Born in 1970 in Chongqing, China, Zhang Xiaotao graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 1996, founded the New Media Art Department of the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 2010, graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts with a PhD in 2016, is a visiting professor at the City University of Hong Kong, and now lives in Beijing.

Zhang Xiaotao is one of the representative figures of the new generation of new media art in China. His representative work “Quantum Adventures” won the Gold Award at the Libo International Animation Festival in China in 2018, and “Three Thousand Worlds – Mayfly” was selected for the Electronic Art Festival in Linz, Austria in 2019, and his works have been collected by important international and domestic art museums, foundations, art centers and collectors.

He has participated in: the 55th Venice Biennale, the 7th Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, the 6th Moscow Biennale, the 2nd Prague Biennale, the Guangzhou Triennial, the Chengdu Biennale, the Shenzhen-Hong Kong Architecture Biennale, the Shenzhen Biennale of Independent Animation, the Holland Animation Film Festival, the Ottawa International Animation Festival, the Tokyo Animation Festival, and other exhibitions.