Xu Zhen
Artist, Curator, MadeIn Company Founder
Xu Zhen, born in 1977, lives and works in Shanghai.
In 2004, Xu Zhen won the prize for ‘Best Artist’ at the China Contemporary Art Award. His practice covers various media such as installations, video, painting, performance, etc.
Xu Zhen has exhibited internationally, at museums and biennales, such as, the Venice Biennale (2001, 2005), The Museum of Modern Art (New York, 2004), Mori Art Museum (Tokyo, 2005), MoMA PS1 (New York, 2006), Tate Liverpool (2007), Hayward Gallery (London, 2012), Lyon Biennial (2013), Armory Show (New York, 2014), Long Museum (Shanghai 2015), Al Riwaq Art Center (Qatar, 2016), Sydney Biennial (2016), Guggenheim Museum (New York, 2017), Sharjah Biennial (2019), Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, 2019), National Gallery of Australia (Canberra, 2020), among others.
Aside from being an artist, Xu Zhen is also a curator and the founder of MadeIn Company and MadeIn Art Museum. In 1998, he co-founded BizArt Art Center, the first independent non-profit art institution in Shanghai. He co-curated with other artists major exhibitions in Shanghai and was one of the initiators of Art-Ba-Ba (www.art-ba-ba.com), a leading online forum launched in 2006 for discussion and critique of contemporary art. In 2009, Xu Zhen established ‘MadeIn Company’, a contemporary art creation corporate, focusing on the production of creativity, and devoted to the research of contemporary culture’s infinite possibilities. In 2013, MadeIn Company launched XU ZHEN® which is committed to art creation and cutting-edge culture development. In 2014, MadeIn Company established MadeIn Gallery. The year 2022 marked the opening of the MadeIn Art Museum to the public.
