Zeng Fanzhi was born in Wuhan, China in 1964. He lives and works in Beijing. He has had solo exhibitions at Singapore Art Museum (2007), Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne de Metropole, Saint-Etienne (2007), Fundacion Godia, Barcelona, (2009), National Gallery for Foreign Art, Sofia (2010) and Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai (2010). He has also participated in numerous international group exhibitions including the first Guangzhou Triennale in 2002 and the 53rd Biennale di Venezia in 2009. Currently his paintings can be seen in “I mondo vi appartiene” at François Pinault Foundation, Palazzo Grassi, Venice through December 2011.