VIVIEN ZHANG

 
 
Born 1990, Beijing; lives and works in London.
 

Education
2012-2014 MA in Painting, Royal College of Art (London)
2008-2012 BA in Fine Art, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL (London)

Solo exhibitions
2024 (upcoming) Flat Earth, Pilar Corrias (London)
2022 undo undo undo, Pilar Corrias (London)
2021 Lorem Ipsum, Long March Space (Beijing)
2020 New Peril, TANK Shanghai (Shanghai)
  Soft Borders, Lawrie Shabibi (Dubai)
2018 Codescape, Long March Space (Beijing)
  Uzumaki, House of Egorn (Berlin)
2017 Vivien Zhang (curated by Sarah McCrory), Monteverdi (Castiglioncello del Trinoro)
2016 Cavity Drift, Galerie Huit (Hong Kong)
2015 Vivien Zhang | The Chadwell Award Exhibition, PSW (London)

Selected group exhibitions
2024 Dream Screen, Leeum Museum of Art (Seoul)
  Abstraction (re)creation, Le Consortium (Dijon)
  Nature Painting Nature, curated by Lydia Yee, Pilar Corrias (London)
  Boundless Reverie, K11 MUSEA (Hong Kong)
   
2023 Duo presentation: Rirkrit Tiravanija and Vivien Zhang, Paris+ par Art Basel, Pilar Corrias (Paris)
  Dust Piles Us Up, curated by Sun Yitian, SUHE HAUS (Shanghai)
  Steadfastly Revise for the Standards in Nonproductive Construction, curated by Evonne Jiawei Yuan, Long March Space (Beijing)
  Let The Sunshine In, Pilar Corrias (London)
   
2022 Barbe À Papa, curated by Cédric Fauq, CAPC (Bordeaux)
  The Infinite Conversation, curated by Zhu Zhu, 1st Beijing Biennial (Beijing)
  The Disconnected Generation, Song Art Museum (Beijing)
   
2021 Mixing It Up: Painting Today, Hayward Gallery (London)
Ex Roma V, the Abbey Awards exhibition of past award holders, APT Gallery (London)
   
2020 after image, Mamoth (London)
  Fortune Teller: The Undefinable Youth Project I, Wanying Art Museum (Shijiazhuang)
  L'Heure Bleue (Part II), PLUS-ONE Gallery and Gallery Sofie Van de Velde (Antwerp)
   
2019 Echo Chamber, PLUS-ONE Gallery (Antwerp)
  Generation Y, Platform Foundation (London)
  To Cite A Body, Sluice (London)
   
2018 BE:YO:ND, PLUS-ONE Gallery (Antwerp)
  Bone Memory, Lychee One (London)
   
2017 Digital Natives: Vivien Zhang and Thomas van Linge, The RYDER (London)
  High Noon (curated by Adrienne Drake, Sarah Linford, and Donatella Saroli), Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma (Rome)
  Referencing Alexander Calder, Eli Klein Gallery (New York)
  June Mostra, British School at Rome (Rome)
  All As Long Distance Neighbours (curated by Marialuisa Pastò), SOYUZ (Pescara)
  March Mostra, British School at Rome (Rome)
   
2016 Trembling Surfaces, Long March Space (Beijing)
  South of Meaning: Travis Jeppesen and Vivien Zhang, House of Egorn (Berlin)
  Beyond Borders (with UNICEF Next Generation), Blain|Southern (London)
  December Mostra, British School at Rome (Rome)
  Cue Collision, House of Egorn London Lounge (London)
  Sunny Side Up!, Rook & Raven (London)
  PAPER | PUBLICATION | PERFORMANCE, Lychee One (London)
   
2015 Deeper Bite: Teresita Dennis and Vivien Zhang, Lychee One (London)
  Repeat | Spiral, Renke Gallery (Hangzhou)
  Visions from a New Generation (commissioned by Swarovski), Lane Crawford (Shanghai)
  East London Painting Prize, The Rum Factory (London)
  Mapping in Memory, House of Egorn (Berlin)
   
2014 Laurence Owen and Vivien Zhang, Rook & Raven (London)
  Saatchi New Sensations, Victoria House (London)
   
2013 ASYAAF (Asian Students and Young Artists Art Festival), Cultural Station 284 (Seoul)
   
2012 The Boat of 2012, Today Art Museum (Beijing)

Artist residencies
2016-17 British School at Rome: Abbey Award Scholarship (Rome)
2014-15 Chadwell Award (London)
2013 Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris)
   
Site-specific projects
2019-20 Appointmented by the Contemporary Art Society, signature artwork for Quintain's Wembley Park development
2015 Appointmented by Futurecity and the Royal College of Art: site-specific artwork for Riverlight 2, Vauxhall

Teaching
2024 Visiting artist, Arts University Bournemouth (Bournemouth)
2021-23 Associate Lecturer, Camberwell College of Art, UAL (London)
2021-23 Visiting artist, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL (London)
2021 Visiting artist, University of Brighton (Brighton)
2020 Visiting artist, Royal College of Art (London)
2019 Visiting artist, Turps art school (London)

Awards
2017 Listmaker, Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia: The Arts
2016 Awardee, Abbey Award Scholarship for the British School at Rome
2015 Shortlisted, East London Painting Prize 2015
2014 Awardee, Chadwell Award
2014 Shortlisted, Saatchi New Sensations 2014
2014 Winner, Riverlight Award (award by St James Group, the Royal College of Art and Futurecity)
2009 Awardee, Andor Scholarship, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL

Selected press and publications
2022 Xinfeng Jiang, "Art Feature: Monologue", GQ China (Issue November 2022): 76.
2022 Han Xia, "Oriental Verve: Vivien Zhang", Wallpaper* China (Issue October 2022): 158-159.
2022 Arya and Daqi, "Vivien Zhang", Bazaar Art China (Issue September 2022): 116-119.
2022 Yiren Shen, “张月薇:当艺术成为穿越时空褶皱的'通行证'”, artnet (China), https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/OBpIbd-rJClyoJ4kCEyZNA, 17 June 2022.
2022 Charlotte Brook, “A Bigger Picture: Vivien Zhang”, Harper's Bazaar (Issue May 2022): 38, 80.
2021 Mixing It Up: Painting Today, Hayward Gallery, 8 September – 12 December 2021. [Exhibition Catalogue]. London: Hayward Gallery Publishing.
2021 Laura Cumming, “Mixing It Up: Painting Today review – a showcase of devotion to an age-old medium”, The Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/sep/12/mixing-it-up-painting-today-review-hayward-gallery-london, 12 Sep 2021.
2021 Gerald Li and Kevin Ma, editor, “Vivien Zhang: The Symbol, The Contrast”, ELLE Decoration (China) (Issue 204, September 2021): 60-63.
2020 Ruhui Wang, “Vivien Zhang: Carte Blanche”, Numéro Art (China) (Issue November 2020): 198-207.
2020 Lauren Long, “Reports: Vivien Zhang”, ArtAsiaPacific (Issue May-June 2020): 23.
2020 Vanessa Murrell and Martin Mayorga, “Vivien Zhang: creating a personal ecology of motifs”, DATEAGLE ART, https://dateagle.art/vivien-zhang-interview/, Mar 2020.
2018 Irene Ramón, “Vivien Zhang – Mechanical vs Unique”, METAL magazine, http://metalmagazine.eu/bi/post/interview/vivien-zhang-mechanical-vs-unique, March 2018.
2018 Avita Guo and Rachel Jiu, editor, “Vintage Cyber Girl”, VOGUE me (China) (Issue 292, October 2018): 98-99.
2017 Charlotte Jensen, “New Establishment: Vivien Zhang”, ELEPHANT magazine (Issue 30, Spring 2017): 74-77.
2017 “Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia: The Arts”, Forbes, https://www.forbes.com/30-under-30-asia/2017/the-arts/#61a618994bda, April 2017.
2016 “Hans Ulrich Obrist in Conversation About Inventing New Languages”, Sleek magazine, http://www.sleek-mag.com/2016/12/02/hans-ulrich-obrist-zhang-jeppesen-miralda/, November 2016.
2016 Alan Chan, “Exhibition Review: Vivien Zhang”, AM Post (Issue 119, March/April 2016): 34-35.
2016 “Her Orchestra: Vivien Zhang, an interview with Monica Chung”, ART.ZIP, (Issue 15, March 2016): 153-156.
2015 Yana Peel, “Changing Faces”, Porter Magazine (Winter 2015, Issue 12): 81.

Collections
Arts Council Collection (UK)
Aspen Art Collection (UK)
By Art Matters JNBY (China)
CC Foundation (China)
Museum Azman (Malaysia)
Chadwell Collection (UK)
De Heus-Zomer Collection (Netherlands)
Sammlung Goetz (Germany)
Groeninghe Art Collection (Belgium)
ICA Miami (USA)
Museum Inimá de Paula (Brazil)
K11 Art Foundation (China)
Long Museum (China)
Longlati Foundation (China)
Nanjo Art Museum (Japan)
Royal College of Art (UK)
Start Museum (China)
The Perimeter (UK)
White Rabbit Collection (Australia)
YAGEO Foundation (Taiwan)


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