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Zhao Shuo

ARTIST BIO

(b. 1980, Xi'an, CHINA)

Zhao Shuo is currently based in Shanghai. His oil paintings are solidly realistic and have reflective attitude. Through his art he expresses a general concern now about modern China. His “Our Lives Will Become Better" is sociologically significant.

Through his strong images he creates narratives that speak to the overlap of power and information. Throughout his visual narratives he embeds the controversy between painting and consciousness. His art is a clever and complex metaphor on China’s contemporary social situation and political thought, as well as the public’s perception and emotional response.

China’s burgeoning tourist industry is quite unparalleled in the world. The new consumer culture advocates traveling as an important activity associated with modernity. Internal commercial tourism in China is made possible through the wealth of a growing middle class eager to exercise their new power to spend and to consume. The government’s relaxing of controls over individual mobility has also greatly encouraged travel.

Zhao Shuo adopts a dramatic perspective among people in his narratives. Some figures’ physical details stand out as their heads and bodies are significantly larger than those around them. Zhao’s narratives remind one of the crowded realty of many tourist spots in China, where famous sites are often obscured.

EDUCATION

Central Academy of Fine Arts, 2007
Pudong Zhoupu Art Gallery, Deputy Director
Ludong University, Visiting Professor

EXHIBITIONS

SOLO EXHIBITION

2014	“Solstice ”, Shanghai Harbor Art Museum, CHINA
2013	Shanghai Moganshan set up studio, CHINA “Ukiyo”, FEEL Korea Art Center, SOUTH KOREA
2009	“Portrait”, Block Meiji, Central District, Tokyo, JAPAN “The Wedding in the Paradise”, Gwangju, SOUTH KOREA
2008	“The Wedding”, 798 Art Center, Beijing, CHINA “An American Dream”, Shangliu Space, Beijing, CHINA
2003	“Portrait”, Tokyo, JAPAN

GROUP EXHIBITION

2017	Art Stage Singapore 2017, Wellington Gallery, SINGAPORE
2016	“Sea 70”, Shanghai Young Artists Invitational Exhibition, Shanghai Chinese Art Palace, Shanghai, CHINA
2015	“Shanghai Drift”, Shanghai Young Artists Invitational Exhibition, Shanghai China Art Palace, Shanghai, CHINA
2014	“The Cross – Strait Contemporary Art Invitational Exhibition”, Shanghai Zhoupu Art Gallery, CHINA
2013	Shanghai International Contemporary Art Invitation Exhibition, Shanghai Lujiazui Art Museum, CHINA
2012	New Asia International Exhibition, Seoul, SOUTH KOREA
2011	Shanghai International Art Invitational Exhibition, Putong Zhoupu Art Gallery, CHINA
2010	Moganshan Establishment Art Studio, Shanghai, CHINA
2009	12th Beijing International Art Exhibition. Beijing, CHINA China Drive 2009 International Sculpture Yearbook Exhibition, CHINA 19th INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL OF HUMOR AND SATIRE IN THE ARTS, Gabrovo, BULGARIA The Italian Invitation Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, ITALY Chinese Contemporary Art Recommendation Exhibition, Jan Van Der Togt Museum, Amsterdam, HOLLAND
2008	“Pass through”, Exchange Exhibition of Chinese and Korea Contemporary Art, Beijing 798 Art Center, Beijing, CHINA Shanghai Contemporary Art Exhibition - International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Shanghai, CHINA Post "Touch & Action", Songzhuang Phenomenon Exhibition, ShangShang Museum, CHINA "I Love Songzhuang", Songzhuang Art Festival Theme Exhibition, Roundabout Art Unit, CHINA “Terrifying Waves”, Yang Art Space, SINGAPORE 3rd Duolun Museum Youth Art Exhibition, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, CHINA May 4th Youth Art Festival, Beijing Hongwan Art Center, Beijing, CHINA
2007	Songzhuang Contemporary Art Exhibition Tour, Huan Tie Time Art Museum, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shandong Oriental Modern Art Museum, and Shenyang Art Museum, CHINA 10th Beijing International Art Exhibition, Beijing Guomao Exhibition Center, Beijing, CHINA
2005	Silk Road Art Exhibition, Shanghai, CHINA Spring Art Salon, Shanghai, CHINA
2004	Established Shanghai aotu Artist Alliance, CHINA Sino-French Cultural Exchange Exhibition, Paris, FRANCE
2003	China's Western Region Art Exhibition, Xi'an International Exhibition Center, Xi'an, CHINA
2002	Sino-Japanese Art Exhibition, Tokyo, JAPAN Zhao Shuo Portrait Gallery Exhibition, Tokyo, JAPAN
2001	Gained the Gold Award in 1st Oil Painting Portrait Exhibition in Shaanxi Province, Shaanxi Province Museum, Xi'an, CHINA

COLLECTIONS

Wellington Gallery, Hong Kong

UBS; Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art (China); Beijing Rainbow Bay Art Gallery (China); REWE Group (Germany); Crédit Agricole (France); Hon Hai Precision Industry Co Ltd (Taiwan); Museum House of Humor & Satire, (Bulgaria); Schoeni Art Gallery (Hong Kong); Museum Jan van der Togt (Amsterdam); South Korea Feel Gallery (Seoul)