Wanxin Zhang

Wanxin Zhang was born in ChangChun, China and graduated from the LuXun Academy of Fine Art with a degree in sculpture. After establishing his art career as a sculptor in China, he emigrated to the United States in 1992. Zhang was the recipient of the 2006 Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant, and the 2004 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant. In 2019, Zhang was the subject of a major mid-career retrospective and accompanying monograph, Wanxin Zhang: The Long Journey, at the Museum of Craft and Design (San Francisco). Zhang’s work is in San Francisco Bay Area collections of the Asian Art Museum, Fine Arts Museums, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the Crocker Art Museum, and Cantor Arts Center; in the Renwick Gallery at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (DC), the American Museum of Ceramic Art (Pomona, California), Annie Wong Art Foundation (Hong Kong), National Art Museum (Beijing, China), and the Ube Tokiwa Museum (Japan). Zhang lives and works in San Francisco. He is represented by Catharine Clark Gallery.

Programs:

• 2022 Marcus Exhibition & Opening Festival: Claiming Space
• P L A C E: Reckonings by Asian American Artists

Artworks:

• Color Face (2013)—Permanent Collection
• Return to the Garden of Eden (2011 – 2013)