ARTIST BIO:

Wei Zhou is a multimedia artist, a Ph.D. researcher at University of Reading working on her thesis: Seeking for emotional Asylum: immigrants’ melody in the space of Cinema.

Her work engages with video making, amateur film archives, family photographs, sound design and others. Many of her works try to explore the present meaning of history, and how the past is stored and transformed into intimate memory and collective memory. And what conversations she as an artist can initiate with that? It is important for her to ask these questions as a long-time expatriate, a daughter of Chinese parents and a filmmaker who has the freedom to travel in between reality and fiction. She attempts to establish a conscious relationship to herself,  her place of birth, mother language and the state of all of the above, in the process of writing, performing, and art making.
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Education:

2017 - 2019.  MA, Royal College of Art (RCA), London
                       Public Sphere - Contemporary Art Practice(Distinction)
                       Full Scholarship (2 years), CSC

2012 - 2016. 
BA, Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), Beijing

                       Jewellery Design (2014.2-2016.6)
                       Visual Communication Design (9.2012-1.2014)


Group Exhibitions:

2021-2022    “H Is for Hostile Environment”
                         Two short films are selected, multiple locations 
                         Commissioned by Satellite Film,
                         Project director/curator Edwin Mingward  
                         Presented by Chisenhall gallery

06/2020       "UNCONFERENCE"
                        PhD conference, exhibition, Online

07/2019          MA Degree Show, Royal College of Art, London

03/2019          FTHoTV,
                         Flat-Time House, London

07/2018          "Cooked and Raw",
                         The Independents Biennial, Liverpool

04/2018          "States of Public",
                         FACT, Liverpool

01/2018           Work in Progress Show,
                         Royal College of Art, London


10/2016          "A Journey of a Thousand Miles",
                         Hong Miao Gallery, Beijing


09/2016         "Triple Parade Contemporary Art",
                         Tianjin and Beijing


08/2016          Mazee Graduate Show,
                         Marzee Galarie, Netherlands


07/2016           Ubi Gallery Topyoung 2016 Contemporary Exhibition,
                         Ubi Gallery, Beijing

06/2016          Hint @ CAFA, Central Acadamy of Fine Arts, Beijing


04/2016          Cranbrook&CAFA, Marzee Galari, Natherlands


03/2016         "Identity", The Danish Cultural Institution, Beijing
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Collected work: HINT Collected by Marzee Galarie, Netherlands; CODA Museum, Netherlands; Teng Fei, Beijing.


Award / Bursaries:
2017-2019 2-year MA at RCA, Bursary sponsored by CSC
08/2016 Marzee Art- Graduate Prize 2016, Netherlands
06/2016 Excellent Graduate Project, CAFA, Beijing
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Writing/ Publication:
RCA Online Archive, A Voice from the Background: Ventriloquism of Culture, CHS Distinction Dissertations, Royal College of Art, London