Contemporary Chinese artist Zhao Gang will celebrate a career milestone this week. His first solo museum exhibition in the United States, “Zhao Gang: History Painting,” is set to open this Friday, May 24 — and it’s happening right here in the Magic City.
“I think it’s particularly interesting for this to be one of the first shows of Chinese art happening in Miami, because Miami is such a repository of visual culture,” says Christian Viveros-Fauné, a guest curator at Pérez Art Museum Miami who organized the exhibit with assistant curator Jennifer Inacio. He also notes Miami’s connections to Latin America. “China has become a major player in Latin America — it’s a major player everywhere,” he says. “Because of these cultural, economic, and social ties, I think it’s an important thing to have someone like Gang, who is an intense bridge between Chinese and American culture, exhibited at a place like PAMM.”
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Photo courtesy of the artist and Long March Space, via Miami New Times
