About
Artist Biography
Qiaoyun Zhou
Born in Hunan, China.
She graduated from Fine Arts College of Hunan Normal University with a bachelor's degree in Chinese painting in 1999. In 2006, she graduated from Fine Arts College of Hunan Normal University with a master's degree in Ink painting.
Since 2006, she has been teaching in the School of Architecture and Art of Central South University as an associate professor and master tutor. She has settled in Changsha. Set up a personal studio in Beijing from 2008 to 2018.
Her works have been exhibited in many galleries and museums in China, the United States, Japan, Thailand, etc, as well as the collection of several art galleries and numerous private collections.Qiaoyun Zhou has curated international Women's art Exhibition. She spent half a month in Japan during the 8th Toyama International Contemporary Art Exhibition in 2018 and half a year in Beijing Shangyuan Art Museum in 2019 as an artist in residence. She is currently a visiting scholar at Oneonta College, State University of New York.
Lines in Rendering
--Qiaoyun Zhou’s Open Studio and Exhibition
In the early stage of my artistic development, I spent 10 years in researching and exploring the use of lines and color rendering in Chinese painting:
I am obsessed with experience the walking of lines, the flow and spread of color in my creation: each line is a track of personal life experience, accompanied by desire and passion, freedom and resistance, and they are mixed with solitude in calm, agitation in noise and tears in doubt. The continuous emergence, triggering and extension of petals, stamens and other objects in the lines, the connection and replication between a single element and other elements, dissociation and collision, are all irresistible representations of female self-consciousness in her environment.
The rendering of each piece of color is to convey the experience of self-living environment and space. In the calm flow, there is a hidden indulging of its expansion. Many seemingly the same colors have different changes in the details. Beauty but hidden in everyday life is a subtle and unspeakable mystery and absurdity, integrating the struggle and pain of female identity in the current environment, anxiety and longing, mixed with a fear of the unknown and a sense of peace and happiness that grow with experience.
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Education
In 1999, she graduated from Fine Arts College of Hunan Normal University with a bachelor's degree in Chinese painting
In 2006, she graduated from Fine Arts College of Hunan Normal University with a master's degree in Ink painting
Solo exhibition
2019 Emergence-Zhou Qiaoyun Solo Exhibition, Shangyuan Art Museum, Beijing
2018 36.9 Celsius Degree—Exhibition of Zhou Qiaoyun's Works, ARTOBJ, Changsha
2015 Flower & Addiction—Zhou Qiaoyun Works Exhibition, Zhuangtai Art Museum,
Changsha
2014 Tranquil & Elegant—Works exhibition of Zhou Qiaoyun, Cangfu Art Museum,
Changsha
Exhibition Planning
2020 Dimensions of Identity -- International Women's Art Exhibition, Meixi Exhibition Hall, Changsha
Major exhibitions
2022 The 9th Toyama International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Shinkawa Cultural Center, Toyama, Japan
2021 On Going -- Changde Liuyehu Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition, Changde Art Museum, Changde
2021 Field of The Wild -- Changsha In Situ Installation Art Exhibition, Chaozong Street, Changsha
2021 Wandering Paradise, Gun Art Space, Changsha
2020 Bi Xiang—International Document Art Exhibition of Women's Era, Wutong Art Museum, Shanghai
2020 Unbounded·Freedom-2020 Influence Future Art Carnival Youth Art Project, Meixi Academy, Changsha
2019 Trajectory-Youth Contemporary Fine Brushwork Exhibition, Xing Shang Qing Art Space, Xiamen
2019 China•Beijing Style-International Exchange Exhibition of Japanese and Chinese Female Painters, Sagamihara Art Museum, Sagamihara, Japan
2018 Variable—The Second Nomination Exhibition of Young Meticulous Painters in Hunan Province, Meilun gallary, Changsha
2018 Light Tendril Plan—Xinyu Invitational Exhibition of Female Ink Painting Artists 798 Sprawl Space. Beijing
2018 The 8th Tomiyama International Modern Art Exhibition, Toyama County Xinchuan Cultural Center, Japan
2017 Qi & Objects—Joint Exhibition of Claborate-style Painting of Hunan and Hubei, Meilun Art Museum, Changsha
2017 Lark in the Sky—The Modern Youth Art Exhibition(11 Artists), Duishan Art Museum, Xiamen
2017 Pretend—Female Artists Works Exhibition,Qianxiya Painting salon,Wuhan
2016 Unbounded—Modern Art Exchange Exhibition, Making Culture OCT Space, Shenzhen
2016 Fire Within—A New Generation of Chinese Women Arists, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, Lansing, USA
2016 World Tour Exhibition of First Session Art Online International Female Artists
Association, Tokyo China Cultural Center, Tokyo, Japan
2015 Neo-Perception—China's New Generation of Women Artists, Pearl Lam Galleries, Shanghai
2015 Blossom—the First Session of 100 Chinese Contemporary Women Artists Exhibition, Chengdu OCT Creative Center, Chengdu
2015 Gaze—2015 Biennale of Contemporary Arts of Female Chinese Artists, Hebei Normal University Museum, Shijiazhuang
2015 5+5 Exhibition, Micha Naya Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2014 On Paper—2014 Contemporary Art Invitation Exhibition, Luohu Art Museum, Shenzhen
2014 Images of the mind for youth—2014 First Guan Shanyue Art Museum Youth Elaborate- style Painting Art exhibition, Guan Shanyue Art Museum, Shenzhen
2014 Reclusion in City: The 1st Dongguan farmer's Market International Art Festival, Maoyuan center market, Dongguan
2014 The 3rd Flowers-and-Birds Art Exhibition of Hunan Province, Hunan Province Art Museum, Changsha
2013 Similar and Different:Hunan Youth Elaborate-style Painting Nomination Exhibition, Yusi Space, Changsha
2013 Art Macao, Venetian Hotel Golden light exhibition A Gallery, Macao
2013 Square Inch—Contemporary Ink Painting Invitation Exhibition, Art-Triumph Art space, Beijing
2012 Image-the Impression of Mind, the 2nd Exhibition, Shenzhen Museum, Shenzhen
2012 Art Work Exchange Exhibition of Sino-Japanese Artists, Hunan Printmaking Museum, Changsha
2011 History—New Songzhuang: Break The Boundary Contemporary Ink Exhibition, Sunshine International Art Museum, Beijing
2010 From Dongying to Songzhuang & Hunan Contemporary Art Exhibition, HE Art museum, Beijing
2009 Contemporary Art Exhibition of "Chongqing Post Station" in China, 501 Contemporary Art Museum, Chongqing