Zhang Dali

Zhang Dali (born 1963, Harbin, China) is an artist based in Beijing.

Zhang trained at the Beijing Central Academy of Art & Design. After studying painting in China, he went to Italy, where he discovered graffiti art. He was the only graffiti artist in Beijing throughout the early 1990s, and is the first artist since Keith Haring and Jackson Pollock to be given the cover of "Time magazine".Fact|date=November 2007

From 1995 to 1998 he spray-painted over 2000 giant profiles of his own bald head on buildings throughout Beijing, placing the images alongside 'chai' characters painted by the city authorities to indicate that a building is scheduled for demolition. [Anne-Marie Broudehoux, "The Making and Selling of Post-Mao Beijing", Routledge, 2004, pp221-2. ISBN 0415320577 ] The appearance of these images became the subject of media debate in Beijing in 1998. [Wu Hung in Carol Appadurai Breckenridge, "Cosmopolitanism", Duke University Press, 2002, p189. ISBN 0822328992]

He has shown work internationally in many exhibitions including the International Center for Photography in New York, Courtyard Gallery in Beijing, Institute of Contemporary Art in London, Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo and the 2006 Gwangju Biennale in Korea. He is represented by Chinese Contemporary in London, Kiang Gallery in Atlanta and Base Gallery in Tokyo

References

Bibliography

* [http://www.cnn.com/2006/TRAVEL/12/07/beijing.qa/ "Q & A: Zhang Dali interview", CNN, Dec 11, 2006]
* [http://wason.library.cornell.edu/Wen/zhang_dali.php Archive of Chinese Avant Garde Art, Cornell University]
* Wu Hong, "Zhang Dali's Dialogue: Conversation with a City" in "Public Culture" - Vol.12, No.3, Fall 2000, pp. 749-768 accessed at [http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/public_culture/v012/12.3wu_hung.html] - subscription only

External links

* [http://www.chinesecontemporary.com/zhang_dali.htm Zhang Dali at Chinese Contemporary]
* [http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/zhang_dali.htm Zhang Dali – Saatchi Gallery]
* [http://www.kiang-gallery.com/artists/dali/index.html Zhang Dali - Kiang Gallery]
* [http://www.basegallery.com/bio-e_zhang.html Zhang Dali – Base Gallery]