Born in 1957 in Hangzhou, China
1984 BA obtained from the Oil Painting Department, Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou
Solo Exhibitions
2008 - Mute, OCT, Shenzhen
Zhang Peili Solo Exhibition, Boers-Li Gallery, Chao Yang District, Beijing
2000 - "Artist Project Rooms" (Art & Public, Switzerland) Arco2000, Madrid.
1999 - Jack Tilton Gallery, New York.
1998 - The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
1997 - Centers of Academic Recources Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.
1996 _ "Video Forum"(Art & Public, Switzerland) Art27'96, Basel, Switzerland.
1993 _ Maison des Cultures du Monde, Galerie du Rond Point, Paris. Galerie Crousel-Robelin, Paris.
Group Exhibitions
2010 Reshaping History, Beijing
2009 53rd Bienale di Venezia, A gift to Marco Polo, Venice
2008 The 3rd China media art festival, China academy of art, Hangzhou
2007 - ’85 New Wave - The Birth of Chinese Contemporary Art, UCCA - Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
Bordeline/Moving Images 2007, Borderline, Beijing
The Year of the Golden Pig - Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork
We are your future, White Box, New York City, NY
2 Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow Biennale of contemporary art, Moscow
2006 - It's all right!, BizArt, Shanghai
Microcosm - Chinese Comtemporary Art, Macao Museum of Art, Macao
2005 - Something's Happening, BizArt, Shanghai
Zooming into Focus - Contemporary Chinese Video, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, Singapore
Mahjong - Chinesische Gegenwartskunst, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern
Miradas y conceptos en la colección Helga de Alvear, Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo MEIAC, Badajoz
2004 - Shanghai 5 Biennale. Techniques of the visible, Shanghai Biennale - Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
Modern Means: Continuity and Change in Art from 1880 to the Present, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Zooming into Focus, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
China - Video Generation, Maison Européene de la Photographie, Paris
2003 - 10e Niennale de l'Image en Mouvement, Biennale de l'Image en Mouvement, Geneva
Happiness - A Survival Guide for Art and Life, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
50th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale / Biennale di Venecia, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice
2002 - " PAUSE" /Gwangju Biennale 2002, Gwangju, Korea.
2001 -"TELEVISIONS", Kunst Hall, Wien.
- " Living in Time" ,Nationlgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum fÜr Gegenwart, Berlin.
- " China Art Now", Singapore Art Museum, National Heritage Board, Singapore.
- " Compound Eyes"/ Contemporary Video Art from China, Eart Lu Gallery, LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore.
2000 -"Open Ends"/ Art at the MOMA Sine 1980, The Museum of Modern Art , New York.
- "Media Art 2000 of media-city seoul 2000", Seoul Metropolitan(Historical)Museum, Seoul, Korea.
1999 - "APERTO over ALL"/ La Biennale di Venezia (48a Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte),Giardini,Venice.
- "ZEITWENDEN ausblick" /Global Art Rheinland 2000, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany.
- "Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin 1950s -1980s", Queens Museumof Art, New York.
- "Skin-Deep"/ Surface and Appearance in Contemporary Art, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
- Third Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia.
- The 1st Fukuoka Asian Art Triennial 1999, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan.
1998 - "Every day"/11th Biennial of Sydney, Pier 2/3, Sydney
- "Zhang Peili and Gu Wenda", Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery (U.B.C), Vancouver.
- "Inside Out: New Chinese Art", P.S.I Contemporary Art Center, New York.
1997 - La 4e Biennial d' Art Contemporainl de Lyon, Reunion des Musees Nationaux, Lyon, France
- "Cities on the Move 1", Group Exhibition of Contemporary Asian Art. Vienna Secession, Austria.
- "Another Long March"/ Chinese Conceptual and Installation Art in theNineties, Chasse Kazerne, Breda, The Netherlands.
1996 - "OE uvres Choisies", Art & Public, Geneve, Switzerland.
- "Image and Phenomena", The Gallery of Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou, China.
1995 - China, Artistic Avant-garde Movements, Centro d'Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain.
1994 - "Out of the Center", Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland
1993 - "Passaggi a Oriente"/La Biennaledi Venezia ( 45aEsposizionInternazionale d'Art) Giardini, Venice,