Resume (Short Version)
Education
1992-1996 Academy of Art University, MFA Sculpture, San Francisco, California
1980-1985 Lu Xun Academy of Fine Art, BFA Sculpture, Shengyang, Liaoning Province, China
Teaching Experience
2015-Present San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, Califorina
2012-2013 California College of The Arts, Oakland, California
2010-2012 Department of Art Practice, University of California, Berkeley, California
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, California, "Witness"
2019 Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, California. " Wanxin Zhang: The Long Journey"
2017 Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, California, "Fahrenheit"
2015 Peninsula Museum of Art, Burlingame, California, "Clay Nation"
2014 Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, California, "Totem"
2013 Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, California. "Wanxin Zhang'' Ceramic Sculptures
Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico. "Wanxin Zhang's New Works"
Group Shows (Selected)
2022 "REAL ID" Consumnes River College Art Gallery, Sacramento, California
2020 "The Body, the Object, the Other" Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles, California
"Making in Between: Contemporary Chinese American Ceramics" American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, California
2019 "Richard Shaw and Wanxin Zhang" Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma, California
2018 "Richard Shaw and Wanxin Zhang" Santa Clara University Gallery. Santa Clara, California
"Forty artists" Sonoma State University, University Art Gallery, Rohnert Park, California
"Raphaelle Goethals and Wanxin Zhang" .Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2017 "They're Fired" Bernice Steinbaum gallery, Miami, Florida
"Sabbath" Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, California
"The 1st Anren Biennale" Chengdu, China
"From Funk to Punk" Left Coast Ceramics, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
"Bay Area Clay -A legacy of social consciousness" Arts Benicia, Benicia, California
"Bay Area Clay" Hoffman gallery of Contemporary, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon
"Riseup" Art as action Minnesota street project, San Francisco, California
"With liberty and justice for some" Walter Maciel Gallery: Los Angeles, California
2016 "Marking Our Mark" Richmond Art Center, Richmond, California
"Fired Up: Monumental Clay" Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, California
"Between worlds" ARC Gallery, San Francisco. Califorina
Holly Roberts & Wanxin Zhang: Mind Made Up" Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2015 "Character Studies" San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California
"Natural Substance" Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Palm Desert, California
2014 "Collision and Confluence" Asian Cultural Center, New York, New York
"Local Clay Heavies" Trax Gallery, Berkeley, California
"Transmigrational Ceramics from the Corridor" Benicia Museum of Art, Benicia, California
2013 "Form and Figure" Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Palm Desert, California
"DaTong 2nd International Sculpture Biennial" Datong, Shanxi, China
"Visiting Artists Exhibition" Bray North Gallery, Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, Montana
"Figuratively Speaking" SMAart Gallery, San Francisco, California
Workshops, Lectures and Panels
2015 Guest Lecturer, Ceramic Program, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, Califorinia
2014 MFA Study Artist Mentor, Lesley University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Visiting Artist, San Jose State University, San Jose, California
Panelist, "Fired in Oakland" Ceramic Symposium, ArtMurMur, Oakland, California
2013 Visiting Artist, Clay Workshop, Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, Montana
Award and Grants (Selected)
2017 Jury Award Winner of "Sabbath"exhibition,Contemoporary Jewish Museum,San Francisco,CA
2012 Montana Arts Council, Artist-in-residence, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana
2008 Taiwan Ceramics Biennale, Finalist Prize, Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taiwan
Public Collections (Selected)
Academy of Art University, San Francisco, Califorina
American Museum of Ceramic Art, Pomona, CA
Annie Wong Art Foundation, Hong Kong, China
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, California.
Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
City of Albuquerque, Albuquerque, New Mexico
City of Dalian, LiaoNing Province, China
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, California
Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana
Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida
National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
New Mexico State Art Commission, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Smithsonian American Art Museum (The Renwick Gallery), Washington, DC
UBE Tokiwa Museum, Yamaguchi, Japan
Udinotti Museum of Figurative Art. Paradise Valley, Arizona
University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, Wyoming
Virginia A. Groot Foundation, Evanston, Illinois