1968 Born in Nanchong, Sichuan Province, China
1990 Graduation from Sichuan Institute of fine Art, Chongqing
 
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2007 “Phantom – Zhao Nengzhi Solo Exhibition”, Z-art Center, Shanghai, China
2007 “Hallucination, Zhao Nengzhi Solo Exhibition”, Tang Contemporary Art, Bangkok, Thailand 
2007 “Hallucination, Zhao Nengzhi Solo Exhibition”, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, Beijing
2006 “Transforming, Zhao Nengzhi Solo Exhibition”, Zhu Qizhan Museum, Shanghai, China
2006 “Zhao Nengzhi Solo Exhibition”, Art Seasons, Singapore
2006 “Zhao Nengzhi FACES”, L.A. Gallery Frankfurt
2006 “Open Your Mouth Open Your Eyes Wide- Zhao Nengzhi”, LA Gallery BeiJing, China
2004 “Fragments of Memory-Zhao Nengzhi's work on paper”, Soobin Gallery, Singapore
2001 “Zhao Nengzhi”, London UK
2000 “Expression”, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai
 
Selected Group Exhibitions
2008 “Faces and Faces”, Dolores de Sierra Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2007 “China’s Neo Painting - A Triumph Over Images”, Shanghai Museum, Shanghai
2007 “The Power of the Universe - Exhibition of Frontier Contemporary Chinese Art”, Asia Art Center, China
2007 “Revolution”, ChinaSquare, NY, USA
2007 “Black , white and gray”, Today Art Musem, Beijing, China
2007 “From New Figurative Image to New Painting”, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2007 “Word of mouth from four corners - 3th Guiyang art Biennale Exhibition”, Guiyang Museum, China
2007 “Giant in illusion - Submission of Artworks to the Korea”, China Contemporary art, Korea
2007 “New South-West Contemporary Painting Exhibition”, Chengdu, China
2007 “Chinese Whispers”, Osage Kwun Tong, Hong Kong, China
2007 “Starting from the Southwest, Exhibition of Contemporary Art in Southwest China”, Guangdong Mu seum of Art, Guangzhou, China
2006 “Z-art Center Opening”, Z-art Center, Shanghai, China
2006 “Body Heng”, Contemporary Art Center, Nanjing, China
2006 “Beyond Dimension, Chinese New Painting”, SQUART Gallery of Contemporary Art, China
2006 “Unclear and Clearness”, Seoul, Korea
2006 “Basel Art Fair”, Basel, Switzerland
2006 “The Naked Truth”, Tang Contemporary Art, Bangkok, Thailand
2006 “The Self-Made Generation, Retrospective of New Chinese Painting 2005”, ZENDAI MoMA, China
2006 “The Power of Art on Paper”, Art Seasons, Beijing, China
2005 Ten Eras Ten Colors, SOKA Contemporary Space, Beijing, China
2005 “Mahjong”, Chinsieche Gegenwartkunst Aus Der Sammlung Sigg, Berne Museum, Switzerland
2005 “Mc1 Biennale Internationale D’Art Contemporain Chinos Montpellier”, Montpellier, France
2005 “Archaeology Of The Future”, The Second Triennial Of Chinese Art Nanjing Museum Nanjing
2005 “Always to the front, China Contemporary Art”, Kuandu Museum of fine Arts, Taipei, China
2005 “Chendu Biennial”, Chendu Modern Museum, Chengdu, China
2005 “Grounding Reality”, Seoul Art Center, Korea
2004 Blue House Art Center, Chengdu, China
2004 “Live in Chengdu”, Shenzhen Museum, Shenzhen, China
2004 “4+1 Chinese Contemporary Art”, Asia Art Center, Taipei, China
2004 “China Avantgarde (Part VI)”, LIMN, San Francisco, USA
2003 “Interplay-Chinese Contemporary Art’, Jakarta, Indonesia
2003 “Image of Images”, Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
2003 “New Generation and Post-revolution”, Yan Huang Art Museum, Beijing, China
2002 “The Youth Cruelty Painting”, Shanghai, Beijing
2002 “Chinese New Idea Photograph Art”, Pingyao, Shanxi, China
2002 “On The Edge of The Millennium: New Art from China”, New York And London
2002 “International Contemporary Art Fair Zürich”, Zürich, Switzerland
2001 “ON Boys and Girls”, Kunming and Singapore Basel Art Fair , Basel, Switzerland
2001 “Gely Different, Big Works by 11 Chinese Avant-garde Artists”, Singapore, China
2001 “Basel Art Fair”, Basel, Switzerland
2000 “At the New Century, 1979-1999 China Art Invitation Show”, Modem Art Museum, Chengdu, China
2000 “The Chengdu Movement”, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2000 “Expression, Works by artists from China Hong Kong Taiwan”, Taipei
1999 “Liberation”, London, UK
1999 “The Beauty of Materialism”, Huadong Normal College Gallery, Shanghai, China
1998-
1999 “International Art Exhibition”, Featherstone, Boston, USA
1998 “Christie’s Asian Avan-garde”, London, UK
1998 “Confused - Reckoning with the Future Contemporary Chinese Art”, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1998 “Kunst RAL98”, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1996 “Best New Artist”, Awarded by Jiangshu Art Monthly
1994 “Fragment”, Chongqing, China
1993 “Chinese Oil Painting Biennale Exhibition”, China National Gallery, Beijing, China