TAI Xiangzhou Chinese, b. 1968
TAI Xiangzhou (b. 1968 in Yinchuan, China) studied calligraphy during his childhood with masters HU Gongshi and WANG Wenjun. He further pursued the study of Chinese traditional culture with the prominent mentor FENG Qiyong. From 1999 to 2001, he attended the Media Design School in Auckland, New Zealand and in 2012, he obtained his doctoral degree from the Department of Painting at the Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He currently lives and works in Beijing, China.
TAI has long concentrated on rejuvenating the idealistic forms of traditional Chinese landscape painting. His artworks are largely based on his artistic ideologies of the monumental, classicizing landscapes that envelop the vast scope of contemporary human knowledge and experience. His recent works expand his perspective of art creation into cosmology, astrology, and how they intertwine with the aesthetics of painting.
TAI has exhibited widely internationally including solo and group exhibitions in the U.S. at Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY; Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT; Cantor Arts Center, Stanford, CA; and in China and abroad at Suzhou Museum, Suzhou; Tsinghua University Art Museum, Beijing; National Art Museum of China, Beijing; Today Art Museum, Beijing; Sharjah Calligraphy Museum, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates; Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice, Italy; among many others. He has attended several art fairs including Art Basel Miami Beach; Art Basel Hong Kong; and TEFAF, MECC, Maastricht, Netherlands.
TAI’s work is in the collections of internationally renowned art museums and academic institutions Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY; Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT; Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ; Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Tsinghua University Art Museum, Beijing, China; Arthur M. Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology at Peking University, Beijing, China; among many others.
