1958年出生于昆明。1982年毕业于四川美术学院油画系，现生活和工作于北京。
自九十年代始，张晓刚运用冷峻内敛及白日梦般的艺术风格传达出具有时代特征的集体心理记忆与情绪。这种对社会、集体、个人以及家庭、血缘的悖谬式的呈现和模拟是一种从艺术、情感以及人生的角度出发的再演绎，具有强烈的当代意义，是当代艺术所蕴世故的中国情境的最佳体现。
Born in Kunming in 1958. Graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 1982, now lives and works in Beijing, China.
Since the 1990s, Zhang has resorted to a somewhat grim, introspective, and surrealistic artistic expression to convey collective memory and psyche characteristics of the time. The paradoxical representation and simulation of society, the collective, individuals, families, and bloodlines are in fact a reinterpretation through the lens of art, emotion, and life. Profoundly contemporary in nature, his works epitomize the intricacies deeply embedded in the Chinese context.
