Zhang Xiaotao

1970　Born in Hechuan, Chongqing, China
1996　Graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute
1996-2009　Teacher in the Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu
2010　Teacher in the New Media Department of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute
Lives and Works in Beijing and Chongqing

Solo Exhibitions
2011　Sagya , White box museum of art,   Beijing，China
2010　Epidemiology，Guangdong Museum of Art，Guangzhou，China
2008　Microscopic Narration ，Iberia Center for Contemporary Art ，Beijing ，China
2007　Rebirth, Arthur M.Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology at Peking University, Beijing, China
Desires without Limits, Dolores de Sierra Galería de Arte, Madrid, Spain
2006　Beautiful Imbroglio, He Xiangning Art Museum Shenzhen, China
2005　Dreamscapes, Foundation 3.14 Bergen, Norway
　　　Dream Factory•Rubbish Heap, Tokyo Gallery, Japan
　　　Dreamscapes, M.K.Ciulionis Nat. Museum of Art, Kaunas, Lithuania
2004　Dream Factory﹒Rubbish Heap, Beijing Tokyo Art Projects, China
2003　Materialistic Decay, Akie Aricchi Art Contemporary Gallery, Paris, France
2002　Desire, Kunst Akademie Muenster, Germany
2001　Flowers in the Dream, Tokyo Gallery, Japan
2000　Fabricated Images, Pacific Bridge Gallery, Oakland, U.S.A.

Group Exhibitions
2011　Expression of Chinese Contemporary Art, Today Art Museum，Beijing，China
　　　Unable Absence: You should not miss it, Wenxuan Art Museum, Chengdu, China
　　　Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu Contemporary Art Museum, Chengdu, China
　　　World Printed Art Exhibition, Haeinsa Temple, Seoul, Korean
　　　Shanshui -Landscape Tradition and Landscape in Chinese Contemporary Art,
　　　Berne Art Museum, Switzerland 
　　　Imagine Australia, New Age: Australia-China International New Media Arts Exhibition，
　　　QUT Art Museum，Australia
　　　Games，White Box Museum of Art, Beijing, China
　　　Relationship:  New Chinese Construction Art, Museum of Art for the XXI Century, Rome, Italy
2010　"The Material and the Code: Disciplinary Crossings of Cinema Studies and New Media,"
　　　Chicago University, Chicago, USA
　　　Beijing Time, Santiago de Compostela, Santiago, Spain
　　　Reshaping History, China art from 20000 to 2009, China National Convention Center, Beijing, china
　　　Vision2: The Future That Encompasses the past -- An Art Exchange Program Between
　　　China and Taiwan, Tina Keng Gallery, Taibei, China
　　　Heart -the forefront of contemporary architecture in China Exhibition,
　　　Vitra Design Museum, Weimar, Germany
　　　“Digital Asia”, Xian Fine art Institute, Xian, China
　　　Arena: A Post Boom Beijing, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre, Australia
　　　“Flower of Chaos”, Veneto Video art Archive, Verona, Italy
　　　The big bang ，White Rabbit Museum, Sydney, Australia
　　　“Pure Views: China New paintings”, The Louise Blouin Foundation, London，British
　　　Nanjing Biennial, Jiangsu Province New Art Museum, Nanjing, China
2009　Beijing Time， Casa Asia Matadero Madrid ，Madrid，Spain
　　　Heart - the forefront of contemporary architecture in China Exhibition,
　　　CIVA, Brussels, Belgium
　　　CIFF,RCM ART MUSEUM，Nanjing，China
　　　Chongqing Youth Art Biennial ，Chongqing, China
　　　Ink Not Ink，Drexel University Art Museum，Philadelphia，USA
　　　This Ability- International New Media Art Exhibition & Symposium，
　　　CAFA Art Museum，Beijing，China
　　　The first Youth Art Biennial in Chongqing, Chongqing International
　　　Convention and Exhibition Center, Chongqing, China
　　　Sino-German Contemporary Art Exhibition, Wuhan Museum, Wuhan, China
　　　Beyond globalization，Beyond. Art. Space，Beijing,China
　　　Third Asian Youth Animation Competition, International Conference Center
　　　in Guizhou  Province, Guiyang, China
　　　The fourth Independent Film Exhibition, Li Xianting Film Fund, Beijing, China
　　　White rabbit collection from Chinese contemporary art，White Rabbit Museum, Sydney, Australia
　　　13th session of the Microwave International New Media Arts Festival, Hong Kong　　 Heritage Discovery Museum, Hong Kong, China
　　　"China's Digital Art Exhibition", Kuala Lumpur International Trade Center, Malaysia
　　　On love? On War? Stux Gallery, New York, United States
　　　China: the contemporary rebirth, Palazzo Reale Museum, Milan, Italy
　　　Warm Winter ,Sunny，008，Jiangfu art district ,Beijing ,china  
2008　“55 Days in Valencia”, Valencia Museum of Modern Art, Valencia, Spain
　　　Transgressive Body, TAPE BERLIN, Berlin, Germany
　　　Time-Lag, the New Power of Chinese Contemporary Art,
　　　Magee Art Gallery, Spain
　　　The Revolution Continues, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
　　　Reflective Asia，3rd Nanjing Triennial Asia, Nanjing Museum, Nanjing, China
　　　The 6th International Ink Painting Biennial of Shenzhen, Shenzhen Museum, Shenzhen, China
　　　People•history—exhibition of studies of Chinese art of the 20th century，China Central Academy of Fine Arts，Beijing, China
　　　RENDEZ - VOUS, Marella Gallery, Beijing, China
　　　SEMIOSIS, China Square, New York, USA.
　　　From Head to Toe, Stux Gallery, New York, USA.
　　　Poetic Realism, A Reinterpretation of Jiangnan, Francisco Tomásy Valiente Art Center, Madrid, Spain
　　　Intimate Trend, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, China
　　　Sculpture & Painting in an Era of Digital Images, No.10 Art Institute of Konggang, Chengdu, China
　　　Free Fall, Chen Ling Hui Contemporary Space, Beijing, China
　　　Waiting In the Wings, Beyond Art Space, Beijing, China
　　　Passing through, Art 39th Basel, Beijing art Now gallery, Basel, Switzerland
　　　The Sichuan Movement, the National Museum of Indonesia, Indonesia
　　　Enclaves New Contemporary Paintings of China，Square Gallery of Contemporary Art，Nanjing，China
　　　Paratissima 2008: The 'Off Event' of Artissima, San Salvario, Torin, Italy
　　　Black Rock Art Video/New Media Lounge, Art Miami 2008, Art Miami Pavilion, Miami, USA
　　　Lovely blossoms and full moon ，YUZ Museum，Jakarta，Indonesia
　　　The supplemental History, Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou, China
2007　Starting from Southwest, Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou, China
　　　We Go To Shanghai, Beijing Art Now Gallery Shanghai Station, China
　　　Chinese Whisper, Osage Kwun Tong, Hong Kong, China
　　　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, Korea
　　　3th Guiyang Art Biennale, Guiyang Art Museum, Guizhou, China
　　　The Art of Seduction—From Schiele to Warhol, Minoritenkloster Tulln, Austria
　　　The Alteration of Vision, Tang Contemporary Art, Bangkok Thailand
　　　China Now, Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
　　　The Seven Plateaus,  Ming Art Gallery， Beijing798， China
　　　Wild Beasts, Mook Gallery of Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
　　　Floating, New Generation of Art in China, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea
　　　Transparent Ju，Tibet Art Museum， China
　　　Post Avant-garde—Chinese Contemporary Art Four Directions of the New Era， Atting House， Hong Kong， China
　　　Reconstructed World View， K gallery, Chengdu, China
　　　The New Literati, Osage Gallery, Singapore
　　　Works in Progress, Beijing Tokyo Art Projects, China
　　　Interpret Shenzhen， Shenzhen Art Museum， China
　　　Beyond of Image--China New Painting, Shanghai Art Mmuseum, China
2006　Jiang Hu, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
　　　City Skin, Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen，China
　　　Internal Injuries, Marella Arte Contemporanea, Beijing, China
　　　Poetic Realism: A Reinterpretation of Jiangnan, RCM Art Museum, Nanjing, China
　　　Enchanting Images of a Changing World, Vienna Essl Museum, Austria
　　　Unclear and Cleamess, Heyri Art Foundation, Korea
　　　The Road Map of Painting 2, Beijing Tokyo Art Projects, China
　　　1st Annals Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art, Beijing China Millennium Monument, China
　　　Chanting Our Happy Life, the 2nd China Songzhuang Culture Art Festival, China
　　　Varied Images, Shanghai Art Museum, China
　　　Size Decides Attitude—First 5×7〞Picture-Taking Biennale Pingyao， Pingyao Shanxi，China
　　　Fitment OCAT ，CAT—Contemporary Art Terminal， Shenzhen， China
　　　Beyond Dimension ，Square Gallery of Contemporary Art， Nanjing， China
　　　Common Link, Vanessa Art Link, Beijing, China
2005　China Contemporary Painting, Fondazione Cassa Di Risparmioin Bologna, Italy
　　　Live in Chengdu, the Modern Art Museum, Chengdu, China
　　　2th Prague Biennial, Prague, National Gallery Veletrzni Palac, Prague
　　　2th Triennial of Chinese Arts, Nanjing Art Museum, Nanjing, China
　　　Conceptual Art—Exhibit of Contemporary Paintings From China, Tap Seac Gallery, Macao
　　　2th Chengdu Biennial, the Modern Art Museum, Chengdu, China
　　　Transparent Box, Jian Wai SOHO, Beijing, China
　　　The Road Map of Painting, 798 Space, Beijing, China
　　　City Skin, Tap Seac Gallery, Macao
　　　Challenge the Traditional Visual Limits, Shine Art Space, Shanghai, China
　　　Beyond Temporality ，Pingyao International Photography Festival，Pingyao Shanxi，China
　　　Contrasts and Contradictions, Shanghai Contrasts Gallery, China
　　　Touch Without Danger, the 8 Bridge, Shanghai, China
　　　Young Chinese Contemporary Art, Hangar-7, Austria
　　　China Contemporary Painting, APalazzo Bricherasio, Torino, Italy
　　　Conspire, TS1 Contemporary Art Center, 1st Exhibition, Beijing, China
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, Art Seasons, Beijing, China
　　　Officina Asia, Galleria d’Arte Modema. Bologna, Italy
　　　Hua Jia Di, Art Seasons, Beijing, China
　　　New Perspectives in Chinese Painting, Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milano, Italy
　　　Artificial Happiness, RMIT Museum Melbourne, Australia
　　　Live in Chengdu, Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
　　　Exhibition of Nominates for Art Documentation ，Art Gallery of Hubei Academy of Art ，Wuhan，China
2003　Reconstruction 798, 798 Factory Beijing, China
　　　Artificial Happiness, Jiang Art Center Beijing, China
　　　3th China National Exhibition of Oil Painting, China National Art Gallery, Beijing, China
　　　Left Hand - Right Hand—A Sino - German Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Beijing 798 Space, China
　　　China’s Photographic Painting, Beijing Normal University, China
　　　Mo ye mo de ，Mo ye mo bu de, Liaogezi, 798 Factory, Beijing, China
　　　Composite Picture of Asian, Hong Kong Art Museum, Hong Kong, China
　　　Image of image, Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
　　　Illusory, Museun63, Hongkong, Guangdong Art Museum, China
　　　Links between Two Points, Tokyo Gallery, Japan
2002　Dream—Chinese contemporary Art, CAC, Manchester, U.K.
　　　Korean Contemporary Art Festival, Seoul Art Center, Korean
　　　Triennial of Chinese Arts, Guangzhou Art Museum, China
　　　Beijing Afloat, Beijing Tokyo Art Projects Beijing, China
2001　Up-Down - Right-Left, the Feminism etc, the Modern Art Museum, Chengdu, China
　　　Reshuffle—Contemporary Chinese Art Show, Shenzhen Sculpture Institute, China
　　　Dream—Chinese Contemporary art, Atlantic’s Gallery, London, U.K.
　　　Mythology of China, Yidian Gallery, Shanghai, China
　　　Youth in transition, He Xiangning Art Museum Shenzhen, China
2000　Time of Reviving—2000’Contemporary Art Exhibition of China, Upriver Gallery, Chengdu, China
　　　2000’Nanjing Contemporary International Art Exhibition, Jiangsu Province Art Museum
of Nanjing, China
　　　Between the Dreams and the Picturesque Meaning—Vienna between 1900 and 2000, Schloss Cappenberg, Deutschland
1999　99’Academic Exhibition Upriver Gallery, Chengdu, China
　　　99’Nanjing Contemporary Art Exchange Exhibition, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China
1998　Beauty and Beast, Hanmo Gallery, Beijing, 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

Awards　
2009 Chongqing Youth Art Biennial Prize for outstanding works，Chongqing
2008 2nd Critics Annual, Young Artist of the Year Prize, Beijing 
1996 Lu Xun Fine Arts Institute, Mei Yuan Cup, First Prize, Shengyang

Public Collections
Upriver Gallery, Chengdu, China
Shenzhen He Xiangning Art Museum, China
Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
Guangdong Art Museum, China
Qinghe Art Museum, Nanjing, China
Kunst Akademie Muenster, Germany
Square Gallery of Contemporary Art, Nanjing, China
Thomastik-Infeld Foundation， Vienna， Italy
Heavenly stone Foundation in SanFrancisco, U.S.A
Chinese Contemporary Art Foundation, Belgium
Fondazione Cassa Di Risparmioin Bologna, Italy
Fondazione Golinelli Bologna, Italy
Foundation 3,14 Bergen, Norway
Saatchi gallery, British
Fundacíon de Cultura y Arte (IAC)
Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, China
White Rabbit Museum, Sydney, Australia
YUZ Museum，Jakarta， Indonesia