1981年出生于陕西，2005年毕业于西安美术学院，现工作、生活于北京。张英楠的绘画既是写实的，又是超现实的：在绘画手法上，他的作品富有古典主义画作的细腻与典雅，构图严整、简洁；但在内容上，却往往布满了奇巧之思，为熟悉平凡的空间赋予梦境一般的质感，在画布上构建着充满想象的时空关系。
在艺术家克制、沉静的用色下，这些“不可能”的情境总是携带着些许伤感、孤独的底色；对于张英楠而言，画中弥漫的失落情绪来源于他对于人与人关系的体察。儿时在乡间大院里成长的经历，与成年后在城市里求学、工作之所见所感形成了极大的反差：邻里生活间的亲密，在都市里变为了人与人相处时的淡漠与疏离。画作中空荡寂寥的一个个空间指向失落的曾经，也象征着当代人精神与心理状态的空洞，更是艺术家寄托自己思绪、情感与记忆的想象之所。
Born in 1981 in Shaanxi, China, Zhang graduated from Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts in 2005. He now lives and works in Beijing. Zhang's paintings combine both realist and surrealist qualities: in terms of painting technique, his works are rich in the subtlety and elegance of classical paintings, with neat and concise compositions; but their contents are often saturated with whimsical and ingenious ideas, lending a dreamlike touch to familiar and ordinary spaces while establishing imaginative spacetime relationships on the canvas.
Beneath the artist's reserved and contemplative application of colours, these “impossible” scenes often contain an underlying sentiment of sorrow and isolation; for Zhang Yingnan, the sense of melancholy that pervades his works originates from his perception of interpersonal relationships. His childhood experience of growing up in a village compound contrasts drastically with the experience of studying and working in the metropolis as an adult: the affinity of living within a rural community became the indifference and detachment of the urban relationships. The vacant and desolate environments in the paintings signify the lost pass, the hollowness of contemporary mental and psychological states, and the place of imagination where the artist settles his thoughts, feelings, and memories.
