Zeng Fanzhi
Contemporary Chinese painter, Zeng Fanzhi, is best known for his Expressionist and psychologically probing portraits. He depicts human faces with vivid and lively brushworks that can at times border on abstraction. Having lived through the Cultural Revolution, Zeng often focuses on this experience in his work and critically explores the rapidly changing face of contemporary Chinese culture. Zeng studied painting at the Hubei Academy of Fine Art. In 2008 his painting Mask Series 1996 No.6 (1996) broke auction records and became the highest-grossing work by a contemporary Asian artist.
Selected Exhibitions
2010
Zeng Fanzhi: The Sublime, Union Temple
Zeng Fanzhi, Shanghai Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai
Zeng Fanzhi, The National Gallery of Foreign Art, Sofia, Bulgaria
2009
Zeng Fanzhi, Godia Fundation, Barcelona, Spain
Art Beijing 2009--Zeng Fanzhi, Art Fairs Agricultural Exhibition Centre of China, Beijing
Narcissus looks for Echo, Suzhou Museum, China
2008
Tai Ping You Xiang-Zeng Fanzhi, ShanghART Beijing
2007
Zeng Fanzhi, Musee d'art Moderne, Saint-Etienne Metropole, France
Zeng Fanzhi Idealism, National Art Museum, Singapore
Zeng Fanzhi 1989-2007, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
Collections
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
M+ Sigg Collection, Hong Kong
Long Museum, Shanghai
How Art Museum, Shanghai
Yuz Foundation, Jakarta, Indonesia
Allen Memorial Art Museum, US
Franks-Suss Collection, UK
He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen
Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangdong
DSL Collection, Beijing
Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation, Switzerland
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Uli Sigg Collection, Switzerland