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1961-1962
Solo exhibition at the Kootz Gallery in New York and at the Tokyo Gallery
in Tokyo.
In a reply to Alexander Watt, for the magazine Studio published in London,
he says: "Abstraction in art is no more abstract than isolated
words in literature".
In 1962 exhibitions in Madrid, at the Ateneo, and then in Cordoba, at
the Galerìa Liceo.
Publication of La Tentation de l'Occident with ten lithographs by Zao
Wou Ki.
Zao Meets André Malraux, the French minister of culture; with
his support he obtains the French nationality.
New exhibition at the Kootz Gallery, The Wonderful World of Zao Wou
Ki.
1963-1964
Exhibition at the Galerie de France in Paris.
Participates in Peinture hors format, featuring fifteen artists at the
American Centre in Paris.
Exhibitions in London, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
the Hayden Gallery in Cambridge (USA) and at the Kootz Gallery in New
York.
1965-1969
In a film dedicated to his art - in the series Art Vivant - Zao demonstrates
the use he makes of Chinese brushes.
Retrospective in Essen, Germany, at the Folkwang Museum, paintings between
1950 and 1964.
Exhibitions in Europe: in Vienna at the Graphische Sammlung Albertina,
in Turin, Oslo.
In New York at the Kootz Gallery,
In Los Angeles at Frank Perls Gallery
At the San Francisco the Museum of Art.
He travels throughout the USA and visits Mexico where Rufino Tamayo
welcomes him.
Illustrations of Saint-John Perse's Oeuvre poétique and Rimbaud's
Les Illuminations.
Exhibition at the Galerie de France in Paris, with a foreword by Pierre
Schneider.
In 1967, he collaborates to a book about the Han period stampings (209
BC-200 AD). Most of the stampings are drawn from the collection of his
father, several are very rare.
In 1969 second retrospective exhibition at the contemporary art museum
in Montreal and then at Musée du Quebec.
A new film on Zao Wou Ki, in the series Champs visuels, is directed
by Pierre Schneider and produced by the ORTF, the national French television.
1970-1971
Exhibition at the Sommerakademie für Bildende Kunst in Salzburg.
He is appointed as a teacher for the summer season.
Exhibitions in Geneva, Charleroi, and at the Galerie de France.
Henri Michaux adds a foreword to a new edition of his monograph at Le
Musée de Poche.
Zao Wou Ki 's wife, May, is very ill. Zao rediscovers the ink medium.
1972-1974
May dies in March 1972. Zao Wou Ki leaves for China. His first trip
there since 1948.
Upon his return, he describes in an interview the impressions that his
country has left in him.
Exhibition of his
inks along with sculptures by May at the Galerie de France.
Appearances in two films:
Le Défi de la grandeur, directed by Herbert Kline, and narrated
by Orson Welles.
Personnage de la vie made by Claude-Jean Philippe and Monique Lefebvre
for the French television.
He returns to the oil medium, and exhibits in Lisbon, Luxembourg, Essen,
and Amsterdam.
A monograph is published in Belgium.
Designs for the sets and costumes of Béla Bartòk's The
Miraculous Mandarin and The Wooden Prince for the Rhine Opera (Mulhouse,
Colmar, Strasbourg).
1975-1977
The Galerie de France exhibits his recent works, with a foreword by
René Char.
He paints large formats, such as Hommage à Malraux (78"
x 240 "), which is exhibited in Tokyo at the Fuji Television Gallery.
In Accrochages III, an exhibition at Centre Georges Pompidou, an entire
room is devoted to his work.
Exhibitions in France, Belgium, and Lebanon.
Zao Wou Ki weds Françoise Marquet. She is nowadays curator of
modern art at the Musée du Petit Palais.
Publication by Françoise
Marquet.of Zao Wou Ki, les estampes 1937-1974.
Invitation to stay at the Villa Médicis in Rome.
The Fuji Television
Gallery in Tokyo presents fourteen paintings, mostly large formats,
with a foreword by Henry Michaux and Tamon Miki, curator at the Museum
of Modern Art in Tokyo.
1978-1980
On the occasion of Homenaje a Joan Miro in Madrid Zao meets up with
his friends Miro, Tàpies, Chillida and Pierre Matisse.
He donates a group of his engravings to the French National Library.
Eighty prints are exhibited at the Library.
Exhibitions in Barcelona and at the FIAC - the contemporary art fair
- in Paris, with the Galerie de France.
Four designs for the Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres.
Pierre Matisse exhibits his paintings and inks in New York. I.M Pei
writes the foreword of the catalogue.
Publication of Zao Wou Ki, Encres, a dialogue between the artist and
Françoise Marquet, with a foreword by Henri Michaux.
Creation of a nine panels fresco, opening like a picture book, for a
school building designed by the architect Roger Tallibert.
1981-1982
Illustrations for En Occident, le jardin d'une femme indienne, by Henri
Michaux.
Exhibition at the
Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais in Paris. The catalogue is introduced
by Jean Leymarie and François Cheng. The exhibition travels to
five destinations in Japan.
At the request of I. M Pei, Zao creates two large pictures in ink Fragrant
Hills Hotel.
1983-1984
Exhibition in Taiwan at the National Museum of History.
Retrospective at the Musée Ingres.
Invitation to exhibit by China's Minister of Culture. A selection of
works is presented at the National Museum in Beijing and in the facilities
of his former school in Hangzhou.
In October, his work is presented at the FIAC.
Inks exhibited at the Jan Krugier Gallery in Geneva
Ten large formats at the Galerie de France.
A film Voyage chinois de Zao Wou Ki.
1985-1987
I.M. Pei commissions works from Zao Wou Ki Ellsworth Kelly and Kenneth
Noland for the Raffles City Building in Singapore.
Trip to China where, at the request of his former school in Hangzhou,
he teaches for a month in painting and drawing, while Françoise
teaches history of modern painting and museology.
Exhibition at the Pierre Matisse Gallery in New York, with a foreword
by François Jacob.
Exhibitions in France and Japan.
1988-1989
Exhibition at Jan
Krugier Gallery in Geneva.
Fortieth anniversary of his arrival in France.
Retrospective of his work at the Artcurial Gallery and large formats
at the FiAC
Publications of Zao Wou Ki, by Claude Roy, Zao Wou Ki, by Daniel Abadie
and Martine Contensou, a monograph by Gilles Plazy, Zao Wou Ki, Encres,
by Bernard Noël
1990-1992
Exhibition of paintings and inks at Jan Krugier
Exhibitions at Musée des Beaux-Arts in Tours, at the Vasarely
Foundation in Aix, at the Artcurial Gallery, foreword by Pierre Daix.
Marwan Hoss exhibits his inks in his Paris Gallery.
Retrospective at the Gulbenkian foundation in Lisbon.
Exhibitions in Luxembourg: Encres de Chine at the Musée National
and Peintures at the Château de Vianden.
Exhibitions in Germany, Switzerland, France.
1993-1994
Zao is made a Commandeur de la Légion d'Honneur, receives The
Grande Médaille Vermeil de la Ville de Paris and is awarded an
honorary doctorate by the University of Hong Kong.
Retrospective exhibition at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum.
Exhibitions in Paris, Nice
Exhibition at the Centro Cultural de Arte Contemporaneo in Mexico, catalogue
introduced by Robert Littman and Pierre Schneider.
1994
Zao Wou Ki receives the Imperial award from Emperor Akihito and Empress
Michiko.
Illustrations of 24 Sonnets of Shakespeare.
Publication of a monograph by Pierre Daix, Zao Wou Ki, l'Oeuvre 1935-1993.
1995-1997
Seven prints for Henri Michaux's book Annonciation.
Retrospective at the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts in Taiwan and at
the Museum of Fine Arts in Hong Kong. Daniel Marchesseau curates both
exhibitions.
Design for a ceramic mural panel for the future Atlantic underground
station in Lisbon.
At the FIAC with the Jan Krugier Gallery.
Exhibition in New York, Hommage à Pierre Matisse at the Jan Krugier
Gallery, texts by Maria Gaetana Matisse and I. M. Pei. The exhibition
then travels to the Krugier-Ditelsheim Gallery in Geneva.
1998-2002
Participation in ARCO 1998, the international fair in Madrid.
Retrospective travelling in China: at the Shanghai Museum of Art, in
Beijing at the Chinese Palace of Fine Arts, in Canton at the Palace
of Fine Arts. Daniel Marchesseau curates these exhibitions.
Exhibitions in Taiwan, France and Japan.
The FIAC in Paris
Publication of Grands formats, participates in Chine, la gloire des
empereurs, at the Musée du Petit Palais.
In the spring of 2001 exhibition at the IVAM, in Valencia, Spain.
Exhibition " Signe(s) " , inks of Henri Michaux and Zao Wou
Ki.
Exhibition "Zao Wou-Ki, Rêve de nature ", at the Chenonceau
castle . Inks and oils of the last twenty years.
In December , Zao Wou Ki is elected at the Académie des Beaux
Arts. The Académie des Beaux-Arts is the section of the Académie
Française reserved to painters and architects. His official reception
at the Académie is on schedule for November 2003.
In 2003
Two retrospectives and one exhibition are on schedule :
- February-April
In Helsinki, Taidehalli, " rétrospective Zao Wou-Ki"
Curated by Markku Valkonen.
- April-May
Exhibition at the Marlbourough Gallery, New York.
- October to December
In Paris , Retrospective at the Museee du Jeu de Paume curated by Daniel
Abadie
This exhibition is organized whithin the program of the Années
croisées France-Chine. 2003-2004 will be in France the "
year of China ".
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