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Jiang Zhi (b.1971, Yuanjiang City, Hunan Province) is a Beijing-based artist who graduated from the China Academy of Art in 1995. After participating in the ‘Post-Sense Sensibility’ exhibitions in the 1990s, Jiang Zhi has subsequently proceeded to become one of the most influential Chinese artists of his generation. He works with a wide range of mediums that span video, painting, photography, installation, poetry and writing novels. He was awarded the academic achievement of Reshaping History (Chinart from 2000-2009) in 2010, the Asian New Force IFVA Critics Award in 2002, and was also awarded the Chinese Contemporary Art Award (CCAA) in 2000.

Major solo exhibitions include: Life, Aranya Art Center, Qinhuangdao, China (2024); The Man Who Carves the Boat, Pingshan Art Museum, Guangdong (2022); Can I Become Better?, Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong (2020); Hypocenter, Zurich, CN (2019); Already I Know the Storms, Magician Space, Beijing, CN (2018); Going and Coming, Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong, CN (2018); To Make with Changes, HdM Gallery, Beijing, CN (2017); One is All, All is One, Tina Keng Gallery, Taipei, CN (2017); Predestiny, Magician Space, Beijing, CN (2016); The Sight, White Cube, Hong Kong, CN (2015); Strait is the Gate, Magician Space, Beijing, CN (2012); If This is a Man, Times Museum, Guangzhou, CN (2012).

Major group exhibitions include: Tales of the South, He Art Museum, Shunde, CN (2023); How Far How Close, Aranya Art Center, Qinhuangdao, CN (2023), Getting Righteousness and Formlessness —— Abstract Narrative of Momentary, Ming Yuan Art Museum, Shanghai, CN (2023); Play & Loop V, Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong, CN (2023); The Circular Impact, OCAT Shanghai, Shanghai (2021); The Arts of Memory, OCAT Shenzhen, CN (2021); Futurism of the Past – Contemplating the Past and Future in Chinese Contemporary Art, Beijing Exhibition Center, Beijing, CN (2021); Noire Lumière, How Art Museum, Shanghai, CN (2020); Questioning Power, Osage Hong Kong, Hong Kong, CN (2020); Resort, Three on the Bund, Shanghai, CN (2020); The 4th Today’s Documents: A Stitch in Time, Beijing Times Art Museum, Beijing, CN (2019); Ordinary Lie, Seoul Museum, Seoul, KR (2019); On Paper 2, White Space, Beijing, CN (2018); Fiction Art, OCAT Shenzhen, Shenzhen, CN (2018); Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture: City Grow Difference, Shenzhen, CN (2017); Art and China After 1989: Theatre of the World, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, US (2017); The Exhibition of Annual of Contemporary Art of China 2016, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, CN (2016); That Has Been, and May Be Again, Para Site, Hong Kong (2016); The 9th Shanghai Biennale 2012 – Reactivation, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, CN (2012); The 4th Guangzhou Triennial – The Unseen, Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou, Guangdong, CN (2012); Time Versus Fashion, Kunstverein Nürtingen, Germany (2009); Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, ICP and Asia Society, New York, USA (2004); The 50th Biennale di Venezia, Venice, ITA (2003); The 4th Gwangiu Biennale Exhibition, Gwangiu, KR (2002); Post-Sense Sensibility: Alien Bodies & Delusion, Beijing, CN (1999).