Zhang Xiaoming (1957) was born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. He graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the China Academy of Art in 1984 and stayed there to teach. In 1985, he participated in Zao Wou-ki's painting workshop. He studied at the Aix Academy of Fine Arts in France and the Paris National Higher Academy of Decorative Arts; from 2001 to 2002, he was awarded a scholarship from the National Scholarship Fund, and studied at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Paris.