NYAB Event - Zhang Hongtu Exhibition

Zhang Hongtu Exhibition

Queens Museum of Art

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Zhang Hongtu has spent the past five decades expanding the ways in which viewers perceive the world around them, skillfully drawing connections between cultures. Originally from mainland China, and New York–based since 1982, Zhang’s subject matter and styles have continued to shift resulting in a vast body of work that has allowed him to show internationally for more than 30 years.

The first U.S. survey of his work, Zhang Hongtu includes pieces from the late 1950s to the present, chronicling Zhang’s art-making from his early days in China, to his pursuit of artistic freedom in the West.

Featuring more than 90 objects, Zhang Hongtu showcases the artist’s multifaceted and unceasing creativity in diverse styles and media. The earliest works date from Zhang’s art studies as a youth in Beijing, and follow his life during Chairman Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution.* As Muslims, Zhang and his family suffered particularly harsh treatment during Mao’s rule, and the experiences of the cultural and political climate of his youth fuel his critiques of systems of power to this day.