Zhang Dali

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Zhang Dali (born 1963, Harbin, China) is an artist based in Beijing.

Zhang trained at the Beijing Central Academy of Art & Design. After studying painting in China, he went to Italy, where he discovered graffiti art. He was the only graffiti artist in Beijing throughout the early 1990s, and is the first artist since Keith Haring and Jackson Pollock to be given the cover of Time magazine.^{[citation needed]}

From 1995 to 1998 he spray-painted over 2000 giant profiles of his own bald head on buildings throughout Beijing, placing the images alongside 'chai' characters painted by the city authorities to indicate that a building is scheduled for demolition.^[1] The appearance of these images became the subject of media debate in Beijing in 1998.^[2]

He has shown work internationally in many exhibitions including the International Center for Photography in New York, Courtyard Gallery in Beijing, Institute of Contemporary Art in London, Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo and the 2006 Gwangju Biennale in Korea. He is represented by Chinese Contemporary in London, Kiang Gallery in Atlanta and Base Gallery in Tokyo

[edit] References

1. ^ Anne-Marie Broudehoux, The Making and Selling of Post-Mao Beijing, Routledge, 2004, pp221-2. ISBN 0415320577
2. ^ Wu Hung in Carol Appadurai Breckenridge, Cosmopolitanism, Duke University Press, 2002, p189. ISBN 0822328992

[edit] Bibliography

• Q & A: Zhang Dali interview, CNN, Dec 11, 2006
• Archive of Chinese Avant Garde Art, Cornell University
• Wu Hong, Zhang Dali's Dialogue: Conversation with a City in Public Culture - Vol.12, No.3, Fall 2000, pp. 749-768 accessed at [1] - subscription only

[edit] External links

• Zhang Dali at Chinese Contemporary
• Zhang Dali – Saatchi Gallery
• Zhang Dali - Kiang Gallery
• Zhang Dali – Base Gallery