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Zhenzhong Yang (born 1968) is a Chinese new media artist and exhibition organizer.

Art Style
The artworks of Zhenzhong Yang reflect the desire to challenge the concept of community standards of behavior.His focus is China's own inner disharmony and strong contrast. He often touched some sensitive topics, such as death, or excessive loading large social model which can not be developed. Compared to the narrative, he more commonly used metaphors. His work often starts with a humorous theme, and then coupled with the repetitive sound image, language and figurative metaphor coordinated tune.

He believes “life itself is in a state of constant repetition” and, accordingly, repetition is a defining theme of his practice. For I Will Die (2001), Yang enlisted ordinary people to pronounce the titular phrase on camera in different languages, playing the loops in simultaneous video projections. The work exemplifies the air of bold straightforwardness for which Yang is known across his work in photography, video, performance, sculpture, and installation. Whether stripping massage chairs of their upholstery, appropriating works by other famous artists, planting a fake bus stop in a historic town, or installing synchronized videos of a woman huffing and puffing to blow away a Shanghai street, Yang relies on everyday objects and familiar scenes to express profound ideas. “I feel that if you deal with individual experience on a certain level it becomes universal experience,” he explains.

List of Major Works
(2013) Trespassing, YANG Zhenzhong Solo Exhibition, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shanghai, China

(2013) Metropolis, Reflections on the Modern City, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, U.K.

(2012) Passage - Yang Zhenzhong Solo Exbihition, TOP Creative Park, Shanghai, China

(2011) Don’t Move, ShanghART Beijing space, China

(2008) Overpass, Canvas International Art, Amsterdam, Netherlands

(2008) Yang Zhenzhong Solo Exhibition, Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, Denmark

(2006) Foreplay, Shanghart Gallery, Shanghai, China

(2006) Yang Zhenzhong, IKON Gallery, Birmingham, UK

(2002) Light as Fuck, Bizart Art Center, Shanghai, China

(2001) I Will Die, Kunsten Festival des Arts 2001, Brussels, Belgium

(1998) Jiangnan, Access Gallery, Vancouver, Canada