Born in Hechuan, Sichuan Province, China. Zhang Xiaotao graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts. Solo exhibitions: "Flowers in the Dream" at the Tokyo Gallery, Japan, 2001; "The Blown-up Property", Beijing, 2001; 'Desire' at the Kunst Akademie Muenster in Germany, 2002; "The Erosion of Materialism", Paris, 2003; "Dream Factory and Refuse Dump", Beijing, 2004 and Tokyo, 2005; "Illusion", Norway and Lithuania. His group exhibitions have included: "Between the Dream and Painting-Vienna from 1900 to 2000", Germany, 2000; "Dream: Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition" at the London Paciic Gallery, 2001 and Manchester, 2002; "The Left Hand-Right Hand' at the China and Germany Art Communication Exhibition", Beijing, 2003; "Madrid International Art Exhibition", Spain, 2004; "Chinese Current Painting" at the INFELD Culture House, Vienna, 2004; "New Viewpoint of Chinese Painting" at Marella Arte Contemporanea, Italy, 2004; "Paris International Art Exhibition", 2004; "Chinese Current Painting", Italy and "The 2nd Prague Biennale", Czechoslovakia, 2005.