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Zhang Enli

Biography

Born

Jilin, China, 1965

Education

Arts & Design Institute of Wuxi Technical University, China, graduated in 1989

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2024

Hauser & Wirth, 'Zhang Enli. Faces', Hong Kong, China

Xavier Hufkens, 'Zhang Enli. A Traveller', Brussels, Belgium

2023

Long Museum West Bund, 'Zhang Enli. Expression', Shanghai, China

HEM He Art Museum, 'Zhang Enli. Portraits', Guangdong, China

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025

By Art Matters, '360°: why we paint?', Hangzhou, China

2024

Museum Singer Laren, 'My World', Laren, The Netherlands

Corridor Foundation, 'The Sphere of Reality and Fantasy. Inheritance and Exploration of the Tangible and the Imagined', Shenzhen, China

Bibliography

Monographs

2023

Hecheng, Huang, Wuyi, Zhang (eds.), 'Zhang Enli. Portrait', China Art Press, 2023, ill. (exh. cat.)

2021

Chen, Yue (ed.), 'Zhang Enli. A Room That Can Move', Shanghai: Culture Publishing House, 2021, ill. (exh. cat.)

Long Museum (ed.), 'Zhang Enli. A Room With Colour', Shanghai: Culture Publishing House, 2021, ill. (exh. cat.)

Xavier Hufkens (ed.), 'Zhang Enli', Brussels: Xavier Hufkens, 2021, ill. (exh. cat.)

Publications

2024

Kovacs, Arpad (ed.), 'Uta Barth. Peripheral Vision', Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2024, ill. (exh. cat.)

Den Hartog Jager, Hans, Brentjes, Yvonne, Geraerdts, Marjolein, 'My World', Laren: Singer Laren / Zwolle: Wbooks, 2024, pp. 8, 9, 119, ill. (exh. cat.)

2022

Rocher, Sébastien, 'La Comptabilité dans l'Art', Saint Just la Pendue: APDC, 2022, p. 49, ill.

Press

2024

Short, Stephen, 'Driven to Abstraction. Fresh from a retrospective at Shanghai’s Long Museum, Zhang Enli debuts Faces at Hauser & Wirth’s new Hong Kong headquarters', in: Prestige, January 2024, pp.112-117, ill.

___, 'Zhang Enli. Hauser & Wirth. Cover Story', in: Artco, Hong Kong, January 2023, pp. 32-35, ill. and on cover

2023

___, 'Zhang Enli: Faces of the World', in: MarieClaire, December 2023, pp. 30-43, ill.

Leandra, 'Zhang Enli in the Era: You can express traces, but you don’t have to leave any traces', in: The Exchange, The Wallstreet Journal, China, December 2023, pp. 40-45, ill.

Jie Wang, 'Zhang Enli's solo exhibition a portrait of the world', on: shine.cn, 8 November 2023, ill.

___, 'Hauser & Wirth Hong Kong to open on January 24, with Zhang Enli solo exhibition', in: 99Art, 6 November 2023, ill.

___, 'Long Museum presents a retrospective of Zhang Enli’s paintings over the past 30 years', on: cafa.com.cn, 27 October 2023, ill.

___, 'Zhang Enli', in: Harper’s Bazaar Korea, 21 February 2023, pp. 186-187, ill.