1968 Born in Nanchong, Sichuan Province, China
1990 Graduated from Sichuan Academy of Fine Art, Chongqing
Lives and works in Beijing and Chengdu.
Solo Exhibition
2012
“SEEING LANDSCAPE”, KunstCentret Silkeborg Bad / Art Centre Silkeborg Bad
2011
“Zhao Nengzhi - Real Sense”, Museum of Changsha, Hunan, China
2008
“Zhao Nengzhi's Works 1992-2008”, Art Side Gallery, Seoul KOREA
“INTIMATE TREND－Painting from Sichuan and Taiwan”, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts
“Images Of Feelings - Zhao Nengzhi Solo Exhibition”, Switzerland Art Seasons, Switzerland
“Confessional Figuration - Zhao Nengzhi Solo Exhibition”, China Square, NY
2007
“Phantom” Zhao Nengzhi Solo Exhibition, Z-art Center, Shanghai
“Hallucination”, Zhao Nengzhi Solo Exhibition, Tang Contemporary Art, Bangkok, Thailand
“Hallucination” Zhaonengzhi Solo Exhibition, Tang Contemporary Art, Bangkok, Beijing
2006
“Transforming” Zhao Nengzhi Solo Exhibition, Zhu Qizhan Museum, Shanghai
“Zhao Nengzhi Solo Exhibition”, Art Seasons, Singapore
“FACES” - Zhao Nengzhi, L.A.Galerie, Frankfurt
2005
“Open your Mouth Open your Eyes Wide”, Zhao Nengzhi Solo Exhibition, LA Gallery, Beijing
2004
“Fragments of Memory“ Zhao Nengzhi’s Work on Paper, Soobin Gallery, Singapore
2000
“Expression”, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai
2001
“Zhao Nengzhi”, London, UK
Group Exhibition
2011
2011 Art Changsha, Hunan Museum
Unable Absence-Winshare Contemporary Art Display, Wenshare Museum, Chengdu
Relation, Cross the Duplicity, Artside Gallerry, Beijing
2010
Writers - Nanjing Biennale, Art Museum of Jiangshu, Nanjing
Reshaping history-China Art from 2000 to 2009 Research Representational Painting, Time Museum, Beijing
2009
‘Time Lag’, Linda Gallery, Beijing
‘Blue house-Character of the Dialect’, Blue House Museum, Chengdu
‘Polar Tension’, Qisheng Art Museum, Chengdu
‘Reflective’, Wall Museum, Beijing
‘Community Community’, Songzhuang Museum, Beijing
2008
Corresponding--Nanjing.Chengdu, Nanjing Qinghe Contemporary Art Museum, Nanjing
Telltale Paintings, Dialogue space
INTIMATE TREND－Painting from Sichuan and Taiwan, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts
Case Studies Of Artists in Art History and Art Criticism SZ Art Center, Beijing
Beyond Socialist Realism Chosun Ilbo Museum, Seoul, Korea
Time-Lag - the New Force of Chinese Contempoary Art, Magee Art Gallry,Madrid
The Sichuan Movement-New Paintings From China, National Museum of Indonesia, Jakata
Face To China, Akureyri Museum, Iceland
Face to face, Madrid
2007
China’s Neo Paintin, A Triumph Over Images, Shanghai Museum, Shanghai
THE POWER OF THE UNIVERSE –Exhibition of Frontier Contemporary Chinese Art, Asia Art Center, Beijing
Reconstpuot the World Image, K Gallery Chengdu
“Revolution”, China Squqre, NY
“Black, White and Gray”, Today Art Museum, Beijing
“From New Figurative Image to New Painting” Tang Contemporary Art Beijing
“Word of Mouth from four corners ”, Guiyang art Biennale Exhibition 3th, Guiyang Museum, Guiyang, China
“Giant in illusion” - Submission of Artworks to the Korea-China Contemporary Art, Korea
"New South-West Contemporary Painting Exhibition", Chengdu, China
“Chinese Whispers”, Osage Kwun Tong, Hong Kong
“Starting from the Southwest” Exhibition of Contemporary Art in Southwest China, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
2006
“Z-art Center Opening”, Z-art Center, Shanghai
“Body Heng”, Contemporary Art Center, Nanjing
“Beyond Dimension” Chinese New Painting, SQUART Gallery of Contemporary Art
“Unclear and Clearness”, Seoul, Korea
“Basel Art Fair”, Basel, Switzerland
“Cold Energy”, Pyo Gallery, Beijing
“The Naked Truth”, Tang Contemporary Art, Bangkok, Thailand
“The Self-Made Generation” Retrospective of New Chinese Painting 2005, ZENDAI MoMA, Shanghai
“The Power of Art on Paper”, Art Seasons, Beijing
2005
“Grounding Reality”, Seoul Art Center, Korea
“Ten Eras Ten Colors”, SOKA Contemporary Space, Beijing
“Mahjong” Chinsieche Gegenwartkunst Aus Der Sammlung Sigg, Berne Museum,Switzerland
“Mc1 Biennale Internationale D’Art Contemporain Chinos Montpellier”, Montpellier, France
“Archaeology of The Future” The Second Triennial Of Chinese Art, Nanjing Museum, Nanjing
“Always to the Front” China Contemporary Art, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei
“Chendu Biennial’, Chendu Modern Museum, Chengdu
2004
“2004 in Chengdu”, Blue House Art Center, Chengdu
“4+1” Chinese Contemporary Art, Asia Art Center, Taipei
“Live in Chengdu”, Shenzhen Museum, Shenzhen
“China Avant-garde” (Part VI), LIMN Gallery, San Francisco
2003
“Interplay” Chinese Contemporary Art, Jakarta
“Image of Images”, Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen
“New Generation and Post-revolution”, Yan Huang Art Museum, Beijing
2002
“The Youth Cruelty Painting”, Shanghai, Beijing
“International Contemporary Art Fair Zurich”, Zurich
“Chinese New Idea Photograph Art”, Pingyao, Shanxi
“On The Edge of The Millennium: New Art from China”, New York And London
2001
“GELY DIFFERENT” Big Works by 11 Chinese Avant-garde Artists, Singapore
“ON Boys and Girls”, Kunming and Singapore
“Basel Art Fair”, Basel, Switzerland
2000
“Expression” Works by Artists from China, Hong Kong, Taipei
“At the New Century” 1979-1999 China Art Invitation Show, Modem Art Museum, Chengdu
“The Chengdu Movement”, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1999
“International Art Exhibition”, Featherstone, Boston, USA
“Liberation”, London, UK
“The Beauty of Materialism”, Huadong Normal College Gallery, Shanghai
“99’Academic Exhibition”, Upriver Gallery, Chengdu
1998
“Black and White”, China Contemporary, London, UK
“Three Yong Faces”, Hanat Gallery, Hong Kong
“Confused”- Reckoning with the Future Contemporary Chinese Paintings & Photography, Amsterdam, Netherlands
“Kunst RAL98”, Amsterdam, Netherlands
“Christie’s Asian Avan-garde”, London, UK
1996
“Best New Artist”, Awarded by Jiangshu Art Monthly
1994
“Fragment”, Chongqing
1993
“Chinese Oil Painting Biennale Exhibition”, China National Gallery, Beijing