About the Artist Zhang Xiaotao pays great attention to both the real practice and the context of painting. He captures any single moment of life with a digital camera, not for seeking novelty; oppositely, he wants to observe the unusual from normal images.

1996

BA, Department of Oil Painting, Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, Chongqing, China

Solo Exhibitions

2007

Rena-scence, Arthur M. Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology at Peking University, Beijing, China

Desires Without Limits, Dolores de Sierra Galeria de Arte, Madrid, Spain

Night, Yuan Gong, Art Organization Artra Space, Shanghai eARTS, Shanghai, China

2006

Beautiful Imbroglio, He xiangning Art Museum Shenzhen China

An Entropic Vision, Shanghai Shine Art Space, China

2005

Dreamscapes Foundation3, 14 Bergen ,Norway

Dreamscapes M.K.Ciulionis Nat. Museum of Art, Kaunas, Lithuania

2004

Dream Factory-Rubbish heap Beijing Tokyo Art Projects Beijing

2003

Materialistic Decay Gallery Akie Aricchi Art Contemporary Paris France

2002

Desire Kunst Akademie Muenster Germany

2001

Flowers in the Dream Tokyo Gallery Japan

Group Exhibitions

2007

Starting From Southwest, Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou, China

Chinese Whisper, Osage kwun tong, Hongkong

New Painting from Southwest China, K gallery, Chengdu, China

From New Figurative image to New Painting, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

3 Langue 3 Colors, UM Gallery, Seoul, Korean

3rd Guiyang Art Biennale, Guiyang Art Museum, Guizhou, China

The Art of Seduction-- From Schiele to Warhol, Minoritenkloster Tulln, Austria

2006

Jiang Hu, Jack Tilton Gallery , New York

City Skin, Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen Internal injuries, Marella arte contemporanea , Beijing

Poetic Realism : A reinterpretation of Jiangnan , RCM Art Museum , Nanjing

Enchanting Images of a Changing World , Vienna Essl Museum , Austria

Unclear and Cleamess, Heyri Art Foundation , Korean

The Road map of Painting 2, Beijing Tokyo Art Projects Beijing

Varied Images, Shanghai art museum

2005

China Contemporary painting, Fondazione Cassa Di Risparmioin Bologna , Italy 2th Prague Biennial, Prague , National Gallery Veletrzni Palac, Prague

2th Triennial of Chinese Arts, Nanjing Art Museum Nanjing

2th Chengdu Biennial, the Modern Art Museum, Chengdu

Young Chinese Contemporary art, Hangar-7 , Austria

China Contemporary Painting, APalazzo Bricherasio , Torino , Italy

2004

Forbidden Senses ? – Sensuality In Contemporary Chinese Art Espace Culturel Francois Mitterand ,Perigueux,France

China Today Painting “ ---Infeld-Haus der Kulturen ,Vienna, Austria

China's photographic painting, China Art seasons, Beijing

Officina Asia,Galleria d’Arte Modema.Bologna,Italy

New Perspectives in Chinese Painting, Marella arte contemporanea,Milano ,Italy Artificial Happiness “ RMIT Museum Melbourne , Australia

Live in Chengdu, Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen

2003

left hand -right Hand, 798 Space Beijing

Composite picture of Asian, Hong Kong Art Museum

Image of image, Shenzhen Art Museum .Shenzhen

Illusory, Museun63, Hong Kong. Guangdong art Museum

links between two points, Tokyo gallery Japan

2002

Dream, Chinese contemporary Art. CAC. Manchester

Korean Contemporary Art Festival . Seoul Art Center Korean

Triennial of Chinese Arts, Guangzhou Art Museum

Beijing Afloat, Beijing Tokyo Art Projects Beijing

2001

Up-Down-Right-Left, -the Feminism etc, the Modern Art Museum, Chengdu

Dream, Chinese contemporary art , Atlantic’s Gallery, London

Youth in transition, He xiangning Art Museum Shenzhen

2000

Time of Reviving, 2000 Contemporary Art Exhibition of China, Upriver Gallery,Chengdu

Between the Dreams and the Picturesque Meaning, Vienna Between 1900 And 2000, Schloss Cappenberg, Deutschland

1999

'99 Academic Exhibition, Upriver Gallery, Chengdu, China

1997

Urban Personality and Contemporary Art, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China

1996

Personal Experience Show, Art Museum of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute ,Chongqing, China