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In this Chinese name, the family name is Zhou.

Zhou Tiehai (Chinese: 周铁海; born 1966) is a contemporary Chinese artist.

Zhou Tiehai has been one of the most important Chinese artists on the international scene in the last few years.

Born in Shanghai.

Born in Shanghai ; Fine arts School of Shanghai University ; First Prize, Contemporary Chinese Art Award ; Lives and works in Shanghai.

It is on precisely this level that Zhou Tiehai's artistic thought can be seen in relation to history and his artistic practice as a means of writing an.

Zhou Tiehai, born in Shanghai in and educated by Russian-trained professors at the city's Fine Arts College.

Trained as a painter in his native Shanghai, Zhou co-founded Shanghai's first international art fair, SH Contemporary, in 2007, assumed the directorship of the Minsheng Art Museum in 2010, and founded West Bund Art & Design in 2014.

Artistic career

Zhou's art work often attempts to satirize much of modern Chinese art. He does not paint his own works, though he earned a M.F.A. from the School of Fine Arts at Shanghai University in 1989.

He was quick to perceive the subtle colonialism that undergirded the Chinese art world of the early 1990s.^[1]

Zhou takes on the role of both artist and patron, as many of his airbrush paintings are rendered by assistants under his supervision.^[2] A typical process for Zhou Tiehai is to conceptualize a work, realize it on the computer, then rely upon the help of assistants to physic