1963 Born in Harbin , China
1987 Graduated from National Academy of Fine Arts and Design
Now lives and works in Beijing 

Solo Exhibitions 

1989 “Wash Painting Exhibition”, Gallery of the National Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
1993 “Zhang Dali: Pitture a Inchiostro”, Galleria Studio 5, Bologna, Italy
1994 “Rivoluzione e Violenza”, Galleria Studio 5, Bologna, Italy
1999 “Dialogue and Demolition”, The Courtyard Gallery, Beijing, China
“Dialogue”, Chinese Contemporary Gallery, London, UK,
2000 “AK-47”, The Courtyard Gallery, Beijing, China,
“Headlines”, Chinese Contemporary Gallery, London, UK
“Beijing’s Face”, Base Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2003 “AK-47”, Galleria Gariboldi, Milan, Italy
“AK-47”, Galleria Il Traghetto, Venice, Italy,
2004 “New Works by Zhang Dali”, Chinese Contemporary Gallery, London, UK
2005 “Sublimation”, Beijing Commune Gallery, Beijing, China
2006 “Zhang Dali：A Second History”, Walsh Gallery, Chicago, USA
2007 “Chinese Offspring”, Chinese Contemporary Gallery, New York, USA
2008 “The Road to Freedom”, Red Star Gallery, Beijing, China
“Slogans”, Kiang Gallery, Atlanta, USA
2009 “Pervasion”, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
“Il sogno proibito della nuova Cina”, Plazzo Inghilteraa,Turin, Italy
“The Second History”, Space SZ Gallery, Beijing, China
2010 “The Second History”, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
“Zhang Dali – Solo Show”, 18 Gallery, Shanghai, China
“Zhang Dali – Extreme Reality”, Tank Loft-Chongqing Contemporary Art Center, Chongqing, China
“Zhang Dali”, Gallery Bodson-Emelinckx, Brussels, Belgium
2011 “New Slogan”, Eli Klein Fine Art Gallery, New York, USA
“World’s Shadows”, Pekin Fine Arts Gallery, Beijing China
“Zhang Dali”, Adrian David Gallerie, Knokke-Le Zoute, Belgium
2012 “Zhang Dali”, Loft Gallery, Paris, France
“AK-47”, Stern Pissarro Gallery, London, UK
“Zhang Dali Retrospective”, Eli Klein Fine Art, New York, USA
2013 “Zhang Dali—Second History”Museum of the Lu Xun Academy of Fine Art, Shenyang, China
“Zhang Dali – A Retrospective”, Eli Klein Fine Arts, New York, USA
2014 “Square”, Klein-Sun Gallery, New York, USA
“Square”, K Space, Chengdu, China
“Zhang Dali-permanent exhibition”, Automne Galerie, Bruxelles, Belgium
2015 “Zhang Dali – World’s Shadows”, Ludwisburg Kunstverein, Ludwisburg, Germany
“A Second History”, MACBA - Museum of Contemporary Art Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
“Under the Sky”, Pékin Fine Arts Gallery, Hong Kong, China
“From Reality to Extreme Reality - Zhang Dali Retrospective Research Exhibition”, United Museum, Wuhan, China
2016 “Permanence and Impermanence – New Works by Zhang Dali”, Beijing
Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China
2017   “Body and Soul”, Beelden aan Zee, The Hague, Holland
2018   Meta-morphosis, Palazzo Fava, Bologna, Italy
AK-47 Di Zhang Dali, Art City, S. Giorgio in Poggiale, Bologna, Italy
Monumental Nature, Pékin Fine Arts, Beijing, China
Beside City! Be Cityside!, Hefei Financial Harbor, Hefei, China
2019 Zhang Dali, Fondanatico, Bologna, Italy
2023 Suffocation, Eli Klein Gallery, New York, USA
Visages, Temple Gallery, Beijing China
2024 The Maverick, K Gallery, Chengdu, China

Collection

British Museum, London, UK
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
ICP, New York, USA
Asia Society, New York, USA
Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA
21c Museum, Louisville, USA
Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Smart Museum, Chicago, USA
Nasher Museum, Durham, USA
Lowe Art Museum, Miami, USA
Harvard University Art Museum, Cambridge, USA
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, USA
LACMA, Los Angeles, USA
Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou, China
He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
White Rabbit Museum, Sidney, Australia
Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
United Museum, Wuhan, China
Beelden aan Zee, The Hague, Holland
Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, USA
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China
Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), Miami, USA
Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA
Beijing Mingsheng Art Museum, Beijing, China
Chengdu Modern Art Museum, Chengdu, China
Art Museum of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing China
Taikang Art Center, Beijing, China
Tsinghua University Art Museum, Beijing, China
Hirshhom Museum, Washington, USA
Dallas Art Museum DAM, Dallas, USA
Kemper Art Museum, WashU, St. Louis, USA
The Detroit Institute of Arts Museum, Detroit, USA
Kent and Vicky Logan Collection
Chaney Collection
Rothschild Collection
De Heus- Zomer, Rotterdam, Holland