Zhang Huan (Chinese: 張洹; born 1965) is a Chinese artist based in Shanghai and New York City. He began his career as a painter and then transitioned to performance art before making a comeback to painting. [1] He is primarily known for his performance work, but also makes photographs and sculpture.

Summary of Zhang Huan. Zhang Huan's work is at times confrontational, visceral and personally dangerous, and it engages both implicitly and explicitly with problems of overpopulation, cultural erasure, political repression, poverty, famine, and want.

"Zhang Huan: My Principle of the Art is ’Those Who Submit shall Perish, Those Who Resist will Prosper’," Art World, Issue 238, Jan/Feb. 2010, PP. 74-76, China Xu, Ke. & Bai, Jiafeng.

Zhang Huan is a Chinese performance artist, painter, photographer, and sculptor. Perhaps best known for performances that test his own physical and mental endurance, Zhang creates symbolic self-portraits that question the role of family and culture in shaping contemporary life.

Zhang Huan is one of the most vital, influential and provocative contemporary artists working today.

New York performance artist shows concept photos and sculptures. Includes exhibitions listing.

Zhang Huan (born Jan. 3, 1965, Anyang, Henan province, China) is a Chinese artist known for both his early photographed performance art that often showcased his own naked body and for his later production of a great variety of large mass-produced objects.

Zhang Huan (Chinese: 張洹; born 1965) is a Chinese artist based in Shanghai and New York City. He began his career as a painter and then transitioned to performance art before making a comeback to painting. He is primarily known for his performance work, but also makes photographs and sculpture.

Jun 22, 2023 · Zhang Huan is one of China’s most renowned modern artists. Working across surreal forms of painting, visceral, body-based performance art, and now in the digital world of NFTs and beyond, his work has always gone right up to “the line,” and then past it.

May 5, 2012 · Internationally acclaimed Chinese artist Zhang Huan is best known for provocative performances that subjected his own body to challenging tests of endurance. Zhang now uses symbolically charged materials to explore issues around identity, spirituality and history.