Yunyao Zhang

About

Yunyao Zhang is a Chinese artist living and working in Paris.

Yunyao Zhang belongs to the new generation of Chinese artists and the artistic renaissance of Shanghai scene. Their outlooks are international. Neither political tensions nor social issues are part of their centers of interest. Zhang is initially a meticulous and talented draftsman. Attracted by the dramatic sense of the graphite, his technicity and intensity, he learns drawing in a meticulous manner to create depths, textures, and tons. His figurative and hyperrealist compositions, with an extraordinary precision and impressive proportion, are a signature as well as the depictions of classical, mythological and religious scenes. Their beauty, which have been immortalized by the old masters, continue to inspire him. Yunyao Zhang has been exhibited by Emmanuel Perrotin in 2017 and collected by Francois Pinault in 2020.

Artworks

  • Yunyao Zhang

    Floating I

    Pastel on left
    215 × 200 cm
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    Floating II

    Pastel on left
    215 × 200 cm
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    Floating III

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Series

The Medusa Series

Medusa (2014) is the emblematic series of Yunyao Zhang. Fascinated by old masters as well as representations of classical, mythological and religious scenes, Medusa or Gorgon is a recurrent and striking image in his practice.

This legendary character from Greek mythology is one of the primordial preolympian deities. Raped by Poseidon in a temple dedicated to Athena, she is punished by the same goddess who transforms her into a Gorgon. The three Gorgons are female creatures, fantastic and malefic, with hair made of snakes that can petrify in stone all those who cross their glance. They emit a terrifying and petrifying noise, a sharp screaming, inhumain, like the complaint that the dead emit from beyond the grave. They represent the fear in front of the death embodied by a fantasized feminine omnipotence. The Medusa is the most famous of the three Gorgons and the only mortal. She will be decapitated by Perseus whose head will be given to Athena.

Resume

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS :

CMS, PARIS

FONDATION FRANCOIS PINAULT, PARIS

THE COMPLETE RESUME IS AVAILABLE ONLY ON COMPUTER !

COMPLETE RESUME :

EDUCATION :

2011 ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS, SHANGHAI NORMAL UNIVERSITY, SHANGHAI

RESIDENCIES :

2013 ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE, GLENFIDDICH, CANADA

SOLO SHOWS :

2020 YUNYAO ZHANG, GALERIE MARGUO, PARIS

2019 YUNYAO ZHANG, PALACE OF EXTASY, QIAO SPACE, SHANGHAI

2017 YUNYAO ZHANG, SKIN GESTURE BODY, DON GALLERY, SHANGHAI

2017 YUNYAO ZHANG, NEC SPE NEC METU, PERROTIN GALLERY, HONG KONG

2015 YUNYAO ZHANG, AFTER EVENSONG, DON GALLERY, SHANGHAI

2013 YUNYAO ZHANG, AFTER EVENSONG, DON GALLERY, SHANGHAI

2013 YUNYAO ZHANG, TOUCH POINT, 01100001 GALLERY, BEIJING

2013 YUNYAO ZHANG, MIRAGE, DON GALLERY, SHANGHAI

2013 YUNYAO ZHANG, MY DARK LIFE, A STORY OF A KING AND HIS CLOWN, ART STAGE, SINGAPORE

2011 YUNYAO ZHANG, PARADBOX, DON GALLERY, SHANGHAI

GROUP SHOWS :

2023 UNDER THE GAZE OF MEDUSE, FINE ART MUSEUM, CAEN

2021 LOUIS 200, THE EXHIBITION, GALERIE LOUIS VUITTON, PARIS

2021 OFF ROAD II, ZENO X GALLERY, ANTWERP

2021 POPERINGE, WATOU ARTS FESTIVAL, WATOU

2021 IDOLES, L’ART DES CYCLADES ET DE L’ANATOLIE A L’AGE DE BRONZE, MUSEE FENAILLE, RODEZ

2021 PRESENTATION OF MARGUO ARTISTS, GALERIE MARGUO, PARIS

2020 SUMMER EXHIBITION, ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS, LONDON

2019 EPITHET PORTRAYED, DON GALLERY, SHANGHAI

2019 SWALLOW IT, DON GALLERY, SHANGHAI

2018 STEADFASTLY RAISE THE STANDARDS IN NONPRODUCTIVE CONSTRUCTION, DON GALLERY, SHANGHAI

2017 SHANGHAI DANDY, DON GALLERY, SHANGHAI

2016 WE, CHI K11 ART MUSEUM, SHANGHAI

2015 OBSERVER - CREATOR, CAFA, BEIJING

2015 MOMENTS, DON GALLERY, SHANGHAI

2014 PRESENT, ING RECITAL LOUDER THAN PAINT, SHANGHAI GALLERY OF ART, SHANGHAI

2013 ABUSE, DON GALLERY, SHANGHAI

2013 PLUS FOLLOW, MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, SHANGHAI

2013 POLYPHONY, 21 KINDS OF STATE, ART MUSEUM OF NANJING UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS, NANJING

2012 OUTDATED, DON GALLERY, SHANGHAI

2012 THE HALO EFFECT, V ART CENTER, SHANGHAI

2011 WE ARE HERE, DON GALLERY, SHANGHAI

2011 DAILY, QINGHE CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM, NANJING

2011 SH CONTEMPORARY, SHANGHAI EXHIBITION CENTER, SHANGHAI

2011 IF, DON GALLERY, SHANGHAI

2011 PLUS FOLLOW, MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, SHANGHAI

2011 XINZHUANG, THE STORIES OF FIVE YOUTHS, DON GALLERY, SHANGHAI

2011 CONTEMPORARY CHINA, WANDESFORD QUAY GALLERY, CORK

2010 CHORUS, DON GALLERY, SHANGHAI

2009 4 BERLINER TREFFEN 8 CHINESEN, NOTHING ART, BERLIN

2008 SUMMER AUCTION OF CHINESE WORKS OF ART, EASTLINK GALLERY, SHANGHAI

2007 AUTUMN AUCTION OF CHINESE WORKS OF ART, EASTLINK GALLERY, SHANGHAI

2007 HOMEWORLD, XIANGJIANG GALLERY, SHANGHAI

2006 ME US, WU XING GALLERY, SHANGHAI