Zhou Li

Zhou Li’s lines are self-conscious and draw on traditional Chinese art and aesthetics for transformative resources. It is worth noting that
is that although the linear style is one of the fundamental characteristics of Chinese art, traditional calligraphy and painting theory does not discuss line, but only
“The use of the brush”. The expressive free linearity seen in Zhou Li’s works is in fact a reflection of the ‘use of the brush’ in Chinese painting and calligraphy. Her
lines gyrate, turn, traverse and intersect; and in the process of moving the wrist and turning the brush, they fall and rise, giving the lines a rich variety of forms
The lines are also a metaphor for multiple spaces.

1991 Graduated from Oil Painting Department of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts

1995-2003 Lived and worked in France & China

Currently lives and works in Shenzhen

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2020 Lost in Green: ZHOU LI, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China

2019 Original State of Mind, White Cube Bermondsey, London, UK

2017 The Ring of Life: Zhou Li Solo Exhibition, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

          Zhou Li: Shadow of the Wind, Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China

2002 The World Inside the Window: Paintings of Zhou Li, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China

          The World Inside the Window: Paintings of Zhou Li, Shenzhen Fine Art Institute, Shenzhen, China

2001 The World Inside the Window: Paintings of Zhou Li, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China

          The World Inside the Window, Gallery of University of Virginia Tech University, U.S.A

1998 Zhou Li Solo Exhibition, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China

Selected Group Exhibitions

2017 AURA and VITALITY: 12 Oriental Aesthetic Samples in Contemporary Art, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Shenzhen, China

2016 A Ride to Combine: Hive’s Special Exhibition 2016, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

          The World is Yours, as well as Ours, Mason’s Yard, London, UK

          Divided Unity: Shenzhen International Contemporary Artists Invitation Exhibition, Artron Art Centre, Shenzhen, China

          TOO LOUD A SOLITUDE: Stalkers of Chinese Contemporary Art, Hive Center of Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

2015 The Boundaries of Order, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

2013 One Meter Square: Situation, Linda Gallery, Beijing, China

          History Lessons: Reflections on OCAT Publishing, Shenzhen, China

          He Xiangning Art Museum: Collection of Contemporary Art, Shenzhen, China

2009 Naturally: Invitation Exhibition of Female Artists from Wuhan and Shenzhen, Guan Shanyue Art Museum, Shenzhen, China

2007 QiYun, OCT, Shenzhen, China; Beijing Art Now Gallery, Beijing, China; Artist Commune, Hong Kong, China; China Square, New York, U.S.A

2006 The Third Space: Chinese Text of Abstract Art, Shanghai Museum of Art, Shanghai, China

2005 Body Temperature – Invoking the Legacy of Hans Christian Anderson through Chinese Contemporary Art, China Millennium Monument, Beijing, China; Denmark

2000 Art Monte-Carlo, Monaco