张培力1957年生于中国杭州。1984年毕业于杭州浙江美术学院油画系。20世纪80年代，张培力是杭州的观念 艺术小组“池社”的创建者之一，同时也是杭州先锋艺术运动的主要成员之一。80年代末、90年代初，张培力创 作了一系列具有开创性的影像作品，被认为是中国影像艺术之父。艺术家现为杭州中国美术学院新媒体系教授。 21世纪头几年，张培力将主要精力放在中国的艺术教育上，他的学生中很多人成为重要的影像、摄影及新媒体 艺术家。过去几年里，张培力又回归到了更深刻的艺术探索与实践中。张培力早期的作品带有沉闷美学的色彩， 社会及政治控制是他所关注的主题。张培力的作品总是暗含社会指喻，他也正是以尖刻的反讽而著称——张培力 一贯保持着嘲笑的语气而不是将之降为一般意义的讽刺。他最近的许多作品通过重新剪辑已有的电影胶片审视 那些约定俗成的规矩、对时间的感知、对发展的想法；这也是对媒体艺术界线的挑战，在过去十年里，张培力将 精力集中于复杂的影像装置。

Zhang Peili was born in 1957 in Hangzhou, China. He graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts in Hangzhou in 1984 with a degree in oil painting. In the 1980s, he was a founding member of the artists’ collective “Pond Society,” and acted as a cornerstone of the avant-garde movement in Hangzhou. Considered the father of video art in China because of his groundbreaking work in the late 1980s and early 1990s, he is currently a professor at the New Media Department of the China Academy of Fine Arts in Hangzhou. In the first years of this century, he devoted much of his attentions to art education in China, and counts numerous important video, photography, and new media artists among his former students. In the past several years he has returned to a more intensive artistic practice. His earlier works experimented with an aesthetics of boredom and have treated themes of social and political control. Zhang Peili`s work is always implicitly political, and he is infamous for his incisive use of irony that maintains a consistently mocking tone without descending into satire. His more recent work interrogates viewing conventions, perceptions of time, and notions of progress through the remixing and editing of found footage; it also challenges the boundaries of media art, having focused on complex video installations for the past ten years.