Zeng Fanzhi was born in 1964 in Hubei, China. He studied oil painting at the Hubei Institute of Fine Arts, where he was greatly influenced by German Expressionism. Upon graduating in 1991, Zeng Fanzhi garnered critical attention for his final piece, Hospital Triptych No. 1, which was later shown at the critical “China’s New Art, Post-1989” exhibition at the Hong Kong Art Centre in 1993. The following year, Zeng Fanzhi began his celebrated Mask series, which explores isolation and identity in response to China’s transformation in the 1990s. His painting Mask Series 1996 No.6 became the highest grossing work by a Contemporary Asian artist in 2008. Selected Public Collections: Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation, Beijing, China He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, USA Selected Solo Exhibitions: “Zeng Fanzhi” Hubei Institute of Fine Arts, Wuhan, China, 1990 “Behind the Mask” Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong, 1995 “Zeng Fanzhi Works 1993-1998” CIFA Gallery, the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China, 1998 “I/We, 1991-2003, The Paintings of Zeng Fanzhi” Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China, 2003 “Scapes 1989-2004, The Paintings of Zeng Fanzhi” He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China, 2004 “Hero, Zeng Fanzhi solo exhibition” Art Basel Miami 06, Miami, USA, 2006 “Zeng Fanzhi – Paintings” Wedel Fine Art, London, United Kingdom, 2006 “Zeng Fanzhi” Musee d'art Moderne, Saint-Etienne Metropole, France, 2007 “Zeng Fanzhi 1989-2007” Gallery HYUNDAI, Seoul, South Korea, 2007 “Zeng Fanzhi Idealism” Singapore Art Museum, Singapore, Singapore, 2007 “Zeng Fanzhi” Godia Fundation, Barcelona, Spain, 2009 “Art Beijing 2009—Zeng Fanzhi” Agricultural Exhibition Centre, Beijing, China, 2009 “Zeng Fanzhi” Shanghai Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China, 2010 “Zeng Fanzhi” Gagosian Gallery, Hong Kong, 2011