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Biography of Zhao Bandi
Born in Beijing in 1966.
Education
Zhao graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts Oil Painting Department, Beijing in 1988. His practices encompass photography, video and performance.
Influences
In works inspired by public service information and government propaganda, the artist and his toy panda engage in a sharp, deadpan dialogue. He uses humor and the persona of Pandaman to tackle difficult issues of concern to contemporary society.
Since the 1990s, Zhao has used the panda to symbolize China's one child policy, to produce social and political commentaries on authority and power, and to act as his playful character in a series of odd and comical images. He lives and works in Beijing.
Exhibitions of Zhao Bandi
Solo Exhibitions:
2008
- ShanghART Night - Zhao Bandi gracefully reaches Shanghai with his Panda Couture, Shanghai Jinmao Shengrong Yacht, Bund, Shanghai, China.
2007
- Bandi Panda Fashion Show - Chinese International Fashion Week (08 Spring/Summer), Central Hall, D. Park, 798 Art Zone, Beijing, China.
2006
- The Tales of Zhao Bandi and the Panda - ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai.
2004
- Zhao Bandi - Ikon Gaellery, Birmingham (England)
- Uh-oh! Pandaman - Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester (England)
2002
- The panda and I - Franco Riccardo arti visive, Naples
2001
- Zhao Bandi and the Panda, Macau
2000
- Zhao Bandi and the Panda, posters affixed at Pudong International Airport, Shanghai
1999
- Zhao Bandi and the Panda, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai
1994
- Moonfight, Installations, Hanmo Art Center, Beijing
1992
- A New Painting by Zhao Bandi, Beijing, Central fine Arts Academy
Group Exhibitions
2008
- Body Media, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2007
- Individual Positions 1, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai, China
- Zhuyi!-Contemporary Chinese Photography, Artium; Basque Museun-Center of Contemporary Art; Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
- Art 38 Basel, Art Fair Switzerland
- Floating-New Generation of Art in China, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
- ShanghART Autumn Exhibition, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai, China
- 2007 Shanghai Art Fair, Art Fair Shanghai WTO Mall, Shanghai, China
2006
- News, Beijing Commune, Beijing, China.
- They discovered that the Camera is better than the Paintbrush, LONGRUN ART Beijing China
- The 5th AsiaPacific Triennial of Contemporary Art
- Tales with the Panda, Shanghart H-Space, Dec 16-Jan 30
2005
- The Wall-Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, University at Buffalo Art Galleries, Buffalo, New York, USA; Millennium Art Museum, Beijing
- Bandi 2008 Olympic, a huge event in Bern, Switzerland.
2004
- Dreaming of the Dragon - Irish Museum of Modern Art - IMMA, Dublin
- Group Show - ShangART Gallery, Shanghai
- Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video From China - ICP - Internatioal Center of Photography, New York City, NY.
2003
- Zooming into Focus - Contemporary Chinese Photography from the Haudenschild Collection - San Diego State University Art Gallery, San Diego, CA.
2002
- Reinterpretation: A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art / 1ste Guangzhou Triennial - The Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, Guangdong.
- Subjectivity - Photography of Themselves - ASU Art Museum - Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ.
2001
- Inside the body, ISE Foundation, New York, USA
- Hotpot Kinesisk Samtidskunst, Hustnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway
2000
- Dystopia + Identity in the Age of Global Communications, (curated by Cristine Wang), Tribes Gallery, New York, USA
- Lo spazio e la pelle, Milano
- Shanghai Biennale, (curated by Hou Hanru, Toshio Shimizu, Zhang Qing, Li Xu), Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
- Zhao Bandi and the Panda, public welfare posters, Pudong Airport, Shanghai
- Zhao Bandi and the Panda, public welfare posters, Milan public spaces, Italy
- Zhao Bandi and the Panda, public welfare posters, Huaihai Rd. Shanghai
1999
- Love: Chinese Contemorary Photography & Video International Arts Festival - Tachikawa 99, Japan
- Balanced Experience: A Project for the Future of Biological City, Shenzhen, China
- 48 Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
- Zhao Bandi and the Panda, posters affixed in the subway stations of Beijingk, sydney Biennial, Australia
1998
- Chinese Story 2000, calendar, published in Sydney, Australia
1997
- 25x25x25cm Exchange of Earth between China and Britain, Beijing, London
1996
- 30x30x30cm Exchange of Earth between China and Germany, Beijing, Munich
- China - Aktuelles aus 15 Ateliers - Performances - Installationen, Munich
- Zhao Bandi and Zhang Qianqian, calendar, published by China Today Publishing Co. Beijing
1995
- Configura 2, Erfurt, Germany
- Sculptures form Four Countries, Stuttgart, Germany
1994
- Moon-Flight, Installation, Hanmo Art Center, Beijing
1993-4
- China Avant-garde, an itinerant Exhibition, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Kunsthall, Rotterdam, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, Great Britain; Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark; and Art Gallery, Heldesheim, Germany
1993
- Red Stars over China, Keen Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
- China's New Art Post '89, Hong Kong and Sydney
1992
- A New Painting by Zhao Bandi, The Art Gallery of the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
1991
- The 4th Gallery, Beijing
- Zhao Bandi and Li Tianyuan, Universe Building, Beijing
1989
- 23rd Monte Carlo International Painting Exhibition, Monte Carlo
