Zhang Wei

Quick Facts

Full Name	Zhang Wei
Occupation	Association Football Player
Date Of Birth	Jan 19, 1993(1993-01-19)
Age	31
Birthplace	Nantong
Country	People's Republic of China
Birth City	Nantong
Horoscope	Capricorn

Zhang Wei Biography

Zhang Wei is one of the most popular and richest Association Football Player who was born on January 19, 1993 in Nantong, Nantong, People's Republic of China. Born in Beijing, China, in 1952 into a wealthy family, Zhang Wei grew up in the old style courtyard home of his paternal grandfather—a successful businessman—with his mother and siblings. During The Cultural Revolution the Red Guard destroyed the courtyard. His grandmother was beaten to death and her possessions burned. Zhang’s father died in prison in

1968. In the same year, he was forced to go to the Xiangluo production bridge located in the Shanxi province in order to become an “educated youth” at the age of sixteen. Due to work-related injuries, Zhang was sent back to Beijing for further treatment in 1971 and began to learn to paint on his own.

Shortly after arriving in New York, Zhang Wei first started working with Caroline Hill gallery and subsequently Z Gallery, producing abstract art inspired by the street scenes of Manhattan. Their collaboration ended in 1992. He moved to The West Village, making a living not by painting but by working an assortment of odd jobs. In the later years of Zhang Wei’s New York days, he was active in fighting for the right for artists to sell their art on the streets. He participated in multiple protests, including the famous demonstration for the freedom of speech at the Metropolitan Museum in 1997. Zhang and his friends fought their ‘first amendment right’ fervently up to the Supreme Court, where in 2003 their art was recognized as a protected form of free speech, a precedent that still has validity today.

Zhang’s works have been the subject of important international exhibitions including M+ Sigg Collection: Four Decades of Chinese Contemporary Art at ArtisTree, Hong Kong (2016); Light before Dawn: Unofficial Chinese Art 1974–1985 at Asia Society, Hong Kong (2013); Blooming in the Shadows: Unofficial Chinese Art, 1974–1985 at China Institute Gallery, New York, USA (2011).

In the beginning of 2018, he has subsequently participated in 2 group exhibition at Boers-Li Gallery in Beijing and Galerie Max Hetzler in Berlin and will be one of the three artists of a Chinese abstract art group show at Boers-Li Gallery, New York.

Zhang’s 1984 oil on linen AC10 was acquired by The Art Institute of Chicago in

2005. In 2016, Hong Kong’s M+ Museum of Visual Culture acquired four of his earlier works from mid-1970s and 1980s from Uli Sigg, the renowned Swiss collector of Chinese contemporary art.

Zhang Wei Net Worth

Zhang Wei is one of the richest Association Football Player from People's Republic of China. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Zhang Wei 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Throughout the entire 1970s, Zhang Wei painted from life – mostly landscape and still life. In the early 1980s, he became one of the very few young artists in Beijing who made the earliest attempt at abstract painting. In May 1986, Zhang Wei and friends organized the Graffiti Exhibition which one closed down by the police before it had a chance to open due to the ‘transgressive’ nature of the exhibits. This great disappointment urged active artists at the time to leave the country. Soon after Zhang Wei traveled to America to participate in Avant-Garde Chinese Art, an exhibition organized by Michael Murray from Vassar College. New York had since become his home for the next sixteen years to come.

After returning to Beijing, he had met artists Ma Kelu, Waihai, Zheng Ziyan, Shi Xixi in 1973; also became acquainted later with Zhao Wenliang, Yang Yushu, and Shi Zhenyu. Together they formed an artist group known as the Yu Yuan Tan School of Painting. They would gather in different parks in Beijing painting en plein air. In December 1974, these artists held a quasi-underground exhibition Eleven Artists at Zhang Wei’s house, establishing the foundation for the No Name Group.

Zhang Wei returned to Beijing in September 2005 and continued to be engaged in abstract painting. He picked up his work where he had left it twenty years earlier, combining abstract painting with found objects in an assemblage style. Zhang’s first complete retrospective showcasing his abstract paintings from 1979 to 2012 took place at Boers-Li Gallery in Beijing in 2012, initiating a trend of rediscovering the dawn of Chinese contemporary art.

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Facts & Trivia

Zhang Ranked on the list of most popular Association Football Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in People's Republic of China. Zhang Wei celebrates birthday on January 19 of every year.

Who is Zhang Wei?

Zhang Wei (b. 1952) is regarded as one of the first abstract painters in China. Beginning his career in the 1970s as part of the unofficial artist collective Wuming, Zhang followed the groups intent to express an individual artistic approach apart from the established art forms at that time.

How do you write Zhang Wei in Chinese?

Zhang Wei (simplified Chinese: 张炜 ; traditional Chinese: 張煒; pinyin: Zhāng Wěi; born 7 November 1956) is a Chinese author.

How popular is Wowkie Zhang?

The Flowers has been referred to as China’s “first famous adolescent band”. The band disbanded in 2009, and Da Zhang Wei embarked on his solo career afterwards. Since 2009, he has released five albums and over thirteen singles, achieving a record sales of over five million copies.

Is Zhang Wei a female name?

Is Wei a female name in Chinese? The name Wei is primarily a gender- neutral name of Chinese origin that means Valuable – Brillliant.

How do you pronounce the Chinese name Zhang?

Pronunciation of Zhang Sounds like a mix between John and zon.