Selected
Solo Exhibitions
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| 1988 |
Oil Paintings by Zhuang Hui, Luoyang, Henan
Province, China |
| 1992 |
Solo Installation, Luoyang, Henan Province,
China
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Selected Group Exhibitions and Experiences
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2017
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"Body, Self, Society: Chinese Performance
Photography of the 1990s", The Walther Collection, New
York, USA
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"COLLAGE: The Cards Players", Shanghai Gallery
of Art, Shanghai, China
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| 2001 |
Art Chicago 2001, Navy Pier, Chicago, USA |
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Art 32 Basel, Basel, Switzerland |
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Art Palm Beach, Palm Beach, USA |
| 1999 |
"Representing the People", Touring Exhibition,
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, Midland Art Centre,
Birmingham, UK
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The First Fukuoka Asian Triennial, The Asian
Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
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| 1998 |
International Foto - Triennial Esslingen,
Galerie der Stadt Esslingen, Esslingen am Neckar, Germany
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"Confusion", Contemporary Art Fair, Amsterdam,
The Netherlands
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"New Works From Chinese Artists", Galerie Urs
Meile, Lucerne, Switzerland
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"Seven Contemporary Chinese Artists", Nikolas
Sonne Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
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"It's Me", Worker's Cultural Palace, Forbidden
City, Beijing, China
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| 1997 |
Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
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"Zeitgenosische Fotokunst sus der Volksrepublik
China" (Contemporary Photography from the People's
Republic of China), Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
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"The Dream of China", Yanhuang Art Museum,
Beijing, China
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"Chinese Photography and Video", Max Protetch
Gallery, New York, USA
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| 1996 |
Visual Art Festival, Kunstverein and Kunsthaus,
Hamburg, Germany |
| 1995 |
"Made a Journey to the Three Gorges for the work
Traces/Remains", Hubei and Sichuan Province, China
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Editor for Red Flag (The Black Book), Beijing,
China
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Chinese Avant-Garde Art Documentation, Tokyo,
Japan
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| 1994 |
Third Historical Document Exhibition, Shanghai,
China
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"First New Artwork Concepts", exhibition of
proposals and materials for projects, Hanmo Gallery,
Beijing, China
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Made a pilgrimage along the Silk Road for summer
work, Gansu Province, China
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Dialogue with experimental artist Zhu Fadong,
published in Today's Pioneer, Beijing, China
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Artist Statement
Zhuang Hui is from Luoyang in Henan Province,
a city that is the birthplace of most Chinese
photographers. A tradition regarding himself, however,
which has come to an end with his father and elder
brother. In the most vivid memories of the artist it is
precisely his father's profession, an itinerant
photographer during the period prior to the "Liberation"
(1949) who subsequently became a salaried worker in
photographic studio in the remote center of Yumen, on
the Silk Route, where he had voluntarily gone into exile
with his family in order to avoid a bureaucratic post
offered by the newly installed Communist Party.
The subjects of Zhuang's photographs had
originally been the rich landowners who had their
portraits taken either singularly or with the family
clan, They were subsequently replaced by the common
people who during the most 'fervent' periods of the
history of the new People's Republic testified to the
events decreed by the Party - such as the "occupation of
the country side" with the help of photography. The
small Hui used to go around with his father, with
curiosity and trepidation overseeing all of the
movements carried out by his parent: such as when he
disappeared under a piece of black cloth together with a
folding (bellows) camera and, after a couple of days,
produced the images of the persons photographed, as if
by magic. The premature death of his father, when Hui
was only 7yrs old, brusquely interrupted when father -
son relationship., Photography, however, continued to
subtly fascinate the child, giving rise to painful
memories, His father's old studio, which from being a
"state" one is now privatized, was recently reacquired
by the artist's brother in this way returning to the
family.
The
self portrait
- by
Zhuang Hui
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