曾梵志,1964年生于中国武汉,毕业于湖北美术学院油画系,现于北京居住和创作。他曾在多个博物馆举行个人展览,包括新加坡美术馆的「曾梵志:理想主义」(2007)、圣艾蒂安现代美术馆的「曾梵志」(2007)、巴塞罗纳高弟基金会的「曾梵志」(2009)及上海外滩美术馆的「2010·曾梵志」(2010)。他亦曾于2013至2014年在巴黎现代艺术博物馆举行大型回顾展。在2014年于卢浮宫举行的展览中,他的作品《从1830年至今No.4》(2014)与欧仁·德拉克罗瓦的名作《自由领导人民》(1830)并列展出。曾梵志的作品也参与多个联展,包括第53届威尼斯双年展(2009)、意大利威尼斯格拉西宫的「世界属于你」(2011-2012)、成都当代美术馆的「历史之路—威尼斯双年展与中国当代艺术20年」(2013)、纽约大都会艺术博物馆的「水墨艺术:当代中国艺术的今夕与共」(2013-2014)、伦敦萨奇美术馆的「后波普艺术:东西交汇」(2014-2015)以及北京UCCA当代艺术中心的大型个展「曾梵志:散步」(2016)。
Zeng Fanzhi was born in Wuhan, China in 1964, graduated from Hubei Institute of Fine Arts (HIFA), and now lives and works in Beijing. Solo museum exhibitions include “Zeng Fanzhi: Idealism,” Singapore Art Museum (2007); “Zeng Fanzhi,” Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne de Metropole (2007); “Zeng Fanzhi,” Fundación Godia, Barcelona (2009); and “2010: Zeng Fanzhi,” Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai (2010). Zeng’s work was the subject of a major retrospective at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in 2013-14. In a specially commissioned exhibition at the Musée du Louvre in 2014, his painting From 1830 till now No. 4 (2014) was shown alongside Eugène Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People (1830). Zeng’s work was included in the 53rd Venice Biennale (2009); “The World Belongs to You,” Palazzo Grassi, Venice (2011-12); “Passage to History: 20 Years of La Biennale di Venezia and Chinese Contemporary Art,” Arsenale di Venezia and Museum of Contemporary Art Chengdu (2013); “Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China,” Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2013-14); “Post Pop: East Meets West,” Saatchi Gallery, London (2014-15); and large solo exhibition “Zeng Fanzhi: Parcours”, UCCA, Beijing (2016).