Zhang Dali (Chinese: 张大力, born 1963, in Harbin, China) is an artist based in Beijing. Zhang trained at the Central Academy of Fine Arts and Design , where he graduated in 1987. After his studies, he moved to Yuanmingyuan as a freelance artist (1987–1989) and started to show his works in independent exhibitions.

Zhang Dali is a contemporary Chinese artist known for his sculptures, graffiti, and paintings. View Zhang Dali’s 269 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices.

Zhang Dali was born in Harbin (China) in 1963. Zhang Dali has worked on many subjects and with several techniques. He is a multifaceted artist, always experimenting in new ways to express the reality beyond reality, expose social problems and human condition. He uses painting, graffiti, sculpture, photography, installation and performance.

Zhang Dali’s work actively engages with the rapidly changing environment in China. Zhang started working in portraiture as one of Beijing’s first graffiti artists, spraying and carving heads into the walls of the hundreds of buildings scheduled for destruction.

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New Photography 2011: Moyra Davey, George Georgiou, Deana Lawson, Doug Rickard, Viviane Sassen, Zhang Dali. Sep 28, 2011–Jan 16, 2012. MoMA

Zhang Dali, born in Harbin in 1963, enrolled at the Central Academy of Fine Arts and Design in 1983 (now Tsinghua University Institute of Fine Arts). After graduating in 1987, Zhang Dali became an eminent exponent of the first generation of independent professional artists.

Zhang Dali (born 1963) is a contemporary Chinese artist known for his incisive social and political critique, often targeting the rapid urban transformation and loss of cultural identity in modern China.

Zhang Dali (Chinese, b.1963) was born in Harbin, China, and studied at the Beijing Academy of Art & Design. After finishing school, he traveled to Italy, where he discovered Graffiti Art. In the 1990s, he was the only Graffiti artist in Beijing.

An influential figure in socio-political artistic movements in China, Zhang Dali has, for decades, challenged the conventional with his social documentation in graffiti, sculpture, photography, and painting.