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YANG ZHENZHONG

b. 1968, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

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Yang Zhenzhong has been living and working in Shanghai for more than 20 years with a career closely related to the development of new media art around the area. The key themes of YANG’s works are to strengthen the contradictions and disorders existed in the society with a cynical attitude, as well as the discovering and thinking on the issue of life and death on one hand, to utilise the perception of the space in political and psychological levels on the other hand. Important solo exhibitions include: Trespassing, YANG Zhenzhong Solo Exhibition, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shanghai (2013); Don't Move, Yang Zhengzhong Solo Exhibition, ShanghART, Beijing (2011); YANG ZHENZHONG, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, U.K(2006). group show: Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York(2017); 11th Shanghai Biennale, Why Not Ask Again?, Power Station of Art, Shanghai(2016); 52nd International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale, Think with the Senses-Feel with the Mind, Venice, Italy(2007). His works can also be found in collection of significant public and private institutes such as MoMA New York, IKON Gallery (UK), Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Musée National d’Art Moderne, White Rabbit Gallery and the UBS Collection.