Zhang Huan 張洹 | When Chinese Art arrived in New York City

Zhang Huan 張洹 had already traveled a considerable distance by the time he arrived in New York in the mid-1990s. Born in Henan Province in 1965, he came of age as an artist in Beijing’s East Village, informal, semi-underground community where a small group of young artists pushed the limits of what could be made and shown in the days of the post-Tiananmen crackdown, when China’s experimental art…