Sculptor Zhang Feng Info - Sculpture.org

Zhang Feng

1965 Born in Shenyang, China

1988 BFA Sculpture Department of Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts, Shenyang, China

2000 Training Class for Excellent Teachers, Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts, Shenyang, China

2006 MFA New York Academy of Art, New York, USA

SOLO EXHIBITION

2000 Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum, Shenyang, China

2003 Red Mill Gallery, Vermont, USA

2004 The Gallery in Cork Street, London, UK

Crystal Foundation Art Gallery, New York, USA

Gallery Dekei, Nuenen, Netherland

2005 Hanmo Art Gallery, Beijing, China

2007 Shanghai Suomei Gallery, Shanghai

2009 1 Art Bank Gallery, Beijing

AWARDS

1989 Bronze Medal at the 7th National Art Exhibition Art Museum, Beijing, China

1992 Second Prize at the 5.23 National Art Exhibition, China National Art Museum, Beijing, China

1993 Second prize at the 3rd National Sport-in-Art Exhibition,

2003 Asian Artist Fellowship-Freeman Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, Vermont, USA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION

1989 7th National Art Exhibition, China National Art Museum, Beijing

1990 the 2nd National Sport-in-Art Exhibition, China National Art Museum, Beijing

1992 the 5.23 National Art Exhibition, China National Art Museum, Beijing, China

1993 The 3rd National Sport-in-Art Exhibition, China National Art Museum Beijing, China

1994 8th National Art Exhibition, Liaoning Art Museum, Shenyang

1996 China-Korea Sculpture Exchange Exhibition, Shenyang, China & Yishan, Korea

1997 ’97 Shenzhen Nanshan Sculpture Exhibition, Shenzhen, China

’97 China Changchun International Sculpture Invitation Symposium, Changchun, China

1999 The 9th National Art Exhibition, China National Art Museum, Beijing, China

2000 China Northeast Contemporary Art Invitation Exhibition, Dongyu Art Museum, Shenyang

2000’ Kwangju Bienalle Special Exhibition, Kwangju, Korea

Second China Contemporary Young Sculptor Invitation Exhibition, Hangzhou, Qingdao and Shenzhen, China

The 38th Nak Woo Sculptors Society International Invitation Exhibition, Moran Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

2001 China North Sculpture Annual Exhibition, Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum, Shenyang, China

Korea- China Sculpture Exchange Exhibition, Seoul, Korea

2002 Let’s Go, Chinese Contemporary Artists with the Football World Cup, Beijing, China

2003 International Artexpo New York, Javits Center, New York, USA

China Changchun International Sculpture Conference 2003, Changchun, China

2003’The First Beijing International Art Bienalle Exhibition, Beijing, China

2004 2004’Thai-Korea-China International Sculpture Exchange Exhibition, Silpkoun University, Thailand

International Artexpo New York, Javits Center, New York, USA

Boryeong’s International Stone Sculpture Symposium, Boryeong, Korea

2005 Dalian International Sculpture Invitation Exhibition, Dalian, China

2006 Shanghai Spring Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, Shanghai, China

Shanghai Spring Art Salon, Shanghai, China

Master of Fine Arts Diploma Exhibition, New York Academy of Art, New York, USA

2007 Sculpture Space- National Art School Sculptor works Exhibition, Beijing, China

Shanghai International Sculpture Annual Exhibition, Shanghai, China

Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition, 798 Beijing

2008 "Anshang 2008" Contemporary Art Exhibition,Shanghai, China

"Go into the Forbidden City"Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition, Beijing

Contemporary Sculptors Nominated Exhibition, 798 Beijing

The 1^st International Bundang Memorial Sculpture Symposium,Seoul

2009 "Dialogues on Sculptur"The Fourth International Sculpture Exhibition and Symposium,University of Minnesota Art Museum,USA

Times Art Museum,Beijing

"Diagonal Line" Contemporary Academy Sculpture Exhibition ,Xi Chun Art Museum,Chong Qing

COLLECTION

　　 China National Art Museum

China Olympic Committee

London The Pride of Valley Sculpture Park

Asian Art Foundation

China Changchun Sculpture Park

China Changchun Sculpture Art Museum　　

Shenzhen Nanshan Sculpture House

American Crystal Foundation

Korean Boryeong Art Museum　

Yie Maozhong Art Foundation

Tai Wan Changliu Art Museum

New York Academy of Art

Artist Statement

In their formal transformation of the two-dimensions of ink painting into the three-dimensions of sculpture, my works conceptually confront and reconcile the Zen “mind” with the vocabulary of Western abstract painting. Nothingness trumps existence; white supplants black, movement overcomes form-- in such ways do I seek to create contemporary art works that embody the metaphysics of an Eastern consciousness.

Ink painting is an essential creative step in my initiating a sculptural creation. But I am not simply referring to the drawing of a preliminary sketch or study of my intended final creation. Rather, these are experiments in anticipating the salient features of the sculpture I am envisioning through the black-and-white interplay, textural qualities and unique spatial sensibility and dynamics of ink painting in two-dimensions. The most obvious departure from traditional ink painting is in a deliberately intensified focus on the purely spatial and structural vocabulary of the painting surface, transcending its normal representational aesthetic and subject matter.

Ink painting possesses a mysterious power that makes it the best language with which to express the mysticism of Eastern culture. But it is ultimately only a two-dimensional, surface medium. And because of this nature, it always exists in a fantasy world. I want to use clay, use bronze, and use my understanding of ink painting to revive and renew it, to fill in its emptiness, render it concrete, so that in the cold smoothness or rough physicality of the bronze can be felt the mysterious power of Eastern ink painting.