Event

The Department of History of Art has organized a presentation, to be presented by the internationally renowned artist and scholar, Mr. Guangzhen Zhou.

Guangzhen Zhou(1953-) born in Shanghai, is a ceramic educator, writer, and artist. He received a master's degree from the University of Minnesota-Duluth and San Jose State University in California. He is a council member of the International Academy of Ceramics, a board member of the Association of Clay and Glass of California Artists (2010-2015), a guest professor of the Shanghai Institute of Visual Art, director of the Chinese Ceramic Art Council USA, and column editors of a few ceramic art magazines. He served as the curator of Abu Dhabi Chinese Contemporary Ceramic Art, UNESCO-NGO Beijing Forum - IAC International Ceramics Exhibition, and was a juror of the 39th Gualdo Tadino International Ceramic Art Competition, Korean International Ceramic Biennale (GICB 2019). 

Mr. Zhou arrived in the U.S. 1989 and received an MA from the University of Minnesota-Duluth and an MFA from San Jose University, California. He has had four books published, titled American Ceramic Artists Today (1998), Chinese Ceramic Cultural Sites-A Traveler’s Handbook (2004), Carry on Clay Art on My Iron Shoulder (2010), and Appreciation and Collection of Modern and Contemporary Ceramic Art (2012). He has presented lectures in many schools all over China, Tokyo University of Arts and Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale 2013. Since 1999, he has been a ceramic cultural liaison between Chinese and American. He was a curator or juror of many ceramic exhibitions in the US, China and Abu Dhabi, such as “Chinese Contemporary Ceramic Art Exhibition-Denver 2000 (NCECA)”, “Yixing International Ceramic Art Conference and Exhibition of 2001 and 2005”, “International Small Teapot Show and Competition at Saddleback College, California, (2004 to 2012)”, and “Beyond the Function—International Contemporary Teapot Exhibition” 2009 (NCECA), the Chinese Decorative Ceramic Art at Abu Dhabi 2013, “Beyond the Time and Space-Chinese Contemporary Ceramics” – IAC Dublin 2014, and One Humanity Beyond the Diversity – International Ceramic Art Exchange Documentary and Artworks Exhibition – in conjunction with NGO-UNESCO Rapprochement of Cultures-International Decade-Beijing Forum 2015. Mr. Zhou’s artworks have been exhibited widely in the US, China, Japan, and Europe, including Ceramic Annual of America-San Francisco, Sevres National Ceramic Museum in Paris France, Art Museum in Beijing, Shanghai Art Museum, Zhejiang Art Museum, etc., also, his artworks were collected by Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Duluth, American Museum of Ceramic Art, Tokyo University of Arts Japan, and many ceramics museum in China, such as Yixing in Jiangsu Province, Jingdezhen in Jiangxi Province, Shiwan in Guangdong Province and Zibo in Shandong Province, plus many private collectors.