Born in Tianjin, China

Graduated from Tianjin Academy of Arts and Crafts. Chief editor of the series Modern Ink and Wash Painting and Chinese Open and Experimental Ink and Wash. Presently associate professor and dean of the Artistic Design Department, Tianjin Traffic Vocational College.

"THE 27th ASIAN MODERN ART EXHIBITION", Tokyo-to Art Museum; The Ueno Royal Museum, Japan
"CHINESE NEW LITERATI PAINTING EXHIBITION", Traditional Chinese Painting Research Institute, Beijing, China

"THE 2nd EXHIBITION OF CHINESE REALISTIC PAINTING WITH BRUSHWORK", Museum of Chinese History
"EXHIBITION OF PRIZE-WINNING WORKS OF GE SHAN PAINTING COMPETITION", Ge Shan Art Gallery of Taiwan; Singapore Cultural Relics Museum

"CHINESE ARTIST ZHANG YU: MODERN INK AND WASH EXHIBITION", Belyaevo Modern Art Museum, Moscow, Russia

"ZHANG YU: FAN PAINTING EXHIBITION", Zhuxianxuan Art Gallery, Hong Kong

"ZERO ART EXHIBITION", Gent Exhibition Center, Belgium

"INK AND LIGHT", Gent Exhibition Center, Belgium

"BACK TO THE HOMELAND: JOINT EXHIBITION OF CONTEMPORARY CHINESE EXPERIMETAL INK AND WASH", RIM Art Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Planned and participated in the Symposium on the Contemporary Chinese Ink and Wash Toward the 21st Century and the Exhibition for Viewing and Emulating (Art Gallery of South China Normal University, Guangzhou,China).

"NEW ART OF INK AND WASH EXHIBITION", Berlin Art Museum; Halle Museum; TTT Art Center, Germany
"GRAND EXHIBITION OF CHINESE ART", Shanghai Art Museum, China
"STARS OF THE CENTURY: CHINESE ART BIENNIAL", Ontario Art Museum, Canada

"INSIDE OUT: NEW CHINESE ART EXHIBITION", P.S.1 Modern Art Gallery, New York; Modern Art Gallery, San Francisco, USA; Hong Kong Art Gallery
"SHANGHAI BIENNIAL", Shanghai Art Museum, China
"The 13th Asian International Art Exhibition", National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

"THE 14th ASIAN INTERNATIONAL ART EXHIBITION", Fukuoka Modern Art Gallery, Japan
"ART EXHIBITION OF DIALOGUE 1999", Art Gallery of Beijing International Art Palace, China

"GRAND EXHIBITION OF NEW CHINESE PAINTING", Liu Haisu Art Gallery, Shanghai; Jiangsu Art Museum, China
"SINO-GERMANY ART EXCHANGE EXHIBITION: COLOUR, BRUSH AND INK", German Embassy, Beijing, China

"DREAM 01", Atlantic Gallery, London, UK
"DUSSELDORF MODERN ART EXHIBITION", Dusseldorf Exhibition Center, Germany
"20 YEARS OF EXPERIMENT IN CHINESE INK AND WASH", Guangdong Art Museum, China

"THE 17th ASIAN INTERNATIONAL ART EXHIBITION", Taejon Art Museum, Korea
"CHINA: SUI JIANGUO, ZHANG YU AND ZHAN WANG", The Building of London Bank, UK
"ZERO MATERIAL ART EXHIBITION", Art Gallery of the Central Academy of Fine Arts
"EAST + WEST: EXHIBITION OF CONTEMPORARY CHINESE ART", Artists' Home, Vienna, Austria
"A NEW ERA OF INK AND WASH: CROSS-STRAITS EXCHANGE EXHIBITION OF CONTEMPORARY INK AND WASH", Father of the Republic Memorial Hall of Taiwan, Jeff Hsu's Art Gallery

"CHINESE ART TODAY", China Millennium Monument Artist Museum, Beijing, China
"EXHIBITION OF CHINESE EXPERIMENTAL INK AND WASH", Red Gate Gallery

?UNRELATED TO REALITY!: CONTEMPORARY CHINESE ART", Shanghai Liu Haisu Museum, Shang hai, China
"ENVIRONMENT: 2004: THE 1st EXHIBITION OF INTERNATIONAL ART", Seoul COEX, Korea
"THE 4th SHENZHEN INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL OF INK AND WASH", Guan Shanyue Art Gallery, Shenzhen, China
"DREAM OF THE DRAGON NATION: CHINESE ARTS EXHIBITION OF THE TIME", Ireland Art Gallery of Modern, Dublin, Ireland
"IMAGE GROUP: CHINESE ARTS EXHIBITION OF THE TIME", Yokohama, Japan
"NANJING INK AND WASH PAINTING MEDIA TRIENNIUM EXHIBITION", Fu Baoshi Award, Art Gallery of Jiangsu Province, Nanjing, China