San Gimignano
Beijing
Les Moulins
Habana
Roma
Sao Paulo
Paris
Zhuang Hui was born in 1963 in Yumen, Gansu Province, China. He left his hometown to study in Luoyang City at the age of thirteen and started to study painting by himself. In 1979, after graduating from high school, he became a worker at the state-run Luoyang No.1 Tractor Factory. In 1996, he moved to Beijing and became an artist.
Zhuang Hui's practice is rooted in the realities of lived existence and the prevailing cultural conditions, foregrounding and reflecting on bodily experience and individual consciousness. Working flexibly across multiple media, he continually tests the boundaries of artistic expression.
2023
The Journey Of An Autodidact, Drc No.12, Beijing, China
2021
Qilian Range, Redux, Galleria Continua, Beijing, China
2019
1650 B.C., New Century Art Foundation, Beijing, China
2017
A Shadowless Place, Lianzhou Museum of Photography, Lianzhou, China
Qilian Range, Galleria Continua, Beijing, China
2015
Zhuang Hui Solo Exhibition Project, OCAT Xi’an, Xi’an, China
2014
Zhuang Hui Solo Exhibition, Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing, CN
2009
Yumen 2006-2009: Photography Project Zhuang Hui and Dan’er, Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Beijing, CN
2003
Zhuang Hui: Ten Years, Courtyard Gallery, Beijing, CN
2026
Forever Tomorrow: Chinese Art Now, Auckland Art Gallery Toi O Tāmaki, Auckland, New Zealand
The China Moment. Contextualizing Individualism In Chinese Contemporary Art, Kunstverein Kassel, Kassel, Germany
2025
Artist’s Treat, Former Site Of Lagena Primary School, Shanghai, China
Dark Matter Ecology (Xuan Qi), Shanghai Bund Art Center, Shanghai, China
Self-Topography, Times Museum, Guangzhou, China
Paint For Life, Aranya Art Center, Beidaihe, China
2024
Go With The Flow (River Stories), Fotografiska Shanghai, Shanghai, China
In Lüshun, Lüshun Museum, Dalian, China
Pulse Of The Hinterland — The 4th Xinjiang-China International Art Biennial, Xinjiang Art Museum, Urumqi, China
2023
Tumbleweed: Migration And Residence Of Northwest Artists, Museum Of Contemporary Art Yinchuan, Yinchuan, China
2022
Sulaimani : Nomandology Of Ulus, Power Station Of Art (Psa), Shanghai, China
A Window Suddenly Opens: Contemporary Photography In China, Hirshhorn Museum And Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., USA
Body Cosmos: The Art Of Living Together, Xie Zilong Photography Museum, Changsha, China
2021
Und Anderes Denk In Anderer Zeit, Oct Boxes Art Museum, Shunde, China
2020
Duration: Chinese Art In Transformation, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China
Les Flots écoulés Ne Reviennent Pas à La Source, Jumièges Abbey, Seine-Maritime, France
2019
Looking West: Photography Of Northwest China Since 1870, Museum Of Contemporary Art Yinchuan, Yinchuan, China
Now Is The Time: 2019 Wuzhen Contemporary Art Exhibition, Wuzhen, Zhejiang, China
The Curation Workshop – Exhibition Curation And Design, Oct Art & Design Gallery, Shenzhen, China
2018
After Nature, Ucca Dune Art Museum, Qinhuangdao, China
The 2nd Yinchuan Biennale: Starting From The Desert — Ecologies On The Edge, Museum Of Contemporary Art Yinchuan, Yinchuan, China
2017
Simultaneous Eidos — Guangzhou Image Triennial, Guangdong Museum Of Art, Guangzhou, China
2nd Changjiang International Photography and Video Biennale, Chongqing, China
2016
Digging a Hole in China, OCAT Xi’an，Xi’an, China
Go West-Close to the Local Society, MOCA YINCHUAN, YinChuan, China
The Shadow Never Lies, Shanghai 21st Century Minsheng Art Museum (M21)，Shanghai, China
The Decameron - BMCA Documenting Art, Caochangdi People's Bathhouse，Beijing, China
2015
The System of Objects, Minsheng Art Museum，Shanghai, China
Stereognosis Zone, Redtory Museum of Contemporary Art, Guangzhou, China
Grain to Pixel - A Story of Photography in China, Shanghai Center of Photography, Shanghai, China
Designing View Beyong The Earth - The First Xi’an Contemporary art Document Exhibition, Xi’an Art Museum, Xi’an, China
The Civil Power, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China
Nonfigurative, Shanghai 21st Century Minsheng Art Museum (M21)， Shanghai, China
We May Have Met Before - Chinese Contemporary Photography， Foam Amsterdam, Amsterdam，Holland
2014
Staging Encounters 2014, Lian Zhou Foto Festival, China
New Works 1, Shenzhen, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen, China
Civilisation Round 2: Yulin, OCAT Xi’an, Xi’an, China
Three shadows first experimental image open exhibition, Three Shadows Photography Art Center , Beijing, China
Harmonious Society - Asia Triennial Manchester 2014, Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art, Manchester, United Kingdom
Unlived by What is Seen, Galleria Continua, Beijing, China
Hans van Dijk:5000 Names, UCCA, Beijing, China
China• 8, Folkwang Museum, Bonn, Germany
2012
The Unseen - The Exhibition of the Fourth Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Reactivation - 9th Shanghai Biennale, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
Magnanimity Collection of Atypical Works by 21 Chinese Artists, White Box Museum of art , Beijing, China
2011
You are not a gadget, Pékin Fine Arts, Beijing, CN
Magic Space, Today Art Museum, Beijing, CN
The Couple Show, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, CN
Guan Xi: Contemporary Chinese Art, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, CN
The Second Academic Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Prints Print •Concept, Today Art Museum, Beijing, CN
Poster Exhibition, Top Contemporary Center, Shanghai, CN
2010
Re-Imagining the Real Photography Show, Yuz Art Museum, Jakarta, ID
REM(A)INDERS, Galleria Continua, Beijing, CN
Four Dimensions -Contemporary Photography from Mainland China, Hong Kong & Macao, Hong Kong Arts Center, Hongkong, CN
Displacement, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, North Carolina, US
The River Project, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Campbelltown, NSW, AU
2009
Allegorical Aftermath, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai, CN
Homesickness: Memory and Virtual Reality, T.Space, Beijing, CN
GD Art and Technology, National Gallery, Bologna, IT
Displacement, Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, Utah, US
2008
Subtlety, Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing, CN
Displacement, Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Chicago, US
New World Order – Contemporary Installation Art Photography From China, The Groninger Museum, NL
2007
THE REAL THING - Contemporary Art From China, Tate Modern, Liverpool, UK
New Photo—Ten Years, Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Beijing, CN
Black White Grey—A Conscious Cultural Stance, Today Art Museum, Beijing, CN
2006
Continuous Dialogue, Galleria Continua, Beijing, CN; Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, IT
2005
Urban Culture, CP Biennale 2005, Jakarta, ID
About Beauty, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, DE
Urban Skin-Researches In Possibility of Images of Contemporary City, Tap Seac Gallery, Macao, CN; Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, CN
Convergence at E116° /N40 °, Beijing 2005 – International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing, CN
Mahjong, Chinesische Gegenwartskunst, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, CH
2004
Dingpolitik - Atmospheres of Democracy, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, DE
Inside and Out, Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon, FR
Painting Works, Taikang Space, Beijing, CN
Attack! Kunst und Krieg in den Zeiten der Medien - Kunsthalle Wien (Museumsquartier),Vienna, AT
Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video From China, ICP ( International Center of Photography ), New York City. Smart Museum of Art, Chicago. Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, US
A I'Ouest du Sud de l'Est - L'année de la Chine, National Contemporary Art Center, Nice, FR
The Chinese-Chinese Photography and Video Art, Wolfsburg Museum, DE
Le Moine et le Démon, Musée d’art contemporain de Lyon, FR
2003
It is I, BTAP (Beijing Tokyo Art Projects), Beijing, CN
Alternative Modernity, X-Ray Art Center, Beijing, CN
Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
A Strange Heaven: Contemporary Chinese Photography, Rudolfinum Art Museum, Prague, CZ
Left Wing-Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Left Bank Communes, Beijing, CN
2002
Art & Economy, Gemeinschaftsprojekt mit dem Siemens Arts Program, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, DE
Run, Jump, Crawl, Walk, East Modem Art Centre, Beijing ,CN
The First Guangzhou Triennale, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, CN
Contemporary Chinese Art Exhibition, Museum Duisburg, Germany Sydney Museum of Art, AU
Kaleidoscope – Latest Works by Contemporary Chinese Artist, Art Beatus Gallery, Vancouver, CA
2001
Abstraction and Decoration, Beyeler Art Museum, Basel, CH
Impermanence - New Concept Video Work, Art Beatus Gallery, Vancouver, CA
Hot Pot: Contemporary Chinese Art, Kustnemes Hus, Oslo, NO
In Contradiction, Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, FI
Echo from Unstable Age – Collection Exhibition, Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon, FR
Next Generation, Galerie Loft, Paris, FR
2000
Lost Identity, Contemporanea Arti e Culture, Milan, IT; Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, FR
Hidasi lda, Zhuang Hui, The Agency – Contemporary Art-Lt, London, UK
From Inside The Body, ISE Art Center, New York, US
Fireland is …, Leeuwarden Art Museum, Leeuwarden, NL
Wide Gap, Gasunie’s Art Center Amsterdam, NL
Woman as Subject, Courtyard Gallery, Beijing, CN
Our Chinese Friends, ACC Gallery, Bauhaus University, DE
1999
Revelation Series: Falling A part Together, Canvas International Art Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
Representing the People, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, UK; Midland Art Centre, Birmingham, UK
The 1st Fukuoka Art Triennale, Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, Fukuoka, JP
Salt of the Earth, Courtyard Gallery, Beijing, CN
Portraits - 6th Foto Festival Naarden, Naarden, NL
48th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale / Biennale di Venezia, Venice, IT
Lost Chain, Ken Site Art Museum, Bern, CH
Love: Chinese Contemporary Photography & Video, International Arts Festival-Tachikawa, Tokyo, JP
Chinese Contemporary Art, Ghent Art Center, BE
Revolutionary City-Beijing in London, LCA Contemporary Art Research Center,London, UK
Synopsis of China, OTSO Art Museum, Estes, FI
Platform 99, Amsterdam, NL
Beauty Like Materialism—The New Conceptual Art 99’’China, East China University of Teachers Gallery, Shanghai, CN
1998
International Foto –Triennial Esslingen, Galerie der Stadt Esslingen, DE
Chinese Art, Galerie Urs Meile, Lucerne, CH
It’s Me ! Workers’ Cultural Palace, Forbidden City, Beijing , CN
ZHI YI of Image - Chinese Photographers of Conceptual Art Exhibition, Central University of Fine Arts Gallery, Shanghai, CN
Confusion, Amsterdam, NL
7 Contemporary Chinese Artists, Nikolas Sonne Fine Arts, Berlin, DE
1997
Contemporary Photography from the People‘s Republic of China, NBK Art Center, Berlin; Kunstverein, Berlin; Staeditsche Kunstsmmlungen; Kunsthalle, Darmstadt, DE
The Dream of China, Yanhuang Art Museum, Beijing, CN
Chinese Photography and Video, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, US
