Mirage by Zhong Biao
2009
Acrylic paint on canvas, mirrors, and video projection with sound
Patrons: Michelle and Tom Whitten, Jean and Michael Micketti
Zhong Biao’s dynamic paintings capture the mood of the times in China, a society rooted in tradition but also fascinated by change.
I don’t want to force my own understanding or interpretation of my paintings on the audience. The mixture of images within each of my paintings is like a combination of elements in life. We don’t have to understand everything we see in each painting. Like life, we cannot understand everything that we have seen or experienced. In my paintings, Eastern and Western, historical and modern opposites coexist, reflecting the reality of today’s lifestyle.
You’ll find Zhong’s large-scale work, Mirage, on level two of the Hamilton Building.
© Zhong Baio. Photos by Jeff Wells.
Meet the Artist
Zhong Biao was born in 1968 in Chongqing, in the Sichuan Province of China. In 1991 he graduated from the Department of Oil Painting, at the Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now the China Academy of Fine Arts). Since 1991 he has also maintained his status as an associate professor at the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute.
Zhong Biao has exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally since his first group exhibition in 1990, with shows throughout China, Asia, Western Europe, Central and South America, and Russia. He received his first solo exhibition in 1996, and since that time has had notable solo exhibitions at the Zeit-Foto Salon, Tokyo in 2006, his American debut at the Frey Norris Gallery, San Francisco in 2007, the Xin Dong Cheng Space for Contemporary Art, Bejing in 2007, Shine Art Gallery in Shanghai in 2008, and Jakarta’s Yuz Art Museum in 2009. Zhong Biao’s works are held in the public collections of the Guangdong Museum of Art, Gwangju Museum of Art, Shanghai Art Museum, and the Singapore Art Museum.
Image courtesy of the artist.
Recent Work
An Intimate Friend, 2009. Acrylic on canvas.Image courtesy of the artist.
An Unsteady Foothold, 2009. Acrylic on canvas. Image courtesy of the artist.
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