Biography
1958 - Born in Kunming, Yunnan, China
1982 - Graduated from the Oil Painting Department at Sichaun Academy of Fine Arts, Chongqing, China
Lives and works in Sichuan and Beijing, China
The Saatchi Gallery writes,
Inspired by family photos from the Cultural Revolution period, as well as the European tradition of surrealism, Zhang Xiaogang’s paintings engage with the notion of identity within the Chinese culture of collectivism. Basing his work around the concept of ‘family’ –immediate, extended, and societal – Zhang’s portraits depict an endless genealogy of imagined forebears and progenitors, each unnervingly similar and distinguished by minute difference.
Tiananmen Square1993
Oil on Canvas
This work sold for $2,345,200 at Christie's Hong Kong on November 26, 2006 - a record high price for contemporary Chinese art at the time.
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