Zao Wou-ki – Curriculum Vitae

Zao Wou-ki – Curriculum Vitae
Timeline
1921
Born in Beijing, China on February 13th
1935-41 Studies at the School of Fine Arts in Hangzhou
1948
Moves to Paris
1950
Learns the technique of lithography at the Desjobert printing
1972
Makes his first trip to China since 1948 to see his family
1983
Exhibits for the first time in China since 1948, in Beijing and Hangzhou, at
house
the request of the Chinese Minister of Culture
1988
Writes his autobiography in collaboration with his wife. Artcurial organizes a
retrospective for the 40th anniversary of his arrival.
1995-97 Awarded the Prix de Science pour l'Art (Art section), created in Paris by the
LVMH organisation.
2001
Elected to The Académie des Beaux Arts, Paris, France 2013
On April 9th the artist dies, aged 93 in Switzerland.
Awards and Honours
1984
Elected Officier de la Légion d’Honneur, French Republic, Paris, France 1993
Honorary Doctorate, Chinese University, Hong Kong, China Commandeur de la Légion d’Honneur, French Republic, Paris, France 1994
Praemium Imperiale Award for Painting, The Japanese Art Association, Tokyo,
Japan 2006
Grand Officier de l’Ordre de la Légion d’Honneur, decorated by the French
President, Jacques Chirac, Palais de l’Elysée, Paris, France Solo Exhibitions
2015
Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, Switzerland. 2012
The Prints of Zao Wou-Ki, Oriental Art & Cultural Centre, Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia
Zao Wou-Ki: Beyond, FEAST Projects, Ap Lei Chau, Hong Kong 2011
Zao Wou-Ki Paintings: 1950's - 1960's, de Sarthe Fine Art, Hong Kong
2010
Zao Wou-Ki, Prieuré de Saint Cosme, Indre-et Loire, France
Zao Wou-Ki, Fundação Arpad Szenes, Lisbon, Portugal
2009
Celebrating Zao Wou-Ki, Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong
Zao Wou Ki Porcelaines, L'Arc en Seine, Paris, France
2008
Zao Wou-Ki, Prints and Illustrated Books, Bibliothèque Nationale de France,
Paris, France; exhibition traveled to Suzhou Museum, Suzhou City, China Zao Wou-Ki: Paper and China, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Zao Wou-Ki, L’Encre, l’eau, l’air, la couleur, Musée de l’Hospice Saint-Roch,
Issoudun, France
Zao Wou-Ki: “Hommage à Riopelle” et peintures récentes, Musée National des
Beaux-arts du Québec, Québec, Canada
2007
Zao Wou-Ki, Paintings, Works on Paper, Ceramics 1947-2007, Chateau Musée
de Nemours, Nemours, France
2006 Black and White Dream - India Ink, Suzhou Museum, Suzhou City, China
2005
Paysages interieurs, 1947-2004, Palais Bénédictine, Fécamp France
Zao Wou-Ki, Paintings and India Ink, 1948-2005, Espace Bellevue, Biarritz,
France
2004
Zao Wou-Ki, Bridgestone Museum of Art, Ishibashi Foundation, Tokyo, Japan.
Zao Wou-Ki, Homages, Montpellier, Musée Fabre, France
Zao Wou-Ki, The Quest of Silence: Paintings, Musée des Beaux Arts,
Dunkerque, and Prints and Illustrated Books, Musée du Dessin et de l’Estampe
Originale, Gravelines, France
2003
Zao Wou-Ki, Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong
Zao Wou-Ki, Works from 1950 to 2000, Galerie Vanuxem, Paris, France
Zao Wou-Ki, Retretti Art Center of Taidehalli, Helsinki, Finland
Zao Wou-Ki: Recent Works, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York, USA
2002
Zao Wou-Ki, Rêve de nature, Château de Chenonceau, Chenonceaux, France
2001
Zao Wou-Ki, Institut Valenciá d’Art Modern, Centre Julio González, Valencia,
Spain; traveled to Musée d’Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium
2000
Zao Wou-Ki, Recent India Ink, Institut Français, Barcelona, Spain
Chine, la gloire des empereurs, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville, Paris, France
Zao Wou-Ki, Lin & Keng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
F.I.A.C. represented by Galerie Thessa Herold, Paris, France
Zao Wou-Ki, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Recent India Ink, Galerie Marwan Hass, Paris, France
1999
Zao Wou-Ki, Paintings of the Last 20 Years, Centre d’Art Plastiques, Royan,
France
Zao Wou-Ki, Works from 1948-1999, Lin & Keng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
1998
Zao Wou-Ki, Retrospective, organized by Association Française d’Action
Artistique, L’Oréal and the Shanghai Museum of Art, Shanghai, China; traveled
to the Chinese Palace of Fine Arts, Beijing, China; the Palace of Fine Arts,
Canton, China
Paintings, India Ink, Prints, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Angers, France
Zao Wou-Ki, Paintings and India Ink, Galerie Thessa Herold, ARCO 1998,
Madrid, Spain
1997
Recent Paintings, Galerie Thessa Herold, Paris, France
Zao Wou-Ki, J. Bastien Art, Brussels, Belgium
Lin & Keng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
1996
F.I.A.C, Paris, France. represented by Galerie Jan Krugier, Geneva, Switzerland
Zao Wou-Ki, Recent Works, J. Bastien Art, Brussels, Belgium. Zao Wou-Ki, India Ink-1996: A Tribute to Pierre Matisse, Jan Krugier Gallery,
New York, NY; traveled to Galerie Krugier-Ditesheim, Geneva, Switzerland
1996
Zao Wou-Ki, A Retrospective, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan, China;
traveled to the Museum of Arts, Hong Kong
1995
Paintings from 1962 to 1993, Maison de la Culture, Nevers, France
Ishibashi Museum of Art, Ishibashi Foundation, Kurume, Japan
Zao Wou-Ki, Retrospective, Caja de Ahorros, Saragossa, Spain
1994
Zao Wou-Ki, Cuarenta años de pintura, 1954-1994, Centro Cultural de Arte
Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico
1993
Zao Wou-Ki, Recent Paintings, Galerie Sapone, Nice, France
Zao Wou-Ki, Recent Works, Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong
Zao Wou-Ki Retrospective, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
1992
Paintings, Château de Vianden, Vianden, Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg
Retrospective of Zao Wou-Ki: Paintings (1955-1992), Centre Cultural Noroît,
Arras, France
India Ink, Musée National, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Grand-Duchy of
Luxembourg
1992
Zao Wou-Ki, Oils and Watercolors, Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon,
Portugal
Recent Paintings, Galerie Artcurial, Paris, France
L’Encre, l’eau, l’air, Galerie Marwan Hoss, Paris, France
1991
Prints, Galerie Artcurial, Paris, France Private Collection, 1955-1989, Vasarely Foundation, Aix-en-Provenance, France
1990
Paintings, India Ink and Prints, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tours, France
Zao Wou-Ki, Ten Inks, Galerie Kutter, Luxembourg, Grand-Duchy of
Luxembourg
Paintings and India Ink, Galerie Jan Krugier, Geneva, Switzerland
1988
Zao Wou-Ki, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Metz, France
Galerie Jan Krugier, Geneva, Switzerland Zao Wou-Ki, 1955-1988, Galerie Artcurial, Paris, France
1987
Galerie Kutter, Luxembourg, Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg
Paintings, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1986
India Ink, French Cultural Center, Rome, Italy
Zao Wou-Ki: Paintings, 1980-1985, Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1985
Engravings, Galerie Editart D. Blanco, Geneva, Switzerland
Galerie de France, Paris, France
Engravings, Galerie Artcurial, Paris, France. 1984
Zao Wou-Ki, Traces (India Ink), Jan Krugier Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
Zao Wou-Ki, 1984, Galerie de France, Paris, France
1983
F.I.A.C., represented by Galerie de France, Paris, France. Zao Wou-Ki ou se Libérer du Connu, Musée Ingres, Montauban, France;
traveled to Espace des Cordeliers, Châteauroux, France; the National Museum
of Fine Arts, Beijing, China; Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou, China
1983
National Museum of History, Taipei, Taiwan; traveled to the House of Culture,
Tai-Nan and Prefectoral Library, Tai-Chung, Taiwan 1982
Zao Wou-Ki, A Solo Exhibition of Paintings, National Museum Art Gallery,
Singapore, Singapore
Paintings by Zao Wou-Ki, 1954-1981, Hong Kong Arts Center, Hong Kong
1981
Zao Wou-Ki, Prints, Printmakers Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
1981
Zao Wou-Ki, Paintings, India Ink, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris,
France; traveled through Japan to Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka; Grand Art
Gallery, Tokyo-Nihonbashi, Tokyo; Fukui Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukui;
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura
1980
Zao Wou-Ki, Paintings and Drawings, 1976-1980, Pierre Matisse Gallery, New
York, New York, USA
Recent India Ink, Galerie de France, Paris, France
Large Paintings, 1964-1979, Musée d’Histoire et d’Art, Luxembourg, GrandDuchy of Luxembourg Large Paintings by Zao Wou-Ki, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi, Belgium
1979
Zao Wou-Ki, Recent Works, Galerie Kutter, Luxembourg, Grand-Duchy of
Luxembourg
1978
Zao Wou-Ki, En Torno al Gesto, Galería Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain
Recent Paintings, F.I.A.C., represented by Galerie de France, Paris, France
1977
Fondation Veranneman, Kruishoutem, Belgium
Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyort in Tokyo, Japan
1975
Contemporary Art III, Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Georges
Pompidou, Paris, France
Zao Wou-Ki - Paintings and Works on Paper, May Zao: Sculptures, Maison de la
Culture et des Loisirs, Saint-Etienne, France
Zao Wou-Ki, 1971-1975, Galerie de France, Paris, France
Delta International Art Center, Beirut, Lebanon 1974
Zao Wou-Ki - Paintings, Watercolors, Prints, Heimeshoff Galerie, Essen,
Germany
Galerij Nicolas, Amsterdam, Holland
Galeria Diprove, Lisbon and Oporto, Portugal
Zao Wou-Ki, Watercolors, India Ink, Paintings and Prints, Galerie Kutter,
Luxembourg, Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg
1973
Zao Wou-Ki, Paintings, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Neuchâtel, Switzerland. 1972
Paintings by Zao Wou-Ki, Galerie Protée, Toulouse, France
Honorary exhibition of Inks by Zao Wou-Ki and Sculptures by May Zao, Galerie
1970
Recent Works by Zao Wou-Ki, Galerie de France, Paris, France
Galerie Gerald Cramer, Geneva, Switzerland
Zao Wou-Ki, Paintings, Sommerakademie für Bildende Kunst, Salzburger
Künstlerhaus, Salzburg, Austria
1969
Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montréal, Canada
Musée du Québec, Quebec, Canada
1968
Paintings by Zao Wou-Ki, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco,
California, USA
Frank Perls Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
1967
Galerie de France, Zao Wou-Ki - Recent Works, Galerie de France, Paris, France
1965
Zao Wou-Ki at Kootz, Kootz Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Etchings and Lithographs by Zao Wou-Ki, S.H. Mori, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Zao Wou-Ki - Watercolors, Engravings, Lithographs, Graphische Sammlung
Albertina, Vienna, Austria
Zao Wou-Ki - A Retrospective, Paintings 1950-1964, Folkwang Museum, Essen,
Germany
1964
Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, United States. New Paintings by Zao Wou-Ki, Kootz Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1963
Redfern Gallery, London, England
Galerie de France, Paris, France
1962
The Wonderful World of Zao Wou-Ki, Kootz Gallery, New York, NY USA
La Tentation de l’Occident, Galerie La Hune, Paris, France
1961
Kootz Gallery, New York, New York, United States. Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1960
Galerie de France, Paris, France. traveled to Stuttgart, Germany 1959
New Paintings, Kootz Gallery, New York, New York, United States
1957
Paintings, Galerie de France, Paris, France
1956
Kleemann Galleries, New York, New York, United States. 1955
Galerie Pierre, Paris, France. 1954 Zao Wou-Ki - Paintings, Galleria del Sole, Milan, Italy; traveled to New York, NY
Retrospective of his engravings, The Cincinnati Museum of Fine Arts,
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
1953
New Paintings, Cadby-Birch Gallery, New York, New York, United States
Moderne Galerie Otto Stangl, Munich, Germany
1952
Hanover Gallery, London, England
Cadby-Birch Gallery, New York, New York, United States
Main Street Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, United States Zao Wou-Ki - Recent Works, Galerie Pierre, Paris, France
1951
Galerie Klipstein, Bern, Switzerland. 1951
Galerie Feigel, Basel, Switzerland. 1951
Lecture par Henri Michaux de Huit Lithographies de Zao Wou-Ki, Galerie La
Hune, Paris, France
1951
Zao Wou-Ki, Paintings, Galerie Pierre, Paris, France
1949
Galerie Creuze, Paris, France
1947
Zao Wou-Ki, Ta-Hsin Department Store, Shanghai, China
1941
Sino-Soviétic Association, Tchouang King, China
Group Exhibitions
2012
Voyage of Discovery, Chinese Culture Center, Paris, France. 2009
Zao Wou Ki Porcelaines, L'art en Seine, Paris, France. 2009
Art Paris ’09, Grand Palais, Paris, France. 2008
2008 Art-Link Ueno-Yanaka, Tokyo, Japan. (with the Ueno Royal Museum’s Art
of Our Time) Notable Collections
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut, United States Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, United States Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England Veranneman Foundation, Kruishoutem, Belgium The Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan The Tate Gallery, London, England The Tate Gallery, Liverpool, England Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel Taiwan Museum of Art, Tai-Chung, Taiwan Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan Suzhou Musem, Suzhou, China Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States Sara Hildénin Taidemuseo, Tampere, Finland San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, United States Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States Nobutaka Shikanei Collection, Tokyo, Japan Nippon Broadcasting System, Inc, Tokyo, Japan National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan National Museum of History, Taipei, Taiwan National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan National Institute of Fine Arts, Beijing, China Nagaoka Contemporary Art Museum, Nagaoka, Japan The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, United States Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, United States Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, United States Museu Nacional de Arte Moderna, Porto, Portugal Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil Museo Tamayo de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao, Spain Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico Musée d’Unterlinden, Colmar, France Musée de la Poste, Paris, France Musée Pierre Noël, Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, France Musée Olympique, Lausanne, Switzerland, Lausanne, Switzerland Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec, Québec, QC, Canada Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France Musée Ingres, Montauban, France Musée de l’Hospice Saint-Roch, Issoudun, France Musée d’Histoire et d’Art, Luxembourg, Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg Musée Greuze, Tournus, France Musée Fabre, Montpellier, France Musée de l’Ancien Evêché, Evreux, France Musée du Dessin et de l’Estampe Originale, Gravelines, France Musée Bertrand, Châteauroux, France Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tours, France Musée des Beaux-Arts de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec City, Canada Musée des Beaux-Arts, Orléans, France Musée des Beaux-Arts, Montréal, Canada Musée des Beaux-Arts, Le Havre, France Musée des Beaux-Arts et d’Histoire Naturelle, Valence, France Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Metz, France Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, “Fondation Gerald Cramer”, Geneva, Switzerland Musée d’Art Contemporain, Skopja, Macedonia Musée d’Art Moderne, Musées Royaux de Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, United States Lieu d’Art et d’Action Contemporaine, Dunkerque, France Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan Jakarta Museum, Jakarta, Indonesia Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States
Iwaki City Art Museum, Fukushima, Japan Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, China Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, United States The Hakone Open-Air Museum, Hakone-Machi, Japan Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York, United States Grand-Ducal Collections, Luxembourg, Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg Galerie der Stadt, Etta and Otto Stangl Collection, Stuttgart, Germany Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Genoa, Italy Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris, France Fondation Vincent Van Gogh, Arles, France Fondation François Pinault, Paris, France Fondation Collection Thyssen-Bornemisza, Castagnola, Switzerland Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Finch Art College Museum, New York, New York, United States École Nationale Normale Supérieure, Lyon, France Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan, United States Collection Nesto Jacometti, Pinacoteca Comunale Casa Rusca, Locarno, Switzerland Civica Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Milan, Italy Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States Centro Cultural de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico Bridgestone Museum of Art, Ishibashi Foundation, Tokyo, Japan Bibliothèque Royale Albert 1er de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium Bibliothéque Nationale de France, Paris, France Berkeley University, Medical Research Center, Los Angeles, California, United States Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States Atlanta Art Center, Atlanta, Georgia, United States Atenaeum Museum, Helsinki, Finland Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada