Tai Xiangzhou
Introduction
Tai was born in Ningxia Province to a scholarly family in 1968 and started studying calligraphy with Hu Gongshi since he was 7 years old. He graduated from the Department of Digital Media, Media Design School, Auckland, New Zealand in 2001. Although he had a successful career in media design and conservation, he decided to further his studies in painting and received a Ph.D. from the Department of Painting, Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China in 2012. He layers different gray ink tones on silk to enrich the brushwork and to give a misty atmosphere similar to the vast universe.
He has had more than 30 solo and group exhibitions around the world, including New York, Seattle, United States; Wiesbaden, Germany; Maastricht, Netherlands; Shanghai, Beijing, China; Taipei, Hong Kong, and Macau. His paintings have been collected by major museums worldwide including Brooklyn Museum, New York; Art Institute of Chicago; Seattle Art Museum; Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, The Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M Sackler Gallery, Washington D.C.; Arthur M Sackler Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven; Arthur M Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology, Peking University; Zhonghua Book Company, Beijing; Exhibition Gallery of Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau, Macau.
BIOGRAPHY
1968 Born in Yinchuan, Ningxia Province, China
1975-79 Studied Chinese calligraphy with Hu Gongshi and Wang Wenjun
1987 Studied Chinese classics and calligraphy under Feng Qiyong
1991- 96 Studied the mounting and restoration of ancient Chinese calligraphy and painting under Cui Yurun and Li Zhenjiang
1999-2001 Department of Digital Media, Media Design School, Auckland, New Zealand
2002 Artistic Director, hdtMEDIA, China
2003 Artistic Director, CCTV.com, China
2004 Founder and Executive Director, China Heritage Magazine
2006-12 Ph.D., Department of Painting, Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
2018 Gave a speech at the Oxford China Forum "A New China", University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Present Lives and works in Beijing, China
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
- Cosmo Capes: Ink Paintings by Tai Xiangzhou, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
- Ocean: Ink Works by Tai Xiangzhou, Four Seasons Hotel, Macau
- Tai Xiangzhou Solo Exhibition Shanghai Salon, Christie's Shanghai Art Space, Shanghai, China
2020
- Tai Xiangzhou: A Retroactive New World, Can Art Centre, Beijing, China
2018
- Tai Xiangzhou: Celestial Law, Tokyo Gallery+BTAP, Tokyo, Japan
2017
- Tai Xiangzhou: Speculative Cosmologies, Ink Studio, Beijing, China
2016
- Celestial Tales, Yi&C Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan
2015
- Celestial Tales, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, USA
2014
- Knowing Heaven and Earth through Observation: Chinese Ink Paintings by Tai Xiangzhou, Exhibition Gallery of Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau, Macau
2013
- Magnificence Within: New Ink Paintings by Tai Xiangzhou, Chinese Porcelain Company, New York, USA
2011
- Homocentric Objective: Landscape Paintings of Tai Xiangzhou, Arthur M. Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology, Peking University, Beijing, China
- Celestial Tales: Ink Paintings by Tai Xiangzhou, 798 Art Bridge Gallery, Beijing, China
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
- The Magic of Zen: Celebration of Chinese Language Day, Secretariat Building, United Nations, New York, USA
2020
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Self-entertain, Man Space, Beijing, China
2019
- Foresights: Transformation between Tradition and Future, Guardian Art Centre, Beijing, China
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Arts of China: New Acquisitions, Asian Galleries, Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
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Landscapes of the Mind, Marquand Mather Court, Priceton University Art Museum, Priceton, USA
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Everlasting Like the Heavens: The Cultures and Arts of the Zhou, Qin, Han, and Tang, Tsinghua University Art Museum, Beijing, China
- Yaozhou Procelain of Shangshan Tang Collection, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
- The Painted Screen Past and Future, curated by Wu Hong, Suzhou Museum, Suzhou, China
- Group exhibition of Chinese Art, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, USA
- Group exhibition of Chinese Art, Exhibition Hall of Chinese Art, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, USA
- Group exhibition of Chinese Art, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
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Ink Worlds: Contemporary Chinese Painting from the Collection of Akiko Yamazaki and Jerry Yang, The Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, USA
- Chinese Abstraction, Art Basel Hong Kong, Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong
- Mirroring China’s Past: Emperors and Their Bronzes, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
- Splendors of the Sun and Moon, Contemporary Art Exhibition of China, Museo Querini Stampalia Fondazione, Venice, Italy
- Intersection: International Art and Culture, Arthur M. Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology, Peking University, Beijing, China
- 5th Neo-Moroism(2013-2018), Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
2017
- Tai Xiangzhou & Zhang Yirong: One with the Universe, Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong
- Shuimo, Sotheby’s S|2 Gallery, New York, USA
2016
- Experimenting China in Peru: APEC “Human and Nature” Art Exhibition, Museo Nacional de Arqueología, Antropología e Historia del Perú, Lima, Peru
- Asia Week New York, New York, USA
- The 12th China International Gallery Exposition, China National Convention Centre, Beijing, China
2015
- Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami Beach Convention Centre, Miami, USA
- Seattle Art Fair, CenturyLink Field Event Centre, Seattle, USA
- The European Fine Art Fair, Maastricht Exhibition & Convention Centre, Maastricht, Netherlands
- Shuimo: Ten Thousand Blossoms Spring, Sotheby’s S|2 Gallery, New York, USA
2014
- Shuimo/Water Ink: Enchanted Landscapes, Sotheby’s S|2 Gallery, New York, USA
- Art Basel Hong Kong, Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong
- As Above So Below: Exhibition of Contemporary Ink Art, The Fringe Club, Hong Kong
- Asia Week New York, New York, USA
2013
- Picturing Heaven and Earth: Landscape paintings by Zhang Hong & Tai Xiangzhou, 798 Art Bridge Gallery, Beijing, China
- Art Basel Hong Kong, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong
- Shuimo/Water Ink: Chinese Contemporary Ink Painting, Sotheby’s S|2 Gallery, New York, USA
2012
- Sharjah Calligraphy Biennial, Sharjah Calligraphy Museum, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
- The Chinese Scholar: Ink Painting and Artwork, Fuller Building, New York, USA
2011
- The Art of Writing: Contemporary Art from Three Cultures, Art Forum in der Kurhaus Kolonnade, Wiesbaden, Germany
- Ink Paintings by Liu Dan, Zeng Xiaojun & Tai Xiangzhou, Chinese Porcelain Company, New York, USA
2010
- I Call the Shots of My Youth: “Giant Cup” Today National Art Students Annual Awards 2010, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
- All About Paper, China Folk Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2009
- From Nature to Mind, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
- Ink Play: The 2nd Young Chinese and Korean Artists Exchange Exhibition, Korean Cultural Service in China, Beijing, China
SELECTED AWARDS
1986 First Prize, National Calligraphy Competition by University Students, China
1989 Second Prize, Beijing Calligraphy Competition by University Students, China
2001 “Highly Commended in Innovation”, Prize of the Industrial Panel Award, Media Design School, Auckland, New Zealand
2010 Excellence Award, “Giant Cup” Today National Art Students Annual Awards 2010, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, USA
The Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, USA
Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, USA
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, USA
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, USA
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, USA
Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, United States
Arthur M. Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology, Peking University, Beijing, China
Zhonghua Book Company, Beijing, China
Exhibition Gallery of Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau, Macau
