Life and Career
Zhang was born in the city of Jilin in China's Jilin province in 1953. She came of age during the 1960s and 1970s political upheavals known as the Cultural Revolution, which exerted a certain influence on her early painting. In 1979, she graduated from the China Academy of Arts in the city of Hangzhou in Zhejiang province, then started her career as an art editor of Shandong Pictural and a painted traditional Chinese painting. Like Wang Guangyi, Xu Beihong and Wu Guanzhong, Zhang Xiaogang is becoming to the best-selling contemporary Chinese artists and is a favorite of European collectors.
He is represented in Beijing and Paris, Boston, New York and Blossom Art Collection in Los Angeles.
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