International Wood Firing Conference & Workshop

1959 Born in Huazhou, Guangdong, P.R. China

1990 Enrolled Master degree in Arts and Crafts Department of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts.

1992 “Ceramics by Wenzhi Zhang” in Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts.

1993 Graduated with Master de” gree and worked in Guangdong Academy of Painting.

1994 “Red and Black • Gold and Silver”-Guangdong Fine Arts Exhibition .

1995 Textile work ” Earth • Ocean” • “Soft and Hard” • “Weeping Birds” participated in “Chinese Women Artists Invitational Exhibition” in China Arts Museum.

1996 Exhibition “Ceramics by Wenzhi Zhang”was held in school galley of The Illinois State University

1996 Work of ” Wine Community” were selected into “Ceramic Country-China Contemporary Ceramics Exhibition” hosted by China Ministry of Culture.

1997 Work of “Chinese” participated in “Century Women Artists Invitational Exhibition”.

1998 “98Ceramics by Wenzhi Zhang” in China Arts Museum .

1998 “God’s Messengers NO.1, NO.5, NO.7 collected by China National Art Gallery.

1999 Member of the Ceramic Education Commission of the United States.

2000 Curator of “2000 China Foshan Wood Firing Symposium”

2002 Chief Director of “China Foshan International Ceramic Conference 2002″

2004 Work of large ceramic relief mural painting “Dongping River Record” was selected into “10th National Fine Arts Work Exhibition”

2004 Invitated by New York University (USA) and Lake Superior College in Duluth(USA)for lectures.

2005 “A New Mankind. My Family” Wenzhi Zhang Contemporary Sculpture.

2005 Chief Director of “The 7th Asia art festival.”

2005 Invitated by Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts for lectures.

Publish

Through 20 years hard working, over 200 pieces of works and over 10 essays were published on over 60 magazines, books and over 40 newspapers. During 1999—2001 , documentary film “Life be fired—Modern Pottery Artist Wenzhi Zhang” was palyed in CCTV, Guangdong TV, Guangzhou TV, Beijing TV, Shanghai TV, Zhejiang TV, Shenzhen TV, Foshan TV etc for many times. There were main magazines such as “Art”,”Art Observation”, “Art Study”, “Sculpture”, “Jiangsu Painting Magazine”, “Art Community”, “Gallery”, “China Women”, “China Today” in 6 languages etc. There were main newspapers such as “People Daily”, “People Daily Oversea”, “South Daily”, “Yangcheng Evening Paper”, “Guangzhou Daily”, “Dagong Paper”, “Wenhui Paper”, “Xinmin Evening Paper” etc. There were main books such as “China Contemporary Pottery Art”, “World Mordern Pottery Art Conspectus”, American textbook “Hands in Clay”, “China Contemporary Art” and “China Fine Arts Corpora”.

1993 Book “Art of Contemporary Materials” issued by Lingnan Fine Art Publishing House

2001 Ceramic Classroom” published by Hunan Literary Publishing House

2001 “Millennium Fire” published by Renmin Fine Art Publishing House

2003 Chief editor of “Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Ceramics”, “Invitational Exposition of International Ceramics”, “Exhibition of World Building Ceramics”, “Exhibition of Shiwan Ceramics”, “International Ceramic Art”, “Design and Use of World Building Ceramics”.