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Zhou GuoZhen
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INTRODUCTION
Born in
Renxian County, Hunan Province in 1931, Zhou Guozhen
graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1954.
He was a member of the council of China Artists
Association, a consultant of the sculpture commission of
China Arts and Crafts Society, the vice chairman of
Jiangxi Sub-society of China Artists Association, the
President of Jiangxi Sculpture Association, Chairman of
Jingdezhen Artists Association, President of Kaolin and
Ceramic Art Society, a member of the judging panel of
China Arts and Crafts Master, a professor and honorary
director of the fine arts department of Jingdezhen
Ceramics Institute of China Light Industry Ministry. He
was awarded the title of Outstanding Sci. & Tech. Person
by China Light Industry Ministry and was chosen as the
outstanding personnel of Jingdezhen in 1991. In the year
of 1992, he was awarded the special subsidy by the State
Council. He is a ceramic artist, a painter and a ceramic
art educator who has been working for over 50 years in
the field of “clay” and “fire”. He has created his
individual vocabulary to express the spirit of the times
concerning the contemporary ceramic art in China. The
“Animal World” has been acclaimed as a sincere
dedication and has given viewers much pleasure. His
ceramic works are also characterized as multiple ways of
expression and various materials. Different techniques
and materials are closely related with different themes
and distinctive personality. He has presented with us
the aesthetics of the oriental mysticism and
contemporary ideas. He had over a dozen of solo
exhibitions in Shanghai Art Museum，China
National Art Museum, Sichuan Art Museum and Hong Kong
Chinese Culture Promotion Center and attended more joint
exhibitions in Macao, Singagore and other cities. His
works have been collected by China Arts and Crafts
museum, Hong Kong Art Gallery and many collectors at
home and abroad．Sichuan
Fine Arts Publishing House and Hong Kong Chinese Culture
Promotion Center published special catalogues of his
works. The international Who’s who centres of the United
States and Great Britain has chosen him as “the
Celebrity of the World". He was awarded “the Medal of
the Century” by the Cambridge World CelebrityCenter Of
Great Britain in 1992.
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