Zhang Zhaohui 张朝晖

These recent ink wash explorations are based on over a decade of my personal art pedigree of monochrome works. By incorporating colour, I hope to effectively integrate the language of colour with the original ink wash structure, thereby enriching the expressive power of my artistic language. After all, this world of ours is a colourful one. Although colour is blended in here, I hope that my works will still seem to stretch freely and develop naturally, like life, innocent and full of vitality.

After thinking it over,I suddenly realised that ease and naturalness are humanity in nature and freedom in humanity: they represent the essence of traditional Chinese culture,as well as our intuitive experience of individual life, but we have been shielded from them for thousands of years. On this point, ancient and modern,Chinese and foreign, north, south, east, west, all accommodate each other, notleast in this current era of the global village.

Zhang Zhaohui

最近的水墨探索是在延续十多年的黑白灰的个人艺术谱系基础之上,融入色彩,希望让色彩语言体系与原来的水墨结构进行有效融合。从而丰富艺术语言的表现力。毕竟,世界是五彩缤纷的。虽然融合了色彩,也希望自己的作品依旧显得自由舒展,自然生发,如生命一样,漫烂而灿烂。

想来想去,我忽然发现,自由自在,自然而然,自然中的人性与人性中的自由,都是传统中华文化中的精华,也是个体生命的直觉体验,只是被屏蔽了数千年。 在这一点上, 古今中外,东西南北,都是相通的,何况在这样一个全球化的地球村时代。

张朝晖

CV 艺术经历

English
Zhang Zhaohui 张朝晖
  
1965Born in Beijing
1988Graduated from Nankai University, Tianjin, Museum Studies in Art History
1992Graduated from China Art Academy, Beijing, MA
1998Graduated from Bard College, Curatorial Studies in Contemporary Art, New York, MA degree
2003 – 2006Central Academy of Fine Arts, Contemporary Art and Culture, Ph.D. Program, Beijing
Present:Lives and works in New York and Beijing
  
Solo Exhibitions
  
2026Luminosity, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing
2025Light of Ink, Crossing Art, New York
2024Rethink Ink, Ink Brush, 456 Art Gallery, New York
2023Aurora, Meile Art Compound, Taiwan
 Enchantment, Megafield Art Space, Beijing
2019New Works, Red Gate Gallery
 Run: Zhang Zhaohui Ink, Donglai Mountain Art Museum, Massachusetts, US
2018Light of the Century, Bennet Media Studio, New York
 Warp and Weft Ink Painting, Zhao Zhaohui Contemporary Ink Art, Galway Art, Hangzhou
 Light and Illusion, Zhang Zhaohui Ink Painting, ICI LABAS, Beijing
 Sky Light and Cloud Shadow: Zhang Zhaohui, Anji Art Space, Shanghai
2015The Light of Heaven, Being 3 Gallery, Beijing
2014The Threads That Connect Us: Zhang Zhaohui Ink Painting, Red Gate Gallery
 Abstract Ink Painting, Tenpo Art Center, Taipei
 Mountains and Waters, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan
 Ink Light, Peninsula Hotel Beijing, Beijing
2013Light Infinity, Design Art Space, Beijing
 Dao of Nature, Hakkokai Gallery, Beijing
2012Narcissus Beyond the Myth, Being 3 Gallery, Beijing
 One and Mass, Light and Time Art Center, Beijing
2011Origin of Time, 800 Art Museum, Shanghai
1988Travel to Yellow River, Library of Nankai University, Tianjin
  
Group Exhibitions
  
20251989 – 2025 Autumn Auction Preview, Red Gate Gallery
 China, Nordart, Kunstwerk Carlshutte, Germany
 Linear Expression, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum
 Treasure House Art Fair, Michael Goedhuis Gallery, London
2024Supreme Paper, Tinglan Art Gallery, Shenyang
 Big Inkbrush, Tanghu Art Museum, Wuhan
 Abstract Intentions, Red Gate Gallery
 Trees: The Great Connector, Red Gate Gallery
 Awakening to Origins, Red Gate Gallery
 Big Inkbrush, Nantong Art Museum
 Supreme Paper, Zhi Art Gallery, Shenzhen
2023Black/white Quotes, Olal Art, Singapore
 Super-structuralism, Shangyuan Art Museum, Beijing
2022Countdown Series 4, Red Gate Gallery
 Fossils Dance, Spotts Art Gallery, Singapore
 Traces of Void Valley, Eastover Contemporary Art Space, USA
2021Memory Wall – Red Gate Gallery 30th Anniversary, Red Gate Gallery
 4th International Ink Painting Exhibition, Fukuoga Asian Art Museum
 Astro World/Exit Plan, KUN Art Museum, Beijing
 Mind Field, Time Art Museum, Wenzhou, China
 29th Asian Art, Kyushu Geibunkan Art & Culture Center, Japan
2020Step into Contemporary, Art Museum of Tsinghua University, Beijing
 Backlighting, Red Gate Gallery
2019The Way of Nature, ERYI Gallery, Beijing
 Autumn Fairy, Cool House, Beijing
2018New Contemporary Abstract Art, ENLAI Museum, Beijing
 A City to Wear 2.0, Research House for Asian Art, Chicago
 The Direction of Inkwash, Autumn Water Space, Shanghai
 Summer Holiday, Contemporary Art, ERYI Gallery, Beijing
 Annual Contemporary Art Documenta 2017, Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing
 Sense of Paper, Melting Point, Shanghai
2017The Polars, New Ink Wash Painting Series, Hong Kong
 Shanghai Urban Space Art Season, Shanghai
 Curitiba Biennale, Oscar Niemeyer Museum, Brazil
 Maximalism Ink, Common Art Center, Beijing
 Shoumo Dingxin, Chengdu Art Museum
 Fractal: Zhang Zhaohui / Zhu Yuze Ink and Wash, Beijing Media Art Center
 Red Gate on the Move, Red Gate Gallery
2016My Living Room – Red Gate 25th Anniversary, Red Gate Gallery
 Trio of Ink Abstraction, Research House for Asian Art, Chicago
 Black 3+4, Wanying Art Museum, Shijiazhuang
 4th China-Italia Biennale, Beijing
 Grand National Ink Art, Weihai Art Gallery, Shandong
2015Annual Contemporary Art Documenta 2014, Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing
 In Riotous Profusion – The New Possibilities of Ink Art, Beijing, Brussels, Chicago, Taiwan
 Abstract Art and its Chinese Reference, ARS Space, Beijing
 3rd China-Italia Biennale, Turin
 Chinese Contemporary Art, Abbey Art Center, Naples, Italy
20142th Biennale China-Italia, 798 Art Zone, Beijing
 International Contemporary Art, Art Museum of Nanjing University of Arts, Nanjing
 Nanjing International Art Festival, Nanjing International Expo Center, Nanjing
 Flowing Ink Art: Chinese Ink Art Painting Biennial, Time Art Museum, Beijing
 Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Abstract Art, Today Art Museum, Beijing
2013Great Wall Art Festival, Beijing
 New Beijing Genre of Art Festival, Wenda Gallery, Beijing
 Nord Art Festival, Kunstwerk Carlshütte Büdelsdorf, Germany
 Five Feelings, COART Festival, Lijiang, China
 Because: Mountain, Imagine Gallery, Beijing
2012Serene Scent: New Ink Painting, Red Gate Gallery
 1st Milan Biennale of Sino – Italian Art, Milan
 Ink Painting from China, Kyoto Art Museum, Japan
 Documentaries of Chinese Performance Art 2012, Macao Museum of Art
 Linzhou Ink Painting, Linzhou Art Museum
 Narcissus Beyond the Myth, Being 3 Gallery, Beijing
 New Chinese Currency, Ethan Cohan Fine Art, New York
 Take Out, Varley Gallery of Art, Toronto
 Ink Painting Biennale, Dafen Art Museum, Shenzhen
 Mind Natural, DYJ Lifestyle Gallery, Beijing
2011Ink – Brush Painting from China, Miami Art Fair, USA
 Ink – Painting No.1, Duolun Art Museum, Shanghai
 10th Ink Painting Artist Story, Duolun Art Museum, Shanghai
 10th Pucheon International Performance Festival, Seoul
2010New Media Art Festival 798, Beijing
 Nord Art Festival, Kunstwerk Carlshütte Büdelsdorf, Germany
2009Fantasy, Sunshine Art Center, Beijing
 360 Degree Studio Rouge, Shanghai
 60-70-80 Chinese Contemporary Art Chateau de Tours, France
 Erotic Make Shandong Oil Painting Gallery, Jinan
 You & Me, Joey Chang Art, Beijing
 Water & Color, Today’s Art Museum, Beijing
2004Manufactured Happiness, UTS Art Museum, Sydney
2003Bare Androgyny, 798 Art Zone, Beijing
2002New Urbanism, Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou
20010’C Project, Bridge Art Center, Beijing
1998Where Heaven and Earth Meet, Bard College, Hessel Art Museum, New York
1992Artists affiliated to Cultural Administration, National History Museum, Beijing
  
Fellowship and Grants
  
1996Asian Cultural Council
1998Curatorial Studies
2004Asia Link
20141st Nanjing International Art Festival, Silver Medal
  
Public Collections
  
Art Institute of Chicago
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan
The Macao Museum of Art
Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing
Deji Art Museum, Nanjing
Avant-Garde Contemporary Art Center, Jiangsu
West Lake Art Museum, Hangzhou
Baijia Lake Art Museum, Nanjing
Asian Art Research House, Chicago
Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA
AKyushu Geibunkan Art & Culture Center, Japan
Eastover Art center, MA, USA
Chinese
Zhang Zhaohui 张朝晖
  
1965生于北京
1988南开大学历史系博物馆专业,文学学士.
1995中国艺术研究院研究生院(导师水天中),艺术硕士
1998美国纽约巴德学院当代艺术研究中心,艺术硕士
2003 – 2006中央美术学院博士生(导师潘公凯)
目前生活和工作于纽约和北京
  
个人展览
 
2026光亮,红门画廊,北京
2025水墨之光, Crossing Art, 纽约
2024水墨再思考,456画廊, 纽约
2023极光,美乐艺术创意园,台湾
 墨光魅影,兆域艺术空间,北京
2019张朝晖新作展,红门画廊,北京
 润:张朝晖水墨,东来山庄美术馆,马萨诸塞,美国
2018世纪之光:张朝晖个展, Bennet Media Studio, 纽约
 水墨经纬:张朝晖当代水墨艺术展,高维艺术,杭州
 光与幻:张朝晖水墨展, ICI LABAS艺栈,北京
 天光云影:张朝晖作品展,安簃艺术空间,上海
2015间:天上的光,个人展览,北京在3画廊
2014千丝万缕:张朝晖水墨个展,红门画廊,北京
 抽象水墨个人展览,天宝艺术中心,台湾
 山和水:个人展览, 福冈亚洲美术馆, 日本福冈
 水墨之光:个人展览,王府半岛酒店,北京
2013光无限:个人展览,大森艺术空间,北京
 自然之道:张朝晖个人展览,八交界画廊,北京
2012神话之上的自恋怔:个人展览,在三画廊,北京
 一与多:个人展览,光与时光艺术中心,北京
2011时间的起源,800号美术馆,上海
1988沿着黄河 – 个人艺术展览,南开大学图书馆,天津
  
联合展览
 
2025中国艺术项目,北方艺术节,德国
 线性,至美术馆,深圳
 宝库艺术博览会,阁士豪画廊,伦敦
 水墨之光,超越画廊,纽约
 1989 – 2025 秋季拍卖预览,红门画廊,北京
2024大墨有风,汤湖美术馆,武汉
 水墨演义/节气,东来山庄美术馆,麻塞诸塞州
 纸上/纸上,庭斓美术馆,沈阳
 抽象意象,红门画廊,北京
 树:万物互联,红门画廊,北京
 觉醒溯源,红门画廊,北京
 大墨有风,南通美术馆,江苏
 纸上/至上,至美术馆,深圳
2023黑白语录,更+当代画廊,新加坡
 内在凝视,东来山庄美术馆,美国
 超结构主义,上苑艺术馆, 北京
2022倒计时系列 4,红门画廊
 太古石的舞痕, SPOTTS 美术馆,新加坡
 空谷寻踪,东来山庄美术馆,美国
 大墨有风,邯郸美术馆,中国
2021记忆墙 – 红门画廊30周年展,红门画廊
 第四届国际水墨画展,亚洲美术馆,福冈,日本
 29届亚洲国际美术展,九州文化艺术中心,日本
 天体旅行,KUN美术馆,北京
 心念力场,年代美术馆,温州
 南湖东岸艺术展,而已画廊,北京
2020逆光,红门画廊
 进入当代,清华大学美术馆,北京
2019自然之道,而已画廊,北京
 秋天童话,酷趣屋,北京
2018新当代抽象艺术大展,恩来美术馆,北京
 芝城之练,亚洲艺术研究所,芝加哥
 水墨何向,秋水空间,上海
 暑假-而已之夏,当代艺术联展,而已美术馆,北京
 中国当代艺术年鉴展(2017),民生现代美术馆,北京
 纸感熔点,跨年邀请展,上海
2017极地:新水墨系列展,第三届水墨艺博, 香港
 Susas: 上海城市空间艺术季,上海
 库里蒂巴国际双年展,奥斯卡尼迈耶艺术博物馆,巴西
 水墨三人展,北京共同艺术中心
 守墨鼎新,成都美术馆
 分形:张朝晖/朱雨泽水墨二人展,北京梅迪亚艺术中心
 红门 – 继往开来,红门画廊
2016朗舍 – 红门画廊二十五周年展,红门画廊
 水墨三人行,亚洲艺术研究所,芝加哥
 黑,万营艺术中心,石家庄
 第四届中意双年展,北京
 水墨大展,威海市美术馆
2015中国当代艺术文献展2014,民生美术馆,北京
 水墨演义,当代艺术国际巡回展,北京/布鲁塞尔/芝加哥/台北
 抽象与意境,缤纷美术馆开馆展,缤纷美术馆,北京
 第三届意中双年展,都灵
 中国当代艺术展,修道院艺术中心,那不勒斯,意大利
2014第二届中意双年展,798艺术工厂,北京
 内销/外包:国际当代艺术展,南京艺术学院美术馆,南京
 南京国际美术节艺术大展,国际展览中心,南京
 中国当代水墨邀请展,时代美术馆,北京
 中国抽象艺术邀请展,今日美术馆,北京
2013长城艺术节,北京
 新京派首届艺术展览,文达画廊,北京
 北方艺术节, 德国
 五种感觉COART艺术现场,丽江
 远眺近观:中外艺术家四人展览,想象画廊,北京
2012丽水国际艺术节中国当代水墨六人展,韩国
 水之道:当代水墨邀请展览,感叹号画廊,北京
 清境 – 水墨展,红门画廊,北京
 中日艺术交流展,北京
 米兰双年展,米兰
 中国水墨,京都艺术博物馆,日本
 以身观身:中国行为艺术文献展览,澳门艺术博物馆,澳门
 林州中国水墨展,林州,中国河南
 十一届PUCHEON国际行为艺术节,首尔,韩国
 国际水墨艺术双年展,大芬美术馆,深圳
 打包:华人新艺术,曼克汉姆博物馆,多伦多
 ART STAGE 艺术博览会,新加坡
 中国新动态,伊森画廊,纽约
 神话之上的自恋怔,在三画廊,北京
2011新历史,宋庄艺术节,上上美术馆,北京
 第十届OPNE国际行为艺术节,上海800号美术馆
 PUCHEON国际行为艺术节,首尔,韩国
 当代水墨十个案,多伦美术馆,上海
 当代水墨NO 1,多伦美术馆,上海
 中国当代水墨艺术,美国迈阿密艺术博览会
2010北方艺术节,杜塞尔多夫,德国
 燕博格艺术节,河北燕博格艺术博物馆
 798 新媒介艺术节,北京
2009情色制造,山东油画院,济南
 360 度,六岛艺术中心,上海
 60-70-80,近代史,城堡美术馆,图尔,法国
 镜界,太阳艺术中心,北京
 你和我,朝艺堂,北京
 林州水墨双年展,林州,河南
2008水色,今日美术馆,北京
2004被制造的快乐,RMIT美术馆,澳大利亚墨尔本
2003雌雄同体,798 艺术区,北京
2002面具面孔,红门画廊,北京
 新都市主义,广东美术馆,广州
2001零度计划,桥艺术中心,北京
2000艺术大餐,三里屯88号,北京
1998天地之际,巴德学院艺术博物馆,美国纽约
1992中国文化部艺术家联合展览,中国国家博物馆,北京
  
奖金 
  
1996 美国亚洲文化理事会
1998美国LUCE 基金会
2004 澳大利亚亚澳联基金会
2014首届南京国际美术展银奖
  
公共收藏
 
芝加哥艺术博物馆,日本福冈亚洲美术馆,北京中间美术馆,澳门艺术博物馆,南京德基美术馆,南京百家湖美术馆,西湖美术馆,日本九州文化艺术中心, 美国东来山庄美术馆,芝加哥亚洲艺术研究所,丹佛艺术博物馆,德国北方艺术公园等。

Exhibitions 相关展览

Essays 评论摘抄

Zhang Zhaohui’s freehand abstract ink works extend, transform and transcend the traditional techniques and aesthetics of Chinese freehand brushwork. He unfolds brush-and-ink imagery through spatial composition and structural arrangement. While retaining the essence of traditional brush art, his works expand the expressive power of this age-old culture in contemporary society and carry forward the spirit of traditional Chinese culture.

— Peng Feng, Art Theorist, Former Dean of the School of Arts, Peking University

Zhang Zhaohui’s exploration in ink art has addressed the predicament of traditional brushwork in modern times. The debate over ink painting is not about abandoning brush and ink amid stylistic changes. Instead, the core lies in transforming traditional brush language into a contemporary artistic vocabulary — a notion fully validated by his artistic practice.

— Liu Xiaochun, Late Renowned Art Critic, Former Research Fellow, Chinese National Academy of Arts

If the light in Li Keran’s paintings shines onto the canvas from the outside, the “light” in Zhang Zhaohui’s works emanates from behind the picture plane, representing a distinctive artistic experiment. In this regard, his exploration of light and shadow differs from that of past Chinese painters, which is what I admire most about his creations.

— Shui Tianzhong, Late Renowned Art Critic, Former Research Fellow and Director of the Fine Arts Research Institute, Chinese National Academy of Arts

What makes these works remarkable is the complete absence of figurative representation on the canvas. Eternal natural structures, perpetual physical laws, cosmic order and harmony, together with the cyclic movement of weather, seasons, water flows and life cycles governed by these principles, have long been core themes of Chinese ink art. Zhang Zhaohui, however, reinterprets all these elements from a contemporary perspective.

Richard Vine, Editor-in-Chief of Art in America

Though equipped with profound knowledge of art history and art theories, Zhang Zhaohui has never set for himself the mission or obligation to “complete the contemporary transformation of ink art”. Instead, he has always consciously rooted himself in the extensive lineage of ink painting language, perpetually discovering the boundless charm inherent in this art form.

— Yang Weimin, Ink Art Critic & Curator

To some viewers, Zhang Zhaohui’s new ink paintings have seemed at odds with China’s millennium-old ink painting tradition ever since their debut. Thus, they have garnered little praise from the domestic ink art circle, whose practitioners regard his brushwork, composition rules and especially spatial layout as unconventional and iconoclastic.

— Fang Zhenning, Renowned Art Critic & Curator

Zhang Zhaohui’s ink works feature pure rationality, integrating Eastern and Western aesthetics while echoing the essence of ancient and modern art. They reveal that the language of contemporary ink art holds endless fresh visual possibilities.

— Shi Jianbang, Art Critic

“张朝晖的写意抽象系列水墨作品是对传统笔墨写意的延伸,转变和超越。他将笔墨意象在空间和结构中展开,在展现传统笔墨精髓的同时,拓展了笔墨文化在当代社会的表现力,并弘扬传统文化精神。”

——彭锋,艺术理论家,北京大学艺术学院首任院长

“张朝晖的水墨艺术探索解决了笔墨在当今社会的困境。水墨画不是形态转变要不要笔墨的问题,关键是笔墨必须转型,从传统为当代艺术语汇,他的艺术实践证明了这一点。”

——刘骁纯,已故著名艺术评论家,中国艺术研究院研究员

“李可染绘画中的光是从画面外照到画面内的话,张朝晖画中的“光”是从画面背后透出来的,这是一种新的尝试。从这一点来说,和以往中国画家对光影的关注和实验是有所不同的,这也是我比较欣赏的。”

——水天中,已故著名艺术评论家,原中国艺术研究院研究员,美术研究所所长

“画面上没有任何实际的再现性描述,是这批作品的重要性所在。永恒的自然结构,以及持续不断的物理上的对应法则,即宇宙的秩序与和谐,再加上遵循这些规律和法则周而复始地瞬间运行的天气,季节,水流,和生命周期,这些都是中国水墨艺术的关键,但张朝晖的作品都被他赋予当代的视角。”

——里查德·维恩,《美国艺术》主编

虽然具有深厚的美术史和美术理论功底,但自始至终,张朝晖从未给自己划定一个“完成水墨艺术当代性转化”的使命或责任,只是一直自觉地将自己嵌入水墨语言的庞大谱系中,不断发现水墨自身无尽之魅力。

——杨维民,水墨艺术评论家,策展人

在一些人看来,张朝晖的新水墨从一开始问世,就和中国有着上千历史的水墨画传统格格不入,因此也很少有来自中国水墨画界赞扬的声音,认为无论是笔法还是章法,尤其是构图,都属于一种离经叛道。

——方振宁,著名艺术评论家,策展人

读画家张朝晖的水墨作品,纯粹理性,贯通中西,暗合古今,令人感觉现代水墨语言潜藏着无穷崭新的视觉可能。

——石建邦,艺术评论家

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