Zhang Ruo

1982  Born in Handan, Hebei Province

2006  Graduated from the Sculpture Department of Hebei Normal University

Currently works and lives in Beijing and Berlin

GROUP EXHIBITION

2017 

2017 Art Nova 100, Beijing, China

2015   

The 12^th Oita Asian Sculpture Exhibition, Kyushu, Japan

2014

2014 Art Nova 100, Beijing, China

2013

Abstract and Concrete, MOCA, Shanghai, China

2012  

Generation me: Lost in transiton - Niubi Newbie Projects, Shoeni Art Gallery, Hong Kong, China

The 12^th Hongkong International Art Affair, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center, Honkong, China

2011  

NEXT STOP-New Generation, Taiwan Morden Gallery,TaiZhong, China

2010 

AJAC Overseas Artists Guest Exhibition, Kanagawa-ken Guild Hall of Yokohama, Yokohama, Japan

Zhang Ruo: I was born in a ordinary northern rural family, for generations we've all been farmers. The most profound memory of my childhood was to labor in the plains with the grown ups. The grown ups say to me: “You must study hard, get into university and leave this place. In primary school the teacher say: “Knowledge changes one’s fate. You must improve yourself everyday and one day leave this place.” Slowly the books became my focus of labor. One day I got into university and there were more and more text books for me to read but I could understand them less and less. After graduating I came to Beijing and started to work as an artist. The work is hectic just the same as those of ordinary people here. Do all human beings have to work? Why is that? Is work part of our destiny? Where is our destiny bringing us? We do not know. What I know is that we cannot stop now, and can't go back to the past.