Zeng Fanzhi

Zeng Fanzhi was born in Wuhan, China in 1964, and lives and works in Beijing. Solo museum exhibitions include Zeng Fanzhi: Idealism, Singapore Art Museum (2007); Zeng Fanzhi, Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne de Metropole (2007); Zeng Fanzhi, Fundación Godia, Barcelona (2009); and 2010: Zeng Fanzhi, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai (2010). Zeng’s work was the subject of a major retrospective at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in 2013–2014. In a specially commissioned exhibition at the Musée du Louvre in 2014, his painting From 1830 till now No. 4 (2014) was shown alongside Eugène Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People (1830). Zeng’s work was included in the 53^rd Venice Biennale (2009); The World Belongs to You, Palazzo Grassi, Venice (2011–2012); Passage to History: 20 Years of La Biennale di Venezia and Chinese Contemporary Art, Arsenale di Venezia and Museum of Contemporary Art Chengdu (2013); Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2013–2014); and Post Pop: East Meets West, Saatchi Gallery, London (2014–2015).