Wanxin Zhang

Wanxin Zhang, whose personal and artistic journey has taken him from Manchuria to California, has spent over 30 years living and making art in the Bay Area. He has rightfully earned the title of “a California artist.” His sculpture represents a fusion of historical references and contemporary cultural context, often employing humor along with potent social and political commentary. 

Zhang received the 2006 Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant and the 2004 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant. In 2019, he was the subject of a major mid-career retrospective and accompanying monograph, Wanxin Zhang: The Long Journey, at the Museum of Craft and Design in San Francisco. 

His work is included in the collections of the Asian Art Museum and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (de Young); the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento; the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University; the Renwick Gallery at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.; Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA; the American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, CA; Arizona State University Art Museum; and the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami. Internationally, his work is held by the Annie Wong Art Foundation in Hong Kong, the National Art Museum of China in Beijing, and the Ube Tokiwa Museum in Japan. 

Zhang lives and works in San Francisco. He is represented by Catharine Clark Gallery. 

Programs:

• Marcus Exhibition Claiming Space: Refiguring the Body in Landscape (2022)
• P L A C E: Reckonings by Asian American Artists (2024)

• Marcus Exhibition When the World is Beautifully Strange (2025)

Artworks:

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