Exhibition
Jiang Zhi Between Landscapes
Curator:Fiona He
MANGROVEGALLERY, Shenzhen
2021.11.27-2022.1.8
Biography
Born in 1971 in Yuanjiang, Hunan, China, Jiang Zhi graduated from China Academy of Art in 1995. Jiang works with a wide range of media, including photography, painting, video, and installation. Fiction and poetry have also been an important part of his artistic output. Consistently engaging with contemporary social and cultural issues, Jiang consciously positions himself at the intersection of poetics and sociology, while weaving mundane social and personal experiences into his works.
Jiang currently lives and works in Beijing, China.As one of the most versatile Chinese artists of his generation, Jiang Zhi has had two major solo retrospectives at OCAT Shenzhen (2016) and Times Museum in Guangzhou (2012). His work has also been exhibited by international institutions and biennials, including “Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World” (Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA, 2017), the 9th Shanghai Biennial (Shanghai Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China, 2012), the 4th Guangzhou Triennial (Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou, China, 2012), Beijing Today Art Museum “The First Today’s Documents (2007 ), “Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China” (ICP and Asia Society, New York, USA, 2004), “Zone of Urgency”, the 50th Biennale di Venezia (Venice, Italy, 2003), and the 4th Gwangju Biennale (Gwangju, South Korea, 2002). Jiang was awarded the Chinese Contemporary Art Award (CCAA) in 2000, the Academic Award of Reshaping History (Chinart from 2000 to 2009) in 2010, and the Credit Suisse Today Art Award in 2012.
Solo Exhibitions (Selection)
2021Between Landscapes, MANGROVEGALLERY, Shenzhen, China
2020Can I Become Better?, Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong, China
2019Hypocenter —Jiang Zhi, SiloSilo, Zurich, Switzerland
2018Flying Blind — Jiang Zhi, Artron Art Cenre, Shenzhen, China
Un-forming – Jiang Zhi , The Roof Art Museum, Liang Zhu Center of Arts, Hangzhou, China
Already I know the storms—Jiang Zhi, Magician Space, Beijing, China
Going and Coming, Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong
2017One is All, All is One, TKG+, Taipei, China 2016Jiang Zhi Solo Exhibition: ALL, OCAT Shenzhen Exhibition Hall A, Shenzhen, China Predestiny, Magician Space, Beijing, China 2015The Sight, White Cube, Hong Kong 2012Strait is the Gate, Magician Space, Beijing, China Love Letters, M97 Gallery, Shanghai, China Impure Light, Saamlung Gallery, Hong Kong, China If This is a Man, Times Museum, Guangzhou, China 2011A Thought Arises, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, China 2010Attitude, Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing, China Temperature of the Nerve Endings, Tang Contemporary Art, Bangkok, Thailand Temblar, Magee Art Gallery, Madrid, Spain 2009Attitude, Osage Gallery, Shanghai, China; Osage Gallery, Hong Kong, China On The White, Osage Gallery, Singapore 2008On The White, Osage Gallery, Hong Kong, China Neurosis and Prattle, Marella Gallery, Beijing, China Shine Upon Me, DF2 Gallery, Los Angeles, United States 2007Things Would Turn Simple Once They Happened: Jiang Zhi Solo Photography Show, M97Gallery, Shanghai, China 2006Double Rooms – No. 03: Jiang Zhi Solo Exhibition, Zhu Qizhan Art Museum, Shanghai, China 1999Mu Mu: Exhibition of Jiang Zhi’s Photography, Borges Libreria, Guangzhou, China
Group Exhibitions (Selection)
2021The Arts of Memory, OCAT Shenzhen Exhibition Hall A, Shenzhen, China
Futurism of the Past- Contemplating the Past and Future in Chinese Contemporary, ArtBeijing Exhibition Center, Beijing, China
Traveling toward a Perpetual Present, SGA Gallery, Shanghai, China
The Fourth Today’s Documents: A Stitch In Time Group Exhibition, ChongQing Contemporary Art Museum, ChongQing, China
The Circular Impact: Video Art 21, OCAT Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Affect: Jiang Han Star Plan 2021 – Young Artists Research Exhibition, Wuhan Art Museum, Wuhan, China
When the Memory has Not been Forgotten, X Photo Gallery, Changsha, China
Multi-prismatic Mutual View，Macau Museum of Art, Macao, China
2020The Curation Workshop II: Sample Cases from OCAT, OCAT, Shenzhen, China Noire Lumière, How Art Museum, Shanghai, China Questioning Power, Osage Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China Resort, Three on the Bund, Shanghai, China As time goes by… New Stories from the Garden, Cang lang Ting The Surfing Wave Pavilion & Ke Yuan, Suzhou, China Duration: Chinese art in Transformation, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing , China In the Name of Flower, Pearl Art Museum, Shanghai, China Situation Baroque, National Agricultural Exhibition Centre Hall 11 Wish You a Sweeeeeet life, Duende Contemporary Art Museum, Foshan, China Shapes of Immortality, Arts & Crafts Museum Hangzhou, Hangzhou, China When Speed Become Form – Live In Your Screen, Wind In the Name of Flower, Pearl Art Museum, Shanghai, ChinaH Art Center, Beijing, China In the Name of Flower, Pearl Art Museum, Shanghai, China Play & Loop II, Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong, China Image- City-History: Shenzhen1891-2020, Guanshanyue Art Museum, Shenzhen, China About Us. Young Photography from China, The Alexander Tutsek-Sitftung, München, Germany Embodied Mirror: Performances in Chinese video Art, New Century Art Foundation, Beijing, China A one and a two: Artists Books Project, Aranya Art Center, Beidaihe , Beidaihe New Area, China Leaving and Returning, Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel 2019The 4th Today’s Documents – A Stitch in Time Beijing times art museum, Beijing, China Concentration and Conciseness, The Bund Finance Center, Shanghai, China Ordinary Lie , Seoul Museum, Seoul, Korea Pal(ate)/ette/, Shanghai gallery of art, Shanghai, China Free Prism: Video Wave, OCT Boxes Art Museum, Foshan, China Writing Non – Writing: Hangzhou International Modern Calligraphy Festival, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China Technology Condenses Into Landscape—Tech Based Art and Landscape Painting, BEI Zhaolong, Beijing, China The Curation Workshop—Exhibition Curation and Design, OCT Art & Design Gallery, Shenzhen, China Love Love Love, Essence Contemporary Art Museum, Chongqing, China New Art History: 2000-2018 Chinese Contemporary Art, MOCA Yinchuan, Yinchuan, China Now is the Time – 2019 Wuzhen Contemporary Art Exhibition, Wuzhen, Zhejiang, China New Video from China, Museum of Contemporary Art of Roma (Macro) , Italy 2018The D-Tale: Video Art from the Pearl River Delta ,Times Art Center,Berlin, Germany Guangzhou Design Week City Art Direction—Origin, Taikoo Hui, Guangzhou, China Love: Intimate, Today Art Museum, Beijing , China Mind Temple, MoCA Shanghai, Shanghai, China Der Zauber des Alltäglichen- Lyrik•Film 2018, TPM, Nanjing, China Goddess in The Shell, Hangzhou Arts and Crafts Museum, Hangzhou, China Inspiration in Focus, MoCA Shanghai, Shanghai, China New Expression of Beijing, N3 Contemporary Art, Beijing, China 40 years of Chinese Contemporary Photography, OCAT Shenzhen, China On Paper 2, White Space, Beijing, China Fiction Art, OCAT Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China The God of Small Things, Leo Gallery, Shanghai, China Wonderful World, Beijing, Times Arts Museum, Beijing, China Ideological Characteristics, WXY Foundation, Xian, China Rhizome—A Survey Subject of Chinese Contemporary Arts, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China 2017Troposphere—Chinese and Brazilian Contemporary Art, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China The 7th Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture—Cities Grow in Difference, Shenzhen, China Guangzhou Image Triennial—Simultaneous Eidos, Guangdong Museum of Art, GuangzhouChina Art and China after 1989: Theatre of the World, Guggenheim Museum, New York, United States M+ screenings: City Limits, M+ ,Hong Kong, China The Exhibition of Annual of Contemporary Art of China 2016, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China Canton Express: Art of the Pearl River Delta, M+ Museum, Hong Kong, China Moments and More: Documents of Culture Pavilion [wén huà guǎn] Online Art Project OCAT Shanghai, Shanghai, China Post-sense Sensibility: Trepidation and Will, Shanghai Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai, China 2016Post-sense Sensibility: Trepidation and Will, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China Love Addict: Jiang Zhi and Chen Xiaoyun, Taikang Space, Beijing, China Turning Point—Contemporary Art in China Since 2000, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China Heavy Artillery, Rabbit Gallery, Australia The World is Yours, as Well as Ours, White Cube, London, United Kingdom Exotic Stranger, Galerie Paris-Beijing, Paris, France 2015Nonfigurative, Shanghai 21st Century Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China Beyond Image: Laboratory of Light, Hubei Museum of Art, Hubei, China Grain to Pixel—A History of Photography in China, Shanghai Center of Photography, Shanghai, China Concert of Form: Art Without Text, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China The 2nd Three Shadows Experimental Image Open Exhibition, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China 2014Unseen Existence: Dialogues with the Environment in Contemporary Art, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong, China The 3rd Criticism—Art Language, Times Art Museum, Beijing, China The 12th National Art Exhibition—The Section of Experimental Art, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China The World III in the Third World, Chulalongkorn Art Centre, Bangkok, Thailand Advance through Retreat, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China Three Shadows First Experimental Image Open Exhibition, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China 2013The 5th Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture: Urban Border, Shenzhen, China The 8th International Ink Art Biennale of Shenzhen, Guan Shan Yue Art Museum, Shenzhen, China Art Sanya: Encounters, Sanya, China Being is Not Being, UCCA, Beijing, China Pessimism or Resistance?, Taikang Space, Beijing, China New Framework: Chinese Avant-garde Photography from 1980s-90s, Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong, China 2012The Finalists Exhibition of Credit Suisse Today Art Award 2012, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China The 9th Shanghai Biennale: Reactivation, Shanghai Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China The 4th Guangzhou Triennial: The Unseen, Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou, China 2011The Power of Doubt, Times Museum, Guangzhou, China Guanxi: Contemporary Chinese Art, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China The 1st CAFAM Biennale: Super-Organism, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China The Shape of Time: The Multi-narrative History in Contemporary Chinese Art, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China Moving Image in China: 1988-2011, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China Guanxi: Contemporary Chinese Art, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China Breaking Away—an Abstract Art exhibition, Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing, China The 14th PHotoESPAÑA Festival, Madrid, Spain Community of Tastes: Chinese Contemporary Art Since 2000, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Paulo, Brazil 2010A Decade Long Exposure: The Central Academy of Fine Arts and Chinese Contemporary Photography, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China From Modernity to Modernization: Chinese Media Art since 1988, MK Gallery, Rotterdam, Netherlands Community of Tastes: Chinese Contemporary Art Since 2000, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile Back to the Future, Osage Gallery, Hong Kong Reshaping History: Chinart from 2000 to 2009, China National Conference Center, Beijing, China Post New Photo, Chamber Fine Art Gallery, Beijing, China Vision 2: The Future that Encompasses the Past—An Art Exchange Program between China and Taiwan, TKG+, Taiwan, China Looking through Film: Traces of Cinema and Self-Constructs in Contemporary Art, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen, China At the Crossroad – Contemporary Artworks from Collection of GDMoA National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan, China 2009TRAFFIC—Art Highway, Musée des Beaux-Arts et d’archéologie de Besançon, Besançon, France Time Versus Fashion, Kunstverein Nürtingen eV, Nürtingen, Germany The 3rd Guangzhou Photo Biennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China Spectacle—To Each His Own, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, China 2008Drawn in the Clouds—Asian Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland The 1st Mediations Biennale, Poznań, Poland EXQUISITE CORPSE: China Surreal, Gallery M97, Shanghai, China The 3rd Nanjing Triennial Exhibition—Reflective Asia, Nanjing Museum, Nanjing, China China Gold, Contemporary Chinese Art, Museum of Maillol, Paris, France 55 Days in Valencia: Chinese Art Meeting, Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Valencia, Spain La Cina è Vicina—China Next Door, Palazzo delle Arti, Napoli, Italy 2007New Photo—Ten Years, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China The First Today’s Documents 2007—Energy: Spirit • Body • Material, Beijing Today Art Museum, Beijing, China The 3rd Lianzhou International Photography Exhibition, Lianzhou, Guangzhou, China We Are Your Future: Special Project of the 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Art Center Winzavod, Moscow, Russia The 2nd Beijing International Film Festival (BiFF), Songzhuang Art Gallery, Beijing, China 2006All Look The Same? / Tuttiuguale? Art from China, Japan & Korea, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy La rivoluzione siamo noi, Isola Art Centre, Milan, Italy The 1st Festival Shadows: Cinéma Indépendent Chinois, Paris, France The 20th Fribourg International Film Festival, Fribourg, Switzerland Mycology: The Politics of Realism – A Case of Chinese Contemporary Art, Centro Cultural de Macau, Macau, China 2005The 2nd Guangzhou Triennial of Art, Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou, China Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark Berlin Asian-Pacific Film Festival, Berlin, Germany Irreality, Para Site, Hong Kong, China The 5th Asian Film Symposium & Inaugural Forum on Asian Cinema, The Substation Moving Images, Singapore City net Asia 2005, Seoul Museum of Art, South Korea Plato and His Seven Spirits, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China The 7th Asian Film Festival in Tours, Tours, France Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from The Sigg Collection, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland 2004Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, ICP and Asia Society, New York, United States The 5th Shanghai Biennale: Techniques of the Visible, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China Impakt Festival, Utrecht, Netherlands The 22nd Turin Film festival”, Turin, Italy 2003La Biennale di Venezia—50th International Art Exhibition: Zone of Urgency, Venice, Italy The 8th IFVA Awards: Asian New Force, Hong Kong short film and video Festival, Hong Kong, China Distance: A Collection of the Guangdong Museum of Art Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China The Fifth System: Public Art in the Age of Post-Planning – International Public Art Exhibition, Shenzhen, China The 10th Biennial of Moving Pictures, Geneva, Switzerland The Different Same, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China 2002The 4th Gwangju Biennale Exhibition—P_A_U_S_E, Gwangju, South Korea The 1st Guangzhou Triennial of Art, Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou, China Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China Under Construction: New Dimensions of Asian Art, The Japan Foundation Forum / Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 2001Contemporary Multimedia Art Festival, Hangzhou, China Asia Art Festival, Berlin, Germany The 1st Independent Film and Video Exhibition, Beijing, China 2000Sovereignty & Beyond—Videos from Chinese Artists International Festival, Hong Kong, China 1999Multimedia Art Asia Pacific Festival, Singapore Post-Sense Sensibility: Alien Bodies and Delusion, Beijing, China The 1st China-Hong Kong International Video Art Festival”, Hong Kong, China Beijing—London: Revolutionary Capitals, London, United Kingdom 1997Demonstration of Video Art ‘97 China, Central Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Beijing, China
Awards
2012Credit Suisse Today Art Award
2010Academic Achievement Award of Reshaping History: Chinart from 2000 to 2009
2000Chinese Contemporary Art Award
Collections (selection)
BSI Art Collection, Switzerland
DSL Collection, France
Guangdong Museum of Art, China
Times Museum, China
Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Spain
Hood Museum of Art, USA
Kadist Art Foundation, France and USA
White Rabbit Contemporary Chinese Art Collection, Australia
M+ Museum, Hong Kong
Sigg Collection, Switzerland
