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Zhang Zhenxue (张振学), born 1982 in Heilongjiang, graduated with a Master Degree in Oil Painting from the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 2011. His works have been featured in a range of group exhibitions including Diagonal – Construct a New Context (Joy Art Gallery, Beijing), Shanghai Youth Biennial (China Art Palace, Shanghai), John Moores New Painting Prize Exhibition (Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai). Mixing realism and romanticism, abstraction and expressionism, Chongqing-Sichuan-based Zhang Zhenxue renders his recurring motif of water in thick layers of oil on canvas and rhythmic brushstrokes on paper.
The artists earlier works engulf the viewers in the grandeur of splendid interiors decorated with chandeliers and grand staircases, while his later works are inviting to enter a peaceful, meditative realm of flowing waters. The monumentality and symmetry so vividly observed in Zhang Zhenxue’s early stage of art practice, give place to fluidity, movement, and self-reflection in his newest series.
Zhang Zhenxue (张振学), born 1982 in Heilongjiang, graduated with a Master Degree in Oil Painting from the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 2011. His works have been featured in a range of group exhibitions including Diagonal – Construct a New Context (Joy Art Gallery, Beijing), Shanghai Youth Biennial (China Art Palace, Shanghai), John Moores New Painting Prize Exhibition (Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai). Mixing realism and romanticism, abstraction and expressionism, Chongqing-Sichuan-based Zhang Zhenxue renders his recurring motif of water in thick layers of oil on canvas and rhythmic brushstrokes on paper.
The artists earlier works engulf the viewers in the grandeur of splendid interiors decorated with chandeliers and grand staircases, while his later works are inviting to enter a peaceful, meditative realm of flowing waters. The monumentality and symmetry so vividly observed in Zhang Zhenxue’s early stage of art practice, give place to fluidity, movement, and self-reflection in his newest series.
| 1982 | Born in Heilongjiang Province, China |
| 2006 | Graduated from Sichuan Institute of Fine Arts with a Bachelor Degree in Art Deco |
| 2011 | Graduated from Sichuan Institute of Fine Arts with a Master Degree in Oil Painting |
| 2014 | Master of Fine Arts, Mural Painting Department, China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing |
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
| 2018 | Syllepsis and Narration: Zhang Zhenxue Solo Exhibition, OrganHaus, Chongqing |
| 2013 | No Standpoint, 55 Gallery, Shanghai |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| 2019 | In Between Days IX – Works from the Gallery Collection, Art+ Shanghai Gallery, Shanghai Daily Life, The First Shanghai Young Artists Salon, Ke Art Museum, Shanghai |
| 2018 | Rolling Snowball/9, Djúpivogur, Iceland Huang Yi Ping New Year Art Festival Chongqing 102 Art Museum |
| 2017 | In Between Days VII, Collection of the Gallery Artists, Art+ Shanghai Gallery, Shanghai CEAC Rolling Snowball 8, Xiamen |
| 2016 | Resurrection of Materiality: Dual Exhibition by Zhuang Hongyi and Zhang Zhenxue, Art+ Shanghai Gallery, Shanghai John Moores Painting Prize (China), Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai |
| 2015 | First Shenzhen Biennale for Contemporary Art, Shenzhen Textile Zone, Shenzhen John Moores Painting Prize Winners’ (2010 – 2014) Exhibition, Today Art Museum, Beijing (Chongqing Art Museum, Macao Golden Light Convention & Exhibition Center, Shanghai 21st Century Minsheng Art Museum) |
| 2014 | Apercevoir au loin l’horizon, Museum of Asian Arts, Nice, France Diagonal – Construct the New Context, JoyArt Gallery, Beijing |
| 2013 | Growing—Shanghai Youth Biennial, China Art Palace, Shanghai |
| 2012 | BOOM! 2012 CYAP EXHIBITION, International Exhibition Center, Beijing Savour—The Cultural Experience of the Post-80s Artists in China, Art House, Singapore Focus – Tank Loft Youth Art Series, Tank Loft – Contemporary Art Center, Chongqing |
| 2011 | Fresh Eyes’ 2011: Framework – Growing Inside out, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen Paintings of Distinction: Huangjueping Group Exhibition, Blueroof Art Museum, Chengdu Look at the Future – Special Invitational Exhibition of the Chengdu Biennale, Wenxuan Art Museum, Chengdu The 18th Annual Exhibition of Students from Oil Painting Department of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, CAEA Museum, Chongqing |
| 2010 | The First New Star Art Festival, Chengdu, New International Convention & Exposition Center, Chengdu The 70th Anniversary of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute – Professors and Students Works Exhibition, SAFA New Campus Artist Studios, Chongqing 2010 John Moores New Painting Prize Awarded Works Exhibition, Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery John Moores New Painting Prize 2010 (Awarded Artists), Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai The 17th Annual Exhibition of Students from Oil Painting Department of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, CAEA Museum, Chongqing The First Round: Eight Graduate Students’ Work Exhibition, 108 Art Space, Chongqing Over Foul Line Art, Tank Loft – Chongqing Contemporary Art Center, Chongqing Red River Revolution: An Exhibition of Taiwan, Chongqing, Kunming, and Chengdu Contemporary Art, Honghe Prefectural Museum Initial Offerings: Huangjueping Emerging Artists’ Work Exhibition, Chang’an Contemporary Art Museum, Chongqing 2009 New Students, Stay Away From The Bubbles: Exhibition of Students in the South West Art Academies, Chengdu, Blue Dreamland Gallery |
| 2009 | We – Huangjueping Annual Art Exhibition, SAFA Sculpture Department, Gallery & SAFA New Campus Student Art Museum, Chongqing The 6th Annual Exhibition of Graduate Students Work of SAFA, Chongqing Art Museum, Chongqing The Second Chongqing Graduate Students Artworks Exhibition, Chongqing University Art Museum, Chongqing |
| 2008 | Graduate Students Artworks Exhibition, Southwest University Art School Museum, Chongqing Soldier and the River: A Selection Exhibition of Emerging Artists in Southwest, Blueroof Art Gallery, Chengdu Dream Away: An Exploring Sketch Exhibition of Five People, SAFA Gallery, Chongqing |
| 2007 | The Second National Lacquer Painting Exhibition, Guangzhou Museum of Art, Guangzhou |
COLLECTIONS
John Moores Collection (England)
