Zhang Yaxi

Contemporary Chinese sculptor Zhang Yaxi lives and works as a professional sculptor in Chongqing (formerly within Sichuan province), China. She has created monumental sculptures up to seven metres in height, and her sculpture has been exhibited in several international sculpture symposia and national sculpture exhibitions as well as being commissioned for public and corporate spaces. The Gate of Life, a monumental urban sculpture in bronze, was created during the China Changchun International Sculpture Symposium 2001. Pregnant was a monumental snow sculpture created on a frozen lake in Harbin, China. Honorable Hero – General Ba is a monumental work created during the 4th International Sculpture Symposium of Vietnam in December of 2003. Her award-winning Mother and Child is a monumental sculpture for the city of Golmud in Qinghai Province, and she collaborated on the Tennis Terracotta Warrior series for the ATP/Tennis Master Cup Shanghai 2007 with fellow sculptors Laury Dizengremel and Shen Xiaonan.