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Zhang Xiaogang (Chinese: 张晓刚, born 1958) is a contemporary Chinese
symbolist and surrealist painter. He has made a Bloodline series of paintings,
which are often monochromatic, stylized portraits of Chinese people, usually
with large, dark-pupiled eyes, posed in a stiff manner deliberately reminiscent
of family portraits from the 1950s and 60s. On 21 March 2007, his work
Bloodline: Three Comrades sold for $2,112,000 at Sotheby's in New York.
Zhang Xiaogang’s "Bloodline: The Big Family No. 3" fetched $6.06
million at Sotheby's biannual Hong Kong sales April 9, 2008. Zhang
Xiaogang is represented by Chinese Contemporary in London and Beijing,
Gallery Artside in Seoul, Jaski Art Gallery in Amsterdam, Max Protetch and
PaceWildenstein in New York.
Website: zhangxiaogang.artron.net
symbolist and surrealist painter. He has made a Bloodline series of paintings,
which are often monochromatic, stylized portraits of Chinese people, usually
with large, dark-pupiled eyes, posed in a stiff manner deliberately reminiscent
of family portraits from the 1950s and 60s. On 21 March 2007, his work
Bloodline: Three Comrades sold for $2,112,000 at Sotheby's in New York.
Zhang Xiaogang’s "Bloodline: The Big Family No. 3" fetched $6.06
million at Sotheby's biannual Hong Kong sales April 9, 2008. Zhang
Xiaogang is represented by Chinese Contemporary in London and Beijing,
Gallery Artside in Seoul, Jaski Art Gallery in Amsterdam, Max Protetch and
PaceWildenstein in New York.
Website: zhangxiaogang.artron.net
