The artist lives and works in Paris, France.
1921Born on February 1st in Beijing, China
1930Learns calligraphy from his grandfather.
1935At the age of fifteen, Zao Wou-Ki starts studying at the Fine Arts School of Hangzhou, where he remains for six years learning traditional Chinese painting, Western perspective, and calligraphy. Zao Wou-Ki is appointed as an assistant professor at the School of Fine Arts and holds his first exhibition in Chang-King (through 1941).
1948Arrives in Paris, France.
1949First solo exhibition in Paris at the Galerie Creuze.
1950Learns the technique of lithography at the Desjobert printing house. A lifelong friendship begins with fellow artist and poet Henri Michaux.
1951Henri Michaux introduces Zao Wou-Ki to art dealer Pierre Loeb. This collaboration will last until 1957.
1952Zao Wou-Ki is now regularly exhibiting at the Pierre Loeb Gallery in Paris. This is where he is introduced to architect I.M. Pei and his wife Eileen.
1957Claude Roy, a collector of Zao Wou-Ki’s work since 1950, writes his first monograph on the artist, published by Le Musée de Poche. Exhibits at the Galerie de France in Paris for the first time, with the agreement of Pierre Loeb.
1958Travels to New York with Pierre and Colette Soulages to meet art dealer Sam Kootz, who becomes his first regular dealer in the United States until the closing of the gallery in 1967. He has his first solo exhibition at the Kootz Gallery in New York in 1959.
1962Creates ten lithographs to illustrate La Tentation de l’Occident by André Malraux, the French Minister of Culture, who will help him obtain French citizenship in 1964.
1962traveled to Galerìa Liceo, Córdoba, Spain, (catalogue with foreword by Michel Ragon )
1965Jean-Michel Meurice creates the film, Zao Wou-Ki, in the series, Art Vivant, produced by Derocles Paris, in which the painter shows his use of the Chinese brush technique.
1970Returns to working with ink on paper regularly, rather than oil paints.
1972Wife May dies in March. Zao Wou-Ki makes his first trip to China since 1948 to see his family.
1973Returns to working with oil paints and begins a period of intense production of mostly large-format works, exhibited at the Galerie de France in 1975.
1979(in honor of Zao Wou-Ki’s donation; catalogue with foreword by Françoise Woimant, and Claude Roy)
1979Donation of engravings and prints to the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. At the request of Philippe Lecat, the French Minister of Culture, Zao Wou-Ki creates designs in watercolor and ink for the Manufacture Nationale de la Céramique de Sèvres, Paris, France, which adorn plates printed by the process of lithography.
1980The art dealer, Pierre Matisse, visits his studio and proposes an exhibition in New York in 1980. I.M. Pei writes the forward for the catalogue.
1981At the request of I.M. Pei, Zao Wou-Ki creates two large inks for the Fragrant Hills Hotel near Beijing, China.
1983Exhibits for the first time in China since 1948, in Beijing and Hangzhou, at the request of the Chinese Minister of Culture.
1984First exhibition at the Jan Krugier Gallery in Geneva, Switzerland.
1985Commissioned by I.M. Pei, along with Ellsworth Kelly and Kenneth Noland, to create work for Raffles City Building in Singapore. Returns with his second wife to Hangzhou to teach for a month in his old school.
1988Writes his autobiography in collaboration with his wife. Artcurial organizes a retrospective for the 40th anniversary of his arrival.
1996Major exhibitions are held in museums in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, and Hong Kong as well the large retrospectives in Shanghai, Beijing and Canton (through 1999).
2003The large retrospective, curated by Daniel Abadie at the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris, is a great success (135,000 visitors).
2006I.M. Pei proposes to exhibit ink paintings in the Contemporary Wing of the new Suzhou Museum in Suzhou City, China. The other painters are Xu Bing and Cai Guo-Qiang.
2008Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris organizes a retrospective of his graphic work (prints and illustrated books). This exhibition will travel to the Suzhou Museum, Suzhou, China, in October.
2006Grand Officier de l’Ordre de la Légion d’Honneur, decorated by the French President, Jacques Chirac, Palais de l’Elysée, Paris, France
2002Elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France, Académie des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
1994Praemium Imperiale Award for Painting, The Japanese Art Association, Tokyo, Japan
1993Commandeur de la Légion d’Honneur, French Republic, Paris, France
1993Honorary Doctorate, Chinese University, Hong Kong, China
1984Elected Officier de la Légion d’Honneur, French Republic, Paris, France
2011Zao Wou-Ki Paintings: 1950's - 1960's, de Sarthe Fine Art, Central Hong Kong, China.
2010Zao Wou-Ki, Fundação Arpad Szenes, Lisbon, Portugal.
2010Zao Wou-Ki, Prieuré de Saint Cosme, Indre-et Loire, France.
2009Celebrating Zao Wou-Ki, Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Knong, China.
2009Zao Wou Ki Porcelaines, L'Arc en Seine, Paris, France.
2008Zao Wou-Ki, L’Encre, l’eau, l’air, la couleur, Musée de l’Hospice Saint-Roch, Issoudun, France. (catalogue with texts by Philippe Dagen)
2008Zao Wou-Ki, Prints and Illustrated Books, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, France. catalogue with texts by Marie-inssieux Chamonard, Céline Chicha and Hélène Trespeuch; exhibition traveled to Suzhou Museum, Suzhou City, China
2008Zao Wou-Ki: “Hommage à Riopelle” et peintures récentes, Musée National des Beaux-arts du Québec, Québec, Canada.
2008Zao Wou-Ki: Paper and China, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York, United States.
2007Zao Wou-Ki, Paintings, Works on Paper, Ceramics 1947-2007, Chateau Musée de Nemours, Nemours, France. (catalogue with a text by Daniel Marchesseau)
2006Black and White Dream - India Ink, Suzhou Museum, Suzhou City, China. one of the opening exhibitions of the building designed by I.M. Pei
2005Paysages interieurs, 1947-2004, Palais Bénédictine, Fécamp France, catalogue with a text by François Marquet, Fécamp, France. (catalogue with a text by François Marquet)
2005Zao Wou-Ki, Paintings and India Ink, 1948-2005, Espace Bellevue, Biarritz, France. (catalogue with texts by Florence Delay, Daniel Abadie, Juan Manuel Bonet, and Yann Hendgen)
2004Zao Wou-Ki, Bridgestone Museum of Art, Ishibashi Foundation, Tokyo, Japan. (catalogue with texts by Hideo Tomiyama, Toru Haga, and Yoko Fukumitsu)
2004Zao Wou-Ki, Homages, Montpellier, Musée Fabre, France. (catalogue with text by Bernard Ceysson and Sylvain Amic)
2004Zao Wou-Ki, The Quest of Silence: Paintings, Musée des Beaux Arts, Dunkerque, and Prints and Illustrated Books, Musée du Dessin et de l’Estampe Originale, Gravelines, France. (catalogue with text by Bernard Ceysson and Aude Cordonnier)
2003 Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong, China.
2003 Zao Wou-Ki, Works from 1950 to 2000, Galerie Vanuxem, Paris, France.
2003Zao Wou-Ki, Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France. (curated by Daniel Abadie; catalogue with texts by François Cheng, Pierre Schneider, Jean Lescure, and Guitemie Maldonado )
2003Zao Wou-Ki, Retretti Art Center of Taidehalli, Helsinki, Finland. (curated by Markku Valkonen)
2003Zao Wou-Ki: Recent Works, Marlbourough Gallery, New York, New York, United States. (catalogue with texts by I.M. Pei and Jonathan Hay)
2002Zao Wou-Ki, Rêve de nature, Château de Chenonceau, Chenonceaux, France .
2001Zao Wou-Ki, Institut Valenciá d’Art Modern, Centre Julio González, Valencia, Spain. traveled to Musée d’Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium catalogue with texts by Kosme de Barañano, Emmanuel Guigon, France Huser, and Louis Ucciani
2000 F.I.A.C. represented by Galerie Thessa Herold, Paris, France. catalogue with foreword by Jacques Rigaud
2000Chine, la gloire des empereurs, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville, Paris, France. contemporary section of the art exhibition organized by the Musée du Petit Palais, Paris, France
2000Recent India Ink, Galerie Marwan Hass, Paris, France. catalogue with text by Philippe Dagen
2000Zao Wou-Ki, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
2000Zao Wou-Ki, Lin & Keng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan.
2000Zao Wou-Ki, Recent India Ink, Institut Français, Barcelona, Spain.
1999Zao Wou-Ki, Paintings of the Last 20 Years, Centre d’Art Plastiques, Royan, France.
1999Zao Wou-Ki, Works from 1948-1999, Lin & Keng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan.
1998Paintings, India Ink, Prints, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Angers, France.
1998Zao Wou-Ki, Paintings and India Ink, Galerie Thessa Herold, ARCO 1998, Madrid, Spain. catalogue with text by Tomás Llorens
1998Zao Wou-Ki, Retrospective, organized by Association Française d’Action Artistique, L’Oréal and the Shanghai Museum of Art, Shanghai, China. traveled to the Chinese Palace of Fine Arts, Beijing, China; the Palace of Fine Arts, Canton, exhibition curated by Daniel Marchesseau; through 1999
1997 Lin & Keng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan.
1997Recent Paintings, Galerie Thessa Herold, Paris, France.
1997Zao Wou-Ki, J. Bastien Art, Brussels, Belgium .
1996 F.I.A.C, Paris, France. represented by Galerie Jan Krugier, Geneva, Switzerland
1996Zao Wou-Ki, A Retrospective, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan, China. traveled to the Museum of Arts, Hong Kong, curated by Daniel Marchesseau; organized by the Association Française d’Action Artistique Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong
1996Zao Wou-Ki, India Ink-1996: A Tribute to Pierre Matisse, Jan Krugier Gallery, New York, New York, United States. traveled to Galerie Krugier-Ditesheim, Geneva, Switzerland (catalogue with texts by Maria Gaetana Matisse and I.M. Pei)
1996Zao Wou-Ki, Recent Works, J. Bastien Art, Brussels, Belgium.
1995 Ishibashi Museum of Art, Ishibashi Foundation, Kurume, Japan.
1995Paintings from 1962 to 1993, Maison de la Culture, Nevers, France.
1995Zao Wou-Ki, Retrospective, Caja de Ahorros, Saragossa, Spain.
1994Zao Wou-Ki, Cuarenta años de pintura, 1954-1994, Centro Cultural de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico. catalogue introduction by Robert Littman and Pierre Schneider
1993Zao Wou-Ki Retrospective, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan. (curated by Patrice Bachelard)
1993Zao Wou-Ki, Recent Paintings, Galerie Sapone, Nice, France. catalogue with foreword by Pierre Daix
1993Zao Wou-Ki, Recent Works, Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong, China.
1992India Ink, Musée National, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg.
1992L’Encre, l’eau, l’air, Galerie Marwan Hoss, Paris, France. catalogue with foreword by Philippe Dagen
1992Paintings, Château de Vianden, Vianden, Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg.
1992Recent Paintings, Galerie Artcurial, Paris, France. catalogue with foreword by Pierre Daix
1992Retrospective of Zao Wou-Ki: Paintings (1955-1992), Centre Cultural Noroît, Arras, France.
1992Zao Wou-Ki, Oils and Watercolors, Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal. retrospective exhibition organized by the Association Française d’Action Artistique (curators Jean Leymarie and Patrice Bachelard). Catalogue with foreword by José Sommer Ribeiro, Jean Leymarie, and Patrice Bachelard.
1991Prints, Galerie Artcurial, Paris, France.
1991Private Collection, 1955-1989, Vasarely Foundation, Aix-en-Provenance, France. catalogue with foreword by George Duby
1990Paintings and India Ink, Galerie Jan Krugier, Geneva, Switzerland.
1990Paintings, India Ink and Prints, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tours, France.
1990Zao Wou-Ki, Ten Inks, Galerie Kutter, Luxembourg, Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg. catalogue with introduction by Henri Michaux
1988 F.I.A.C., represented by Galerie Artcurial, Paris, France.
1988 Galerie Jan Krugier, Geneva, Switzerland .
1988Zao Wou-Ki, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Metz, France.
1988Zao Wou-Ki, 1955-1988, Galerie Artcurial, Paris, France. catalogue with foreword by Pierre Schneider
1987 Galerie Kutter, Luxembourg, Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg.
1987Paintings, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
1986India Ink, French Cultural Center, Rome, Italy. exhibition organized by Jean Leymarie, Paul Bedarida and Association Française d’Action Artistique; catalogue with texts by Jean Leymarie, Henri Michaux and Lord Gaspard
1986Zao Wou-Ki: Paintings, 1980-1985, Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, New York, United States. (catalogue with foreword by François Jacob)
1985 Galerie de France, Paris, France. (exhibition of commissioned triptych for I.M. Pei’s new building in Raffles City, Singapore)
1985Engravings, Galerie Artcurial, Paris, France.
1985Engravings, Galerie Editart D. Blanco, Geneva, Switzerland.
1984Zao Wou-Ki, 1984, Galerie de France, Paris, France. catalogue with preface by Georges Duby
1984Zao Wou-Ki, Traces (India Ink), Jan Krugier Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland. catalogue with preface by Henri Michaux
1983 F.I.A.C., represented by Galerie de France, Paris, France.
1983 National Museum of History, Taipei, Taiwan. traveled to the House of Culture, Tai-Nan and Prefectoral Library, Tai-Chung, Taiwan
1983Zao Wou-Ki ou se Libérer du Connu, Musée Ingres, Montauban, France. traveled to Espace des Cordeliers, Châteauroux, France; the National Museum of Fine Arts, Beijing, China; Zhejiang Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou, China, organized by China’s Minister of Culture
1982Paintings by Zao Wou-Ki, 1954-1981, Hong Kong Arts Center, Hong Kong, China.
1982Zao Wou-Ki, A Solo Exhibition of Paintings, National Museum Art Gallery, Singapore, Singapore.
1981Zao Wou-Ki, Paintings, India Ink, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, France. traveled through Japan to Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka; Grand Art Gallery, Tokyo-Nihonbashi, Tokyo; Fukui Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukui; National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, catalogue published by The Society for International Cultural Exchange, with foreword by Jean Leymarie and François Cheng
1981Zao Wou-Ki, Prints, Printmakers Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan.
1980Large Paintings by Zao Wou-Ki, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi, Belgium.
1980Large Paintings, 1964-1979, Musée d’Histoire et d’Art, Luxembourg, Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg. catalogue with introduction by Jean-Luc Koltz
1980Recent India Ink, Galerie de France, Paris, France. catalogue with foreword by Henri Michaux
1980Zao Wou-Ki, Paintings and Drawings, 1976-1980, 1976-1980, Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, New York, United States. catalogue with foreword by I.M. Pei
1979Zao Wou-Ki, Recent Works, Galerie Kutter, Luxembourg, Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg.
1978Recent Paintings, F.I.A.C., represented by Galerie de France, Paris, France.
1978Zao Wou-Ki, En Torno al Gesto, Galería Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain.
1977 Fondation Veranneman, Kruishoutem, Belgium.
1977 Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyort in Tokyo, Japan. catalogue with foreword by Henri Michaux and Tamon Miki, curator at the Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo
1975 Delta International Art Center, Beirut, Lebanon.
1975Contemporary Art III, Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.
1975Zao Wou-Ki - Paintings and Works on Paper, May Zao: Sculptures, Maison de la Culture et des Loisirs, Saint-Etienne, France.
1975Zao Wou-Ki, 1971-1975, Galerie de France, Paris, France. (catalogue with foreword by René Char)
1974 Galeria Diprove, Lisbon and Oporto, Portugal.
1974 Galerij Nicolas, Amsterdam, Holland.
1974Zao Wou-Ki - Paintings, Watercolors, Prints, Heimeshoff Galerie, Essen, Germany.
1974Zao Wou-Ki, Watercolors, India Ink, Paintings and Prints, Galerie Kutter, Luxembourg, Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg.
1973Zao Wou-Ki, Paintings, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
1972Honorary exhibition of Inks by Zao Wou-Ki and Sculptures by May Zao, Galerie de France, Paris, France. (in honor of May Zao’s recent passing)
1972Paintings by Zao Wou-Ki, Galerie Protée, Toulouse, France.
1970 Galerie Gerald Cramer, Geneva, Switzerland.
1970Recent Works by Zao Wou-Ki, Galerie de France, Paris, France.
1970Zao Wou-Ki, Paintings, Sommerakademie für Bildende Kunst, Salzburger Künstlerhaus, Salzburg, Austria.
1969 Musée du Québec, Quebec, Canada. (catalogue with foreword by Jacques Lassaigne)
1969 Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montréal, Canada.
1968 Frank Perls Gallery, Los Angeles, California, United States.
1968Paintings by Zao Wou-Ki, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, United States.
1967Galerie de France, Zao Wou-Ki - Recent Works, Galerie de France, Paris, France (catalogue with foreword by Pierre Schneider), Paris, France. (catalogue with foreword by Pierre Schneider)
1965Etchings and Lithographs by Zao Wou-Ki, S.H. Mori, Chicago, Illinois, United States.
1965Zao Wou-Ki - A Retrospective, Paintings 1950-1964, Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany.
1965Zao Wou-Ki - Watercolors, Engravings, Lithographs, Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna, Austria.
1965Zao Wou-Ki at Kootz, Kootz Gallery, New York, New York, United States.
1964 Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.
1964New Paintings by Zao Wou-Ki, Kootz Gallery, New York, New York, United States.
1963 Galerie de France, Paris, France.
1963 Redfern Gallery, London, England.
1962La Tentation de l’Occident, Galerie La Hune, Paris, France.
1962The Wonderful World of Zao Wou-Ki, Kootz Gallery, New York, New York, United States.
1961 Kootz Gallery, New York, New York, United States.
1961 Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
1960 Galerie de France, Paris, France. traveled to Stuttgart, Germany
1960New Paintings, Kootz Gallery, New York, New York, United States.
1959New Paintings, Kootz Gallery, New York, New York, United States.
1957Paintings, Galerie de France, Paris, France.
1956 Kleemann Galleries, New York, New York, United States.
1955 Galerie Pierre, Paris, France.
1954Retrospective of his engravings, The Cincinnati Museum of Fine Arts, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States.
1954Zao Wou-Ki - Paintings, Galleria del Sole, Milan, Italy. traveled to New York, New York
1953 Moderne Galerie Otto Stangl, Munich, Germany.
1953New Paintings, Cadby-Birch Gallery, New York, New York, United States.
1952 Cadby-Birch Gallery, New York, New York, United States. (catalogue with foreword by Henri Michaux)
1952 Hanover Gallery, London, England.
1952 Main Street Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, United States.
1952Zao Wou-Ki - Recent Works, Galerie Pierre, Paris, France.
1951 Galerie Feigel, Basel, Switzerland.
1951 Galerie Klipstein, Bern, Switzerland.
1951Lecture par Henri Michaux de Huit Lithographies de Zao Wou-Ki, Galerie La Hune, Paris, France.
1951Zao Wou-Ki, Paintings, Galerie Pierre, Paris, France.
1949 Galerie Creuze, Paris, France. (catalogue with foreword by Bernard Dorival)
1947Zao Wou-Ki, Ta-Hsin Department Store, Shanghai, China.
1941 Sino-Soviétic Association, Tchouang King, China.
2009 Art Paris ’09, Grand Palais, Paris, France.
2009Zao Wou Ki Porcelaines, L'art en Seine, Paris, France.
2008 2008 Art-Link Ueno-Yanaka, Tokyo, Japan. (with the Ueno Royal Museum’s Art of Our Time)
Albertina, Graphische Sammlung, Vienna, Austria
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, the Avery Brundage Collection, San Francisco, California, United States
Atenaeum Museum, Helsinki, Finland
Atlanta Art Center, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Atlanta University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Berkeley University, Medical Research Center, Los Angeles, California, United States
Bibliothèque Municipale, Nevers, France
Bibliothéque Nationale de France, Paris, France
Bibliothèque Royale Albert 1er de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium
Bridgestone Museum of Art, Ishibashi Foundation, Tokyo, Japan
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Centro Cultural de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Civica Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Milan, Italy
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, United States
Collection Nesto Jacometti, Pinacoteca Comunale Casa Rusca, Locarno, Switzerland
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan, United States
École Nationale Normale Supérieure, Lyon, France
Finch Art College Museum, New York, New York, United States
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany
Fondation Collection Thyssen-Bornemisza, Castagnola, Switzerland
Fondation François Pinault, Paris, France
Fondation Vincent Van Gogh, Arles, France
Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris, France
Fragrant Hills Hotel, loan of Beijing City, Beijing, China
Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain
Galerie der Stadt, Etta and Otto Stangl Collection, Stuttgart, Germany
Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Genoa, Italy
Grand-Ducal Collections, Luxembourg, Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, United States
Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, China
Iwaki City Art Museum, Fukushima, Japan
Jakarta Museum, Jakarta, Indonesia
Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Lieu d’Art et d’Action Contemporaine, Dunkerque, France
Manufacture Nationale de la Savonnerie, Paris, France
Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres, Paris, France
Manufacture Nationale des Gobelins, Paris, France
Musée Bertrand, Châteauroux, France
Musée de la Poste, Paris, France
Musée de l’Ancien Evêché, Evreux, France
Musée de l’Hospice Saint-Roch, Issoudun, France
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Le Havre, France
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Montréal, Canada
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Orléans, France
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tours, France
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec City, Canada
Musée des Beaux-Arts et d’Histoire Naturelle, Valence, France
Musée du Dessin et de l’Estampe Originale, Gravelines, France
Musée d’Art Contemporain, Skopja, Macedonia
Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Metz, France
Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, “Fondation Gerald Cramer” , Geneva, Switzerland
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Musée d’Art Moderne, Musées Royaux de Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium
Musée d’Histoire et d’Art, Luxembourg, Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg
Musée d’Unterlinden, Colmar, France
Musée Fabre, Montpellier, France
Musée Greuze, Tournus, France
Musée Ingres, Montauban, France
Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec, Québec, QC, Canada
Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Musée Olympique, Lausanne, Switzerland, Lausanne, Switzerland
Musée Pierre Noël, Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, France
Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico
Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao, Spain
Museo Tamayo de Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico
Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Museu Nacional de Arte Moderna, Porto, Portugal
Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, United States
Nagaoka Contemporary Art Museum, Nagaoka, Japan
National Institute of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
National Museum of History, Taipei,, Taiwan
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
Nippon Broadcasting System, Inc, Tokyo, Japan
Nobutaka Shikanei Collection, Tokyo, Japan
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, United States
Sara Hildénin Taidemuseo, Tampere, Finland
Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States
Suzhou Musem, Suzhou, China
Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Taiwan Museum of Art, Tai-Chung, Taiwan
Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
The Hakone Open-Air Museum, Hakone-Machi, Japan
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, United States
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, United States
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York, United States
The Tate Gallery, Liverpool, England
The Tate Gallery, London, England
The Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan
Veranneman Foundation, Kruishoutem, Belgium
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, United States
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
2008Marlborough Gallery. Zao Wou-Ki: Paper and China. New York: Marlborough Gallery Inc.
2008Minssieux-Chamonard, Marie et al. Zao Wou-Ki: estampes et livres illustrés. Antwerp: Deckers Druk/SnoeckDucaju.
2008Zao, Wou-Ki. L’encre, l’eau, l’air, la couleur: Encres de Chine et aquarelles 1954 – 2007. Paris: Alben Michel.
2007Frèches , José. Zao Wou-Ki. Paris: Barcelona. Ediciones Polígrafa (Spanish and English languages), Paris: Editions Hazan (French language), 2007
2006de Villepin, Dominique. Zao Wou-Ki, Carnets de voyage. Paris: Albin-Michel.
2001Chalumeau, Jean-Luc. Zao Wou-Ki: Ce qui est abstrait pour vous est réel pour moi. Paris: Éditions Cercle d’Art.
2001Duby, Georges. Zao Wou-Ki. Paris: Éditions l’Echoppe.
2000Ågerup, Jørgen. Zao Wou-Ki, L’Oeuvre Gravé: 1995-2000. Skørping: Editions Heede and Moesturp.
2000Noël, Bernard. Zao Wou-Ki: Grands Formats. Paris: Éditions Cercle d’Art.
1998Bonnefoy, Yves and Gérard de Cortanze. Zao Wou-Ki. Paris: Éditions de la Différence.
1998Martin, Claude. Zao Wou-Ki, couleurs et mots. Paris: Le Cherche-Midi. Interviews with Claude Martin, France Huser, Robert Frélaut, Claude Delay-Tubiana, François Trèves, Agnès Varda and Bernard Noël
1996Roy, Claude. Zao Wou-Ki: Collection les grands peintres. Paris: Éditions Cercle d’Art. 2nd ed., 1992. 3rd ed., 1996
1994Ågerup, Jørgen. Zao Wou-Ki, L’Oeuvre Gravé: A Catalogue Raisonné. 1937-1995. Skørping: Editions Heede and Moesturp. introduction by Dora Vallier
1993Daix, Pierre. Zao Wou-Ki: L’oeuvre 1935-1993. Neuchâtel: Édition Ides et Calendes.
1993Michaux, Henri. Jeux d’encre: Trajet Zao Wou-Ki. Paris: L’Echoppe and La Maison des Amis du Livre. (gathering all the texts by Henri Michaux).
1989Noël, Bernard. Zao Wou-Ki: Encres. Paris: Édition Libraire Séguier-Archimbaud.
1988Abadie, Daniel and Martine Contensou. Zao Wou-Ki: Les maîtres de l’art. Hannover: Ars Mundi. 1st ed., Spanish and English language 2nd ed. Barcelona: Ediciones Polígrafa, 1989. Chinese language 3rd ed. Taipei: Cultural Edition Co. Ltd., 1993, translated by Fou Chun-Sin
1988Yu, Jing Feng and François Cheng. Zao Wou-Ki. Overseas Chinese Artists Series. Guang-Zhou: Edition Lingnan Art Publishing House.
1988Zao, Wou-Ki and Françoise Marquet. Autoportrait. Paris: Edition Fayard. Chinese language, Taipei: Artistes Edition, 1993, translated by Lin Ti. Chinese language, China: Lio Ling Art Edition, 1993, translated by Meu Chin-Ming.
1984Hsu, Kai-Yu. Color and Light in the Canvases of Zao Wou-Ki. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press.
1980Michaux, Henri and Françoise Marquet. Zao Wou-Ki: Encres. Paris: Éditions Cercle d’Art.
1979Min, Chang. Zao Wou-Ki. Shanghai: Waiguo Wengi.
1978Leymarie, Jean. Zao Wou-Ki. Barcelona: Ediciones Polígrafa. Paris: Edition Hier et Demain, 1978. English language ed. New York: Rizzoli, 1979, translated by Kenneth Lyons. Completed and advanced edition with Françoise Marquet, Paris: Éditions Cercle d’Art and Barcelona: Ediciones Polígrafa, 1986.
1978Vallier, Dora and Françoise Marquet. Zao Wou-Ki: En torno el gesto. Barcelona: Ediciones Polígrafa.
1977De Vree, Freddy. Zao Wou-Ki. Schelderode: Kunstforum. 1st ed., 1977. 2nd ed. French language Schelderode: Kunstforum, 1981
1975Marquet, Françoise. Zao Wou-Ki: Les estampes 1937-1974. Paris: Yves Rivière Éditeurs. preface by Roger Caillois.
1974Laude, Jean. Zao Wou-Ki. Brussels: Éditions la Connaissance.
1967Schneider, Pierre. Les dialogues du Louvre. Paris: Editions Denoël. Re-issued in 1969. English language, New York: Atheneum, 1969. Re-issued in French language: Adam Biro, Paris, 1991
1962Ragon, Michel. Zao Wou-Ki. In Cimaise n° 57. Madrid: préface de la plaquette éditée par Cuadernos de Arte del Ateneo.
1960Roy, Claude. Zao Wou-Ki. New York: Evergreen Press inc.. London: Evergreen Books, translated to English by Rita Barisse.
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1955Jacometti, Nesto. Zao Wou-Ki: Catalogue Raisonné of Engravings and Lithographs,1949-1954. Bern: Gutenkunst and Klipstein.
1955Roy, Claude. Zao Wou-Ki. Paris: Georges Fall. preface by Henri Michaux, collection "Le Musée de poche". 2nd ed. Paris: Goldschmidt, 1970, collection "Le Musée de poche".
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