago; Seattle Art Museum, the Santa Barbara Museum, V&A, London, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin)
2003 Alors la Chine?, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France