Zhang Peili

Chinese | 1957

Zhang Peili is a Chinese Asian Modern & Contemporary painter who was born in 1957. Their work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Ennova Art Museum in Langfang. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Kunsthalle Praha have featured Zhang Peili's work in the past.Zhang Peili's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 813 USD to 2,964,772 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2006 the record price for this artist at auction is 2,964,772 USD for Series "X"? No. 3, sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong in 2011. Zhang Peili has been featured in articles for ArtDaily, e-flux and Ocula. The most recent article is Six Exhibitions to See in Beijing in February written for Art Basel Stories in January 2025.

Artist's alternative names: Peili Zhang

At Auction

Notable Lots

PROFILE OF THE SAXOPHONIST

By Zhang Peili

+6%

above mid-estimate

Profile of the Saxophonist ,1986

By Zhang Peili

+435%

above mid-estimate

Artistic Project No. 2 ,2004

By Zhang Peili

+112%

above mid-estimate

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Recent Auction Results

PROFILE OF THE SAXOPHONIST

By Zhang Peili

+6%

above mid-estimate

China Guardian Auctions, Beijing

Wording ,1991

By Zhang Peili

China Guardian Auctions, Beijing

Children's Paradise ,1992

By Zhang Peili

China Guardian Auctions, Beijing

VIEW 38 AUCTION RESULTS

Current Exhibitions

Zhang Peili

Red Brick Art Museum

Chaoyang | Beijing | China

Oct 29,2024 - Mar 02,2025

Etched in Time: The Experience and Transformation of Contemporary Art Collection in China

Ennova Art Museum

Langfang | China

Apr 29,2024 - Jun 07,2027

Past Exhibitions

Elmgreen & Dragset: READ

Kunsthalle Praha

Prague | Czech Republic

Nov 16,2023 - Apr 22,2024

VIEW 51 EXHIBITIONS

Articles

Six Exhibitions to See in Beijing in February

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Coverage

“ ..Zhang's distinctive videos focus on the repetition of actions—breaking a mirror, reading, washing, looking out the window, and dancing—that are familiar yet rendered disorienting through Zhang's use of... ”
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The Art Institute of Chicago

“ ..Peili is seen wearing a dog mask – partially due to shyness and partially due to the absurdity of celebrity artists – as she advertises the prices of the artworks on view... ”
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Klein Sun Gallery

“ ..Zhang’s work is based on repetition and restriction and it initiates a complex interaction between power and the undermining of it... ”
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SMAK, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst

“ ..Zhang Peili’s video works offers wry social critique and suggest political contexts against a backdrop of collective memory, personal experience and states of mind... ”
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Govett-Brewster Art Gallery

“ ..Whether by systematically smashing and repairing a mirror, or systematically feeding language through translation software, Zhang’s work enacts an applied system and logic that ultimately reveals uncertainty... ”
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MAAP Space