1976 Born in Huangshi, Hubei Province

1997 Graduated from painting major, Hubei Academy of Fine Arts China

2002 Graduated from the  Department  of Arts and Design , Hubei Institute of Technology China with a master´s degree

2014-2016 Visiting Scholar, Sculpture Department, Central Academy of Fine Arts China

Currently works in Beijing

SOLO EXHIBITION

2022

Metanoia - Zhang Zaozao Solo Exhibition, earthworm Space, Beijing, China

GROUP EXHIBITION 

2023

“Purifying the Soul”Contemporary Jewelry Exhibition, Lang Yuan Vintage Orchid Environment Art Center，Beijing, China

Contemporary international Jewelry and metal Art triennial exhibition and international Tour exhibition—— “Stone into gold”, Shanghai Baolong Art Museum, Shanghai, China

2019

Contemporary International Jewelry and Metal Art Triennial and European Tour ——  "21gram", Manual Art Center, Munich, Germany

China International Jewelry Art Biennale, Beijing, China

2018

Contemporary International Jewelry and Metal Art Triennial  —— "21 grams" Civil Art Museum of China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.

I create a series of works to explore the individual’s spirituality and the relationship between the people and the objective enviroment people experiences through the fragmentation and the reconstruction of concrete existence of realistic beings. They are refered as reconstructed workings being built by abstract, random pieces of glass. Each individual piece of broken glass has a different looking. The characteristics of their appearance are changed after I carve them into butterflies -- they turn from the small to the great, from the ordinariness to the delicacy, and from the sharpness to the softness; this change points to the mutual transformation from one kind to another, and it may conform the underlying law of the development of realistic beings. The fragments are reorganised and being turned to a mask. The mask represents an engergy which originates from another dimension and constantly grow. I senecerly hope that people could feel that power from my work.