1982年生于中国新疆，2003年毕业于新疆艺术学院。赵赵自始至终都持续着颠覆性的方式进行创作，他热衷于利用各种艺术媒介对现实及其艺术形态传统惯例提出挑战，其各种领域的作品旨在探讨个体自由意志的力量和权威控制的力度。他在创作中关注并且展现当代剧变中的中国，并且直面人类内心的苦痛和压力。其作品中不时出现威胁与风险的概念，暗喻当今中国和全球背景下人们的生活境遇，以及在现代社会中的短暂与无常。同时，作品也反映了他对集体主义与个人理想相互并存的思考。
近年来，赵赵大胆激进的艺术实践赢得国际社会的重视，他曾在柏林亚历山大·奥克斯画廊、斯德哥尔摩Carl Kostyál基金会、洛杉矶Roberts & Tilton、纽约前波画廊、台北大未来林舍画廊、北京当代唐人艺术中心、北京艺术文件仓库等机构举办过个展与个人项目。他的作品也曾参加过多个机构的群展，包括美国纽约MoMA PS1、美国佛罗里达州坦帕美术馆、乌克兰基辅平丘克艺术中心、荷兰格罗宁根美术馆、德国柏林亚洲艺术博物馆、意大利米兰帕迪廖内当代艺术馆、西班牙卡斯特罗当代艺术中心、上海民生现代美术馆、北京尤伦斯当代艺术中心、日本横滨三年展等。其作品《塔克拉玛干计划》被选为2017 “横滨三年展” 海报、画册的背景图。同年赵赵被CoBo评选为中国艺术家Top 10，获第十一届AAC艺术中国年度青年艺术家提名奖，2014年被Modern Painters列为全球最值得关注的25位艺术家之一。
Born in Xinjiang, 1982, Zhao Zhao graduated from the Xinjiang Institute of Arts, 2003.
All along Zhao Zhao was making work with a subversive appeal of its own, keens on raising challenges on the reality and its traditional practice of art form through a various art media. Zhao Zhao is known for making sculptures, paintings and installations which examine the power of individual free will and the dynamics of state control. Zhao Zhao’ s works attest to and touch on the awareness of a generation faced with dramatic change. Constantly confronted with the subject of world oppression. Notions of threat or risk are regularly present in his works, referring to the life he lives both locally and within today’s global context, as a method of questioning the historical impermanence in our contemporary society.
He is very reflective on how concerns of the collectivity co-exist with the individual’s daily expectations and dreams. His provocative, multidisciplinary artist practice has garnered him international attention in recent years, includes solo shows in galleries such as Alexander Ochs Galleries (Berlin, Germany), Carl Kostyál foundation (Stockholm, Sweden), Roberts & Tilton (Log Angeles, USA), Chambers Fine Art (New York, USA), Lin & Lin Gallery (Taipei), Tang Contemporary Art ( Beijing, China ), CAAW ( Beijing, China ).
He has received the support from many international institutions, among which are listed MOMA PS1 – The Museum of Modern Art (New York, USA), Tampa Museum of Art (Florida, USA), Pinchuk Art Centre (Kiev, Ukraine) , Groninger Museum (Groningen, Netherlands), Museum of Asian Art (Berlin, Germany), Padiglione D’Arte Contemporanea (Milan, Italy), Premi internacional d’art contemporani diputació de castelló (Castelló, Spain), Minsheng Art Museum (Shanghai, China) and UCCA (Beijing, China).
The Project Taklamakan of his was elected as the background picture of 2017 Yokohama Triennale Poster and catalog. At the same year, he was appraised as Top 10 Chinese artist by CoBo and obtained the award nomination of Chinese annual young artist in 11th ACC (Award of Art China) and one of Modern Painters “25 Artists to Watch”.
