Zhang Kechun

Zhang Kechun (; born 1980 in Sichuan) is a Chinese artist and photographer. He is known for his photographs dwelling on the significance of the landscape in modern Chinese national identity. He currently lives and works in Chengdu, China.

Biography Zhang's first series The Yellow River documents the effects of modernisation along the third longest river in Asia. His second series, Between the Mountains and the Water, continued to explore the relationship between the people and land on which they live and work.

Zhang Kechun won the National Geographic Picks Global Prize in 2008, the Daylight Photo Award and the Arles Photo Festival Discovery Award in 2014. He was nominated by the Three Shadow Photo Award in 2012, Sony World Photography Awards in 2012 and 2013, and by the Prix HSBC Pour la Photographie in 2014.

His works have been collected internationally by many other museums and private collectors from the USA, France, Germany, Japan and China such as Chinese Image and Video Archive in Canada, Williams College Museum of Art, USA and the China Central Academy of Fine Arts.

Exhibitions 2020:

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2016: The Yellow River, Landskrona, Sweden Between the Mountains and Water, La Galerie, Hong-Kong Art Souterrain, Montréal, Québec 2015:The Yellow River, La Galerie, Hong-Kong 2013 : The 4th edition of Photoquai world photography biennale, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, France The 6th L'Iris d'Or Award Exhibition, Somerset House, London, UK Collection Exhibition, 1st Beijing Photo Biennial, China Millennium Monument, Beijing, China Delhi International Photography Festival, Delhi, India The 5th Dali International Photography Biennale, Dali, China The 6th Look 3 Festival of the Photograph, Charlottesville, USA The 3rd Chengdu Multi-dimensional View Photo Exhibition, Fanmate Art Museum, Chengdu, China Remote Places, Close Spaces, Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow, United Kingdom The 1st Future Master Exhibition, Winshare Art Museum, Chengdu, China 2012: Get It Louder, Sanlitun Village, Beijing, China The Interactions Yixian International Photo Festival, Yixia, China The 8th Angkor Photography Festival, Siem Reap, Cambodia There there Photographic Exhibition, Cork City, Ireland The 4th Jinan International Photography Biennale, Jinan, China Future Exhibition, China Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Beijing, China The 2013 Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China 2010 Right In Front of Your Eyes, Chengdu International Photography Center, Chengdu, China Southern Documentary Photography Exhibition, Guangdong, China

Awards National Geographic Picks Global Contest (2008) Sony World Photography Awards, shortlisted (2013) Discovery Award at Les Rencontres d'Arles for The Yellow River (2014)

Collections Chinese Image and Video Archive, Canada Williams College Museum of Art, USA China Central Academy of Fine Arts, China