Xu Zhen (Chinese 徐震), born in 1977 in Shanghai, China, is a multimedia artist. Xu Zhen's body of work, which includes photography, installation art and video, entails theatrical humor and social critique. His projects are informed by performance and conceptual art. Xu's work focuses on human sensitivity and dramatizes the humdrum of urban living. Biography Xu Zhen's earlier representative individual works include the video, Rainbow (1998), where an abstracted hand beats a man 's back until it burns red. Rainbow made Zhen the youngest Chinese artist to have participated in the main thematic exhibition of the Venice Biennale. The video, Shouting (1998), captures the fright and bewilderment of faces turned backwards on the crowded streets of Shanghai, after Xu Zhen suddenly bursts out screaming. The installation ShanghART Supermarket (2007) recreates a convenience store on-site: the shelves are crammed full of empty products, while the items, sold at their ordinarily marked prices, only have the external shells of their packaging. His recent pieces survey ancient and new art while fusing Chinese and Western cultures into large scale installations or into new art forms. European Thousand-Hand Classical Sculpture (2014) assembles 19 different Western classical sculptures of various forms; borrowing from the shape of the Thousand-Hand Guanyin (Bodhisattva) in Buddhist iconography. Physique of Consciousness (2011) is a video which comprises movements derived from dance, gymnastics, spiritual and cultural rituals. Curation Xu Zhen's curatorial experiments and engagement with an alternative art space, BizArt (closed in 2010), complement and extend practice. Aside from being an artist, Xu Zhen organizes various art activities and co-curates with other artists. Major exhibitions in Shanghai include Art For Sale (1999); Fan Mingzhen & Fan Mingzhu (2002); Dial 62761232-Courier Exhibition (2004); 38 Solo Exhibitions (2006); The Real Thing: Contemporary from Art China (2007), Tate Liverpool; Bourgeoisified Proletariat (2009); and My Communism – Poster Exhibition (2011). He was also one of the creators of the online contemporary art forum, Art-Ba-Ba, in 2006. Museum and Biennale Exhibition Xu Zhen has exhibited internationally at museums and biennales, such as, Venice Biennale (2001, 2005), Lyon Biennial (2013), Asia Pacific Triennial (2012), Guangzhou Triennial (2012), The Museum of Modern Art (New York, 2004), ICP (2004), Mori Art Museum (2005), PS1 (2006), Tate Liverpool (2007) etc. Recent exhibitions include Corporate-Xu Zhen (Produced by MadeIn Company), Kunsthaus Graz (Graz, Austria, 2015), Xu Zhen Solo Exhibition, Long Museum (Shanghai, China, 2015), Xu Zhen-Produced by MadeIn Company, Ullens Center