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Zhao Zhao talking about the process for creating his series, Constellations for Art Basel Hong Kong 2013 

1982Born in Xinjiang, China, 
2003Graduated from the Xinjiang Institute of Arts, Department of Oil Painting, BFA
CurrentlyLives and works in Beijing, China
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023Bordercrossing: Possibilities and Interactions, Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China
2019Control, Mizuma Gallery, Singapore
Control, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, USA
2018Repetition as Art: Zhao Zhao Takes Action, Osage Gallery, Kowloon, Hong Kong
One Second · One Year, Tang Contemporary Art Hong Kong, Central, Hong Kong
InExtremis, 1st Gallery Space, Tang Contemporary Art, 798 Art District, Beijing, China
Control, Carl Kostyal, London, UK
2017Zhao Zhao: Giorgio Morandi, 305 Space, Beijing, China
5th Art Basel Hong Kong, Tang Contemporary Art, Hong Kong
Self-portrait, LIN&LIN Gallery, Taipei,Taiwan
In The Desert Below A Constellation · In The Sky- Zhao Zhao, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Zhao Zhao- DESERT・CAMEL, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2016Lighter, Fragments, Untitled and Safe, Tang Contemporary Art, Hong Kong, China
Zhao Zhao, Tang Contemporary Art, Hong Kong
2015-16Zhao Zhao, Hadrien de Montferrand, Hangzhou, China
2015Zhao Zhao: Constellations II, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA
Zhao Zhao, Carol Kostyál, Stockholm, Sweden
Zhao Zhao: OMNIPRESENT, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, USA
Zhao Zhao: Untitled,
Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing, China
How-Zhao Zhao, Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Hong Kong
2014Zhao Zhao: Uncertainty, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China
How-Zhao Zhao, Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Hong Kong
2013Zhao Zhao: Constellations, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA
Nothing Inside II, Alexander Ochs Gallery, Berlin, Germany
A Sense of Security: Zhao Zhao, Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing, China
A Sense of Security II: China Likes Me and I Likes China, Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing, China
2012Nothing Inside, Alexander Ochs Gallery, Beijing, China
2011According to Zhao Zhao: New Works, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China
Walking Naked, Alexander Ochs Galleries, Berlin, Germany
20095113, 51 Square meters Project, Taikang Space, Beijing, China
2008Da Quan Gou, CAAW, Beijing, China
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 
2019Entropy, Faurschou Foundation Venice, Italy
Shanghai Document, Shanghai Himalayas Museum, Shanghai, China
From the Margins to the Middle, Urban Symbiosis Project, An Art Museum, Beijing, China
Nature as Measure, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China
Now is the Time – 2019 Wuzhen Contemporary Art Exhibition, Wuzhen, China
A Fairy Tale in Red Times, NGV International, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2018Entropy, Faurschou Beijing, 798 Art District, Beijing, China
Adrift, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA
Entropy, Faurschou Foundation Beijing, China
One Way or Another, Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, USA
Suspended, Undecided, Tang Contemporary Art, Bangkok, Thailand
The Street. Where the world is made, MAXXI Museum, Rome, Italy
Villain, 2018 West Bund, West Bund Art Center, Shanghai, China
Edge of the Wonderland, Thailand Biennale Krabi 2018, Krabi, Thailand
Everyday Legend, Birmingham City University, England
Annual Arts Exhibition between China and Portuguese- speaking Countries- The Universe, Ox Warehouse, Macau, China
Frontier - Re-assessment of Post-Globalisational Politics, OCAT Institute, Beijing, China
Elias Crespin & Zhao Zhao, HdM Gallery, London, England
2017Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted, Tang Contemporary Art Center, Beijing, China
2016 The exhibition of annual of contemporary art of China, Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China
Dound Table Discussions, Lin & Lin Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Jungle III - Common, Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing, China
Post-sense Sensibility: Trepidation and Will, Shanghai Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai, China
H Queen’s unveils a public digital art project “Voyages”, H Queen’s, 80 Queen’s Toad Central, Hong Kong
Social Theater: Participation and Sharing, The 5th Chongqing Biennial of Young Artists, Chongqing, China
Precariat’s Meeting, Shanghai Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai , China
Round Table Discussions: Concepts in International Waters and Imagining Foreign Lands, LIN&LIN Gallery, Taipei,Taiwan
Islands, Constellations& Galapagos, YOKOHAMA TRIENNALE 2017, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
STRESS FIELD 4th Documentary Exhibition of Fine Arts, Hubei Museum Of Art, Wuhan, China
Post-sense Sensibility: Trepidation and Will, Shanghai Ming Contemporary Art  Museum, Shanghai, China
The 2nd Session of Changjiang International Photography &Video Biennale, Changjiang Museum of Contemporary Art, Chongqing, China
2016Art Basel Hong Kong film sector: Taklamakan Project 2016, Art Basel, Hong Kong
The Decameron-BMCA Documenting Art, Blue Mountain Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Everyday Legend, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Trepidation and Will, Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China
Messages from The Ruin, Asia Art Center (Taipei), Taipei
Northern Land Southern Seas, Tang Contemporary Art, Bangkok, Thailand
New Voices: A DSL Collection Story , Klein Sun Gallery, New York, USA 
The Exhibition of Annual of Contemporary Art of China 2016, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China
JingShen: The Act of Painting in Contemporary China, Padiglione d’arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
2015Spirit, PAC PADIGLIONE D'ARTE CONTEMPORANEA, Milan, Italy
BEYOND STUFF, Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japen
Fusion since the 1930s, Chinese contemporary art, "Wanlin Art Museum, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
2014The Armory Show 2014, China: Focus, Chambers Fine Art, Pier 94, New York, USA
Zero Tolerance, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, USA
My Generation: Young Chinese Artists, Tampa Museum of Art, Florida, USA 
My Generation: Young Chinese Artists, Orange County Museum of Art, California, USA
Time is a Saw: Established and Emerging Contemporary Chinese Artists, Crossman Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Wisconsin, USA
19th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Unlived by What is Seen, Tang Contemporary Art Center, Pace Gallery Beijing, Galleria Continua, Beijing, China
WORMHOL: GEO-ATTRACTION, Lin & Lin Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Beyond Stuff, Mizuma Gallery, Singapore
ART14
London, London, UK
Art Basel Hong Kong 2015, Chambers Fine Art, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong, China
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Wisconsin, USA
Biennale of Sydney,
Sydney, Austrilia
2013Zhao Zhao: Constellations, Art Basel Hong Kong, China
Humboldt Lab Dahlem, Museum of Asian Art, Berlin, Germany
More than Meets the Eye, Mizuma & One Gallery, Beijing, China
The 14th OPEN Performance Art Festival, Space Station, Beijing, China
Game of Thrones, Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin, Germany
Read, Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai, China
Jungle II — A Thriving Morphology: Theory Of Relativity, Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing, China
Individual Growth — Motive Power of Contemporary Art, Tianjin Art Museum, Tianjin, China
Groundwork Community, Taikang Space, Beijing, China
LISTE 18, LISTE Art Fair Basel, Basel, Switzerland
FUCK OFF 2, Groninger Museum, Holland
Pessimism or Resistance, Taikang Space, Beijing, China
A Sense of Security III — A Thriving Morphology, Platform China, Beijing, China
Duchamp and/or/in China, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
On|Off: China’s Young Artists in Concept and Practice, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
China China, Pinchuk Art Center, Kyiv, Ukraine
2012The Worst Show, Gland, Beijing, China
Detached Involvement,Newageart Gallery, Beijing, China
CAFAM: Future Exhibition, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China
2011Catching the Moon in the Water, James Cohen, New York, USA
Image, History, Existence,Taikang Life 15th Anniversary Art Collection Exhibition, Beijing, China
5 x 5 Castello 11, Premi International d'art contemporani Diputacio de Castello, Castello, Spain
1 + 1: A Cross-strait-four-regions, Artistic Exchange Project,He Xiangning Museum, Shenzhen / Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong / Kuandu Museum of Fine Art, Taipei
Freestyle Li Space, Bejing, China
51 m2: 16 Emerging Chinese Artist, Tai Kang Space, Beijing, China
2010Reflection of Minds, MoCA Shanghai Envisage III, Shanghai, China
Conception as Enzyme, A4 Gallery, Chengdu, China 
Sharism, Get it Louder 2010, Beijing/ Shanghai, China
3 + X, Kunsthalle Lophem, Center for Contemporary Art, Lophem, Belgium
No-Name Station-China, Australia Contemporary Art Exhibition, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Interpret Out of Context, T Space, Beijing, China
Moving!, Li Space, Beijing, China
The Burden of Representation, Osage Gallery, Hongkong
Also Space, C Space, Beijing, China
Archives, Osage Gallery, Hongkong
2009Art Economies Beyond Pattern Recognition, Osage Gallery, Shanghai, China
Personal Space, 24 HR Art-Northern Territory Contemporary Art Centre, Darwin, Australia
Work in Progress - How Do Artists Work, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2008Delirious Beijing, PKM Gallery, Beijing, China
Insomnia , Bizart Art Center, Shanghai, China
Landscape Topology, Magee Art Gallery, Beijing, China
Interposition 366, Zendai Moma, Shanghai, China
Chinese Freedom, T Space. Beijing, China
CURATORIAL PROJECT
2010Tora Tora Tora, Chinese Emerging Photographers Group Show, Caochangdi Photospring – Arles in Beijing
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Daimler Art Collection, Berlin, Germany
DSL Collection, Paris, France
The Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation, Switzerland
Tiroche DeLeon Collection, Frankfurt, Germany
Wemhöner Collection, Herford, Germany
White Rabbit Collection, Sydney, Australia
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