ZHANG XIAO
b. 1981, ChinaBorn in 1981 in Yantai city, Shandong province, China, Zhang Xiao graduated from the Department of Architecture and Design at Yantai University in 2005. Before becoming a photography artist in 2009, he was a photojournalist for Chongqing Morning Post. Zhang won 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 his ‘Coastline’ series. Zhang’s work has been widely exhibited in China and overseas in recent years. Zhang currently lives and works in Chengdu city, Sichuan province, China.
Works at A Thousand Plateaus Art Space
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