Zhao Zhao

Biography

Zhao Zhao uses a variety of media to transform realistic subject matters and artistic forms, focusing on the relation between individual consciousness and social sphere in which he lives. He pays attention to and shows the subtle changes inside our heart under the influence of multiple cultures. In the global context, the combination of contemporary expression and traditional culture in his works is a metaphor for people's living conditions and their real state in the today's society. At the same time, he is very reflective on how concerns of the collectivity co-exist with the individual's daily expectations and dreams. Though he constantly challenges traditional ideologies, there is still a poetic aesthetics in his works under the critical aspect. Tradition to the artist is the thing that cannot be abandoned. In contemporary form of creation, the full spirit of traditional aesthetics can still be seen, so that we can always find a profound understanding of traditional cultural aesthetics in Zhao Zhao's works.

Zhao Zhao, born in Xinjiang, China, 1982. Now he works and lives in Beijing and Los Angeles. His provocative, multidisciplinary artist practice has garnered him international attention in recent years, includes solo shows in galleries such as Long Museum (Shanghai, China), Carl Kostyál foundation (Stockholm, Sweden), Song Art Museum (Beijing, China), Nanchizi Museum (Beijing, China), Today Art Museum (Beijing, China), Museu de Arte de Macau (Macau, China), Alexander Ochs Galleries (Berlin, Germany), Roberts & Tilton (Log Angeles, USA), Chambers Fine Art (New York, USA), Mizuma Art Gallery (Tokyo, Japan ), Lin & Lin Gallery (Taipei), Tang Contemporary Art ( Beijing, China ), CAAW ( Beijing, China ). He has received the support from many international institutions, among which are listed MOMA PS1 - The Museum of Modern Art (New York, USA), Tampa Museum of Art (Florida, USA), Pinchuk Art Centre (Kiev, Ukraine) , Groninger Museum (Groningen, Netherlands), Museum of Asian Art (Berlin, Germany), Collection of Hamburg Bahnhof Museum in Berlin (Berlin, Germany), Padiglione D'Arte Contemporanea (Milan, Italy), MAXXI Museum (Rome, Italy), Tiroche DeLeon Art Collection (Paris, France), Premi internacional d'art contemporani diputació de castelló (Castelló, Spain), White Rabbit Gallery (Sydney, Australia), M+westKowloon (Hong Kong, China), Minsheng Art Museum (Beijing, China), UCCA Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, China), New Century Art Foundation (Beijing, China), Taikang Art Museum (Beijing, China), Luxelakes•A4 Art Museum(Chengdu, China), Minsheng Art Museum (Shanghai, China), Museum of Contemporary Art (Shanghai, China), Star ArtMuseum (Shanghai, China), Ming Contemporary Art Museum (Shanghai, China), Yuz Museum (Shanghai, China), Tianjin Art Museum (Tianjin, China), Hubei Museum of Art (Wuhan,China), He Xiangning Museum (Shenzhen, China), Wanlin Art Museum (Wuhan, China) and NOW IS THE TIME - 2019 Wuzhen Contemporary Art Exhibition (Zhejiang, China). Zhao also released a number of collaboration with brands such as Louis Vuitton, Land Rover, NIKE, VANS, Venvennet, etc. Additionally, he won the Thirteenth AAC Artist of the Year Award in 2019; in 2017, he also obtained the award nomination of Chinese annual young artist in 11th ACC (Award of Art China). In 2014, Zhao Zhao was listed as one of the Modern Painters “25 Artists to Watch”.