Artist
Chinese (Chengdu), 1981
Born in 1981 in Yantai, Shandong, China, Zhang Xiao graduated from the Department of Architecture and Design at Yantai University in 2005. He was a photojournalist for Chongqing Morning Post before 2009. Zhang won the Robert Gardner Fellow in Photography of Harvard University in 2018 and the Three Shadows Photography Award in 2010 with They series. He also received the second Hou Dengke Documentary Photography Award in 2009, The Photography Talent Award (France) in 2010 and the Prix HSBC pour la Photographie in 2011 with Coastline series. Zhang’s solo and group exhibitions, include “Shehuo”, Harvard University Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology; “The World in 2015” and “Civilization: The Way We Live Now”(Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art, Beijing); “Unfamiliar Familiarities”(Fotostiftung Schweiz ,Winterthur, Switzerland); “Photoquai”(Quai Branly Museum, Paris); “Apple”(Lianzhou Photography Museum, Guangdong); “Social Geography: Ten Journeys with a Camera”(Shanghai Centre of Photography); “Photography and Video Experiments in Southwestern China since 2000”(A4 Art Museum, Chengdu); “The Farm”(chi k11 Art Space, Shenyang), etc. Zhang currently lives and works in Chengdu city, Sichuan province, China.
