Artist Zhang Peili. Zhang Peili (born 1957) is a Chinese contemporary artist. Considered the father of video art in China he works mainly with installation and video. [1]

Zhang Peili (simplified Chinese: 张培莉; traditional Chinese: 張培莉; pinyin: Zhāng Péilì; born 1941), or Zhang Beili (simplified Chinese: 张蓓莉; traditional Chinese: 張蓓莉; pinyin: Zhāng Bèilì), is a Chinese geologist and the wife of former Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao.

2025年2月2日 · Chinese, born 1957

2017年5月5日 · In 1988, Chinese artist Zhang Peili presented one of his artworks on a television screen at a conference in Huangshan. The piece, a three-hour video, titled 30×30, has...

2017年7月9日 · Considered the first Chinese artist to work in video, Zhang Peili (born 1957) is a pioneering figure in the history of contemporary art. Zhang’s distinctive videos focus on the repetition of actions—breaking a mirror, reading, washing, looking out the window, and dancing—that are familiar yet rendered disorienting through Zhang’s use of ...

2024年10月22日 · Just 10 years after Deng Xiaoping, the former leader of the People’s Republic of China, launched the country’s sweeping economic reforms, a time when television and video cameras were still largely inaccessible to the general public, the artist Zhang Peili made a revolutionary artwork.

2020年5月29日 · Zhang Peili was born in 1957 in Hangzhou, not far from Shanghai, in Zhejiang Province. He graduated in 1984 with an MFA in painting from the prestigious Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts (now the China Academy of Art).

Zhang Peili is a central figure in Chinese contemporary art: he was the first artist to work in video in China. His clean, incisive video works, infused with sharp social and political commentaries, have made him a pioneer in video art internationally.

Zhang Peili is a Chinese artist known for his pioneering work in video, exploring themes of social and political control. View Zhang Peili’s artworks on artnet. Learn about the artist and find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks, the latest news, and sold auction prices.

Credited by some as the father of video art in China, Zhang Peili also works with digital media, as well as painting, sculpture, and installation, often exploring image construction in the media and our perceptions of reality.