Zhou Tiehai     周铁海

Born in Shanghai, China in 1966
Fine Arts School of Shanghai University, China
1998 First Prize, Contemporary Chinese Art Award, (CCAA Association, Switzerland)
1987 Graduated from Fine Arts School of Shanghai University
Works and lives in Shanghai, China
 

2008

Opuscule, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai

Our Future-The Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation Collection, Ullens Foundation, Beijing

The World of Other's: A Contemporary Art Exhibition, Museum of Contemportary Art, Shanghai

Where Are We, Beijing Center for the Arts at Legation Quarter, Beijing, China

Art Multiple 2008, Ke Center for the Contemporary Arts, Shanghai

Community of Tastes - The Inaugural Exhibition of Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Iberia Center for Contemporar Art

Shanghart Group Exhibition, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai

Red Aside-Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, The Joan Miró Foundation, Sants-Montju?c, Spain

The Real Thing-Contemporary Art from China, IVAM, Valencia, Spain

Selected, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai

2007

La Cina è vicina-a cura di Diego Esposito, in collaborazione con CIVITA, Via die Mille 60-80122 Napoli,Italy

Bamboo/Happiness-Zhou Tiehai, Zhang Peili Exhibition - Re-opening Exhibition of Creative Center@Bund18, No. 18 Zhongshan East Road (E1) 4/F, Shanghai

Absolute Images II-Inaugural Exhibition Of Arario Gallery New York, Arario Gallery New York

ShanghART Autumn Exhibition, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai

2007 Wuhan 2nd Documentary Exhibition of Fine Arts-Theme Exhibit. Forms of Concepts: The Reform of Concepts of Chinese Contemporary Art 1987-2007－The New Generation and Bad Art, Wuhan

Reboot: The Third Chengdu Biennial, New International Convention Center of Chengdu Century City

Rockers Island: Olbricht Collection, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany

Individual Positions 1, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai

The Real Thing-Contemporary Art from China, Tate Liverpool, UK

2006

EGO, Art&Public, Geneva, Switzerland

An Other History, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai

Day in the Castle, Yuanda City, Changsha, Hunan

Zhou Tiehai:Oil paintings 2006, Galerie Frank Schlag & Cie., Essen, Germany

Art in Motion, Moca Shanghai, Shanghai

2006 Melbourne International Arts Festival, Melbourne, Australia

Infinite Painting-Contemporary Painting and Global Realism, Villa Manin - Centre for Contemporary Art Passariano, Codroipo (Udine), Italy

Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany

Contemporary Chinese Art, Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany

The 5th AsiaPacific Triennial of Contemporary Art (APT5), Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA), Queensland Art Gallery

Contemporary China, PKM Gallery, Seoul, Korea

Para todos los publicos / For all audiences, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain

2005

Born in China, Goedhuis Contemporary, London, UK

Montpellier/Chine:MC1 Biennale international-The First International Biennial of Contemporary Chinese Art Montpellier-China, Montpellier, France

Mahjong-Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Prague Biennale 2, National Gallery,Prague, Czech Republic

In Their 40's, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai

On the Edge: Contemporary Chinese Artists Encounter the West, Stanford University, US

China, Contemporary Painting, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio, Bologna, Italy

Study Practice, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai

Follow Me!-Contemporary Chinese Art at the Threshold of the Millenium, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

2004

'Tonic +'-solo show by Zhou Tiehai, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai

Works 1989-2003, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai

Shanghai Modern, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany

5th Shanghai Biennale-Techniques of the Visible, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai

Shanghai Surprise, Lothringer Str 13 - St?dtische Kunsthalle München, Munich, Germany

Rogue Nations: Cuban & Chinese Artists, MACLA (Movimiento de Arte Cultura Latino Americana), San Jose, CA, USA

2003

Zhou Tiehai, Marella Arte Comtemporanea, Milan, Italy

Open Sky-Grand Opening of Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai

Fabricated Paradises-Chinese Contemporary Art, Le Parvis centre d'art contemporain, Pau, France

The American Effect, Whitney Museum, New York, U.S.A.

Out of Focus: A Dimension for Painting, 25000 Cultural Transmission Center, Beijing

Different Choice-The Invited Exhibition of the Shanghai 60's Artists, Bandao Gallery, Shanghai

Alors la Chine?, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

Out of the Red - La generation emergente,, Trevi Flash Art Museum, Milan, Italy

Urbanart 2003, City of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

2002

The First Guangzhou Trienniale-Reinterpretation: A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art (1990subtle2000), Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou

Quick Look!-Shanghai Zhejiang Jiangsu Anhui Contemporary Art Exhibition, Consulate General of Switzerland, Shanghai

4th Gwangju Biennial, Gwangju, Korea

Art and Economy, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany

Korean and Chinese painting - 2002 New Expression, Seoul Arts Center, Korea

Take Part II, Galerie Urs Meile, Luzern, Switzerland

Paris-Pekin-Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris, France

24:30 Contemporary Art Exhibition, Bizart, Shanghai

2001

Zhou Tiehai -the artist isn't here, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai

Duravit > Shanghart-TAF, Art Fair Taipei, Taiwan

Silhouettes Shape 'n Shadows, Wilhelmina Quarter, Tilburg, The Netherlands

Gallery Opening, Goedhuis Contemporary, New York, U.S.A.

Take Part, Galerie Urs Meile, Luzern, Switzland

The 1st Chengdu Biennal, Chengdu Modern Art Museum, Chengdu

Living in Time-29 Contemporary Artists from China, National galerie im Hamburger Bahnhof Museum fuer Gegenwartskunst, Berlin, Germany

2000

Zhou Tiehai: 3 Scrolls, Art Statements, ART 31 BASEL, Switzerland

Art 31 Basel-Art Statement Solo Presentation Zhou Tiehai Scrolls, Art Fair Switzerland

Will, Gallery Quadrum, Lisbon, Portugal

Met in Shanghai, Schloss Morsbroich, Germany

Placebo Swiss, Hara Museum, Tokyo, Japan

Pusan International Art Festival, Pusan, Korea

Media City-Curator Barbara London, Seoul, Korea

Dystopia + Identity in the Age of Global Communications, Tribes Gallery, New York, USA

Looking out / Looking in-Art Show 2, East Quad Art Gallery, University of Michigan, USA

Exit, Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK

Our Chinese Friends, Bauhaus, Weimar, Germany

1999

Don't be Afraid to Make Mistakes, ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai (Solo)

Fortune Global Forum Contemporary Art Exhibit, Jinmao Podium Bldg. Shanghai

48th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale-APERTO over ALL, Venice, Italy

The 14th International Asian Art Exhibition, Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan

International Photography Biennale, Mexico City, Mexico

Cities on the Move 4, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark

Cities on the Move 5, Hayward Gallery, London, UK

Cities on the Move 6, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland

BM99, Bienal da Maya, Maya Art Center, Portugal

1998

Two Contemporary Artists from China-Geng Jianyi, Zhou Tiehai, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (Solo)

Beyond the Borderline, Galerie Bernhard Schindler, Bern, Switzerland, (Solo)

Un/Limited Space (4) - The Shower, German Consulate, Shanghai (Solo)

Zhou Tiehai, Kunsthal Rotterdam, The Netherlands (Solo)        

Asia City, The Photographers' Gallery and Asia House, London, U.K.

Modern Culture's Fame, Modern Culture Communications, Sydney, Australia

Traffic Jam #1, Billboard, Buro Friedrich, Berlin, Germany

Medialization, Edsvik konst och Kultur, Sollentuna, Sweden

Between the Sky & the Earth, Feng Pinshan Museum, HK University, Hong Kong

Brushholder Value, Westfalischer Kunstverein, Muenster, Germany

Medialization, Eesti Kunstimuuseum, Sweden

Jiangnan-Modern and Contemporary Art form South of the Yangzi River, Grunt Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

1997

Promenade in Asia, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Another Long March-Chinese Conceptual Art in the nineties, Chasse Kazerne, Fundament Foundation, Breda, The Netherlands

Cities on the Move 1-Exhibition of Asian art, Secession, Vienna, Austria

Cities on the Move 2, CAPC, Musee d' Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France

Cities on the Move 3, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, NewYork, USA

1996

Too Materialistic, Too Spiritualized, CIFA Gallery, Beijing (Solo)

Shanghai Fax: Let's Talk about Money-International Fax Art Exhibition, Shanghai Huashan Professional School of Art Gallery, Shanghai

In the Name of Art - Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Liu Hai Su Art Museum, Shanghai

1995

Ape, Huashan Art School, Shanghai

1986

"M"-Performance & Conceptual Art Exhibition, Hongkou District Cultural Centre, Shanghai

Critical Action, Fudan University, Shanghai

1984

Students Exhibition, Fine Art School of Shanghai University, Shanghai