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Guangzhen
"Po" Zhou -- Biography
Guangzhen "Po" Zhou, born in Shanghai China in 1953, is a ceramic artist and writer, director of the Chinese Ceramic Art Council, USA, owner of the Clayground, a ceramic school in San Jose, California, and special reporter of "Ceramic Art" magazine in Taiwan.
Came to the United State in 1989, Mr. Zhou received his Master of Arts from the University of Minnesota-Duluth and his Master of Fine Arts degree from San Jose State University, San Jose, California.
He has held many solo exhibitions in the United States. His works were selected Monarch National Ceramic Competition, and collected by Tweed Museum of Art, Minnesota, AT&T Multi-Lingual Center and d. p. Fong Art Gallery, San Jose, California, and many private collectors. Also, his work was featured in a book, "The Best of New Ceramic Art." (Hand Books, Inc. U. S. A.), and won an Honorable Mention Award of the 3rd Annual Silver hawk Fine Crafts Internet Competition.
Since 1992, Mr. Zhou has had over fifty articles published in both Chinese and English in art magazines, such as Jiangsu Art Monthly, Fine Arts in China and Decorative Arts (Mainland China) and Artist, and Ceramic Art magazines (Taiwan) and the NCECA Journal (1999 and 2000). Also, he has published an autobiography on Ceramic Monthly (Sept. 1992). In 1998, he published a book American Ceramic Artists Today, that is the first Chinese book introduced fifty top American clay artists.
Meanwhile, Mr. Zhou has presented slide lectures that introduced "American contemporary ceramic arts" in '96 China Art Expo. Beijing, Yixing Ceramic Artists' Association, Shanghai University-Fine Art College, Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute, Central Academy of Fine Arts-Beijing, Central Academy of Arts and Design-Beijing, China National Academy of Fine Arts-Hangzhou.
Since 1999, Mr. Zhou has been organizing the American Ceramic Artists Delegation for the Chinese ceramics cultural tour and exchanges every year.
1999, he organized the first Chinese Delegation of Ceramic Artists attended NCECA conference at Columbus, Ohio, and presented slides lecture "Chinese Contemporary Ceramics" in NCECA, 2000.
2000, Mr. Zhou organized "the Chinese Contemporary Ceramic Art Exhibition-Denver 2000", and "American Ceramic Art Works in Shanghai Art Expo 2000".
2001, Mr. Zhou invented and patented a new clay tool called "Plastic Texture Mats" were made in China and distributed international wide.
2001 and 2002, he organized "Yixing International Ceramic Art Symposium 2001", and organized the Ceramic Artists Delegation of America and Italy, participated "Foshan Ceramics Exposition, China 2002".
2002, Mr. Zhou published his second book Chinese Ceramic Culture - A Traveler's Handbook in both English and Chinese, by Wu-Shing Publishing House, Ltd. Taiwan.
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