ZHANG Yu b. 1959
Overview
Fingerprints 2015. 6-1, 2015
Zhang Yu graduated from the Tianjin Academy of Arts and Crafts in 1988. Throughout his artistic career, he has been engaged with the language of art and experimental ink painting, contributing to and reforming the discursive boundaries of ink art.
His early series, "Divine Light," became internationally recognized when they were included in the Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition, "Ink Art: Past As Present in Contemporary China," in 2013. The artist is also well known for his "Fingerprint" and installation works, which have been exhibited in major exhibitions in China, Taiwan, Europe and America.
His recent solo exhibitions include LACMA (LA County Museum of Art); HOW Art Museum, Shanghai; Yuan Art Museum, Beijing; Art Centre of Providence University, Taichung; Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong; Beijing; Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou; and more. His works have been collected by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China; Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong; Benetton Museum, Venice, Italy; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark; and Chinese Culture Center, San Francisco, USA.
Works
Exhibitions
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Zhang Yu: Ink Reconstructed
3 May - 19 Jul 2025Zhang Yu is known for pushing the boundaries of ink, experimenting with the medium in ways that blend abstraction, durational performance, and embodied practice. Moving beyond traditional ink painting, he...Read more -
Beyond Ink
28 May - 17 Jul 2022The performative application of ink, the time-based process of meditative mark-making, and the sculptural dimension of the material are revealed in each artist’s work, and in the dialogues between them....Read more
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