Tianli Zu
Tianli Zu
1963 Born in Beijing
1987 Bachelor of Fine Arts, China Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA)
2010 Master of Fine Arts, Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney
2014 Doctor of Philosophy, Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney
Present Lives and works in Sydney
Awards
2015 Edmund, your Twomblys are behind you. Archibald prize 2015 – Finalist
2015 Shelter of Shadows, North Sydney Art Prize – Finalist and Encouragement Award
2013 Nuwa is Pregnant II, North Sydney Art Prize – Finalist
2013 Nuwa is Pregnant II, Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre – Finalist
2012 Nuwa is Pregnant, ‘Works on Paper Prize and Exhibition’, Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne – Merit Award
2011 Up is down, down is up, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art – Emerging Artist Initiative Award
2011 Everything can be seen as a this, Willoughby Sculpture Prize – Finalist
2016 projects and exhibitions
The Ox Lantern – Chinese Zodiac Lantern Exhibition Martin Place, Sydney Commissioned by: City of Sydney
Light projection on the National Library of Australia Enlighten Canberra
Commissioned by: The National Library of Australia and Enlighten Canberra
Solo Exhibitions
2015 “Elemental”, China Cultural Centre in Sydney
2015 “Shadow Maze”, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Gymea
2013 “Shadow Makes This World”, PhD Degree Show, Sydney College of the Arts (SCA), The University of Sydney
2013 “White Shadows-In Possible Worlds”, 4A Centre for contemporary Asian Art, Sydney
2013 “Shadows of Strange Things”,
Art Month Sydney, Rozelle Contemporary Art Precinct (RCAP)
Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney
2012 “Identical Differences”, Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney
2011 “Un-named”, Art Atrium, Sydney
2010 “Infinite Universe”, Chinese Cultural Centre, Sydney
1988 “Dragon Stamp (Year of the Dragon)”, Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of China
Selected Group Exhibitions
2016 “The Senator and Ma”, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
2015 “In Her Shadow Of, ‘Memory Fragments’”, Art Space on The Concourse, Willoughby City Council
2014 “Masks II, ‘Chinese Whispers’”, Goulburn Art Regional Gallery, Sydney
2014 “Openness”, Spot 81, Chippendale
2014 “Mask, ‘I Want to Change the World’”, Art Museum of GAFA, Guangzhou, China
2014 “Nuwa created horses on the sixth day, ‘Crossing Boundaries – A Celebration of Contemporary Asian Australian Art’”, Sydney Town Hall, City of Sydney
2013 “Nuwa is Pregnant II, ‘Snake, Snake, Snake’”, Sydney Chinese New Year Festival, Sydney Town Hall, City of Sydney
2012-3 “A Wonderful World, ‘Carrying Tigers Over Mountains’”,
Permanence Gallery, 798 Art District, Beijing, China
2012 “Nuwa is Pregnant II, ‘Critical Thinking: Research + Art + Culture’”, SCA Graduate School Exhibition, The University of Sydney
2012-5 “Nuwa is Pregnant, ‘Made in China, Australia’”, touring exhibition, Salamanca Arts Centre, Hobart
2012 “A Wonderful World, ‘The Price of War’”, Chinalink Gallery and the University of Sydney Confucius Institute, Sydney
2012 “A Wonderful World, ‘I Am What I Play’”, in association with AAANZ conference and AIAS conference,
National Art School, Sydney
2012 “A Wonderful World, ‘Cinema Alley 2012’”, 4A Animation Project, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney
2012 “‘Breathe’, Sydney Chinese New Year Festival exhibition”, Art Atrium, Sydney
2012 “Nuwa is Pregnant, ‘Paper Now’”, The Incinerator Art Space, Willoughby City Council
2011 “Everything can be seen as a this, ‘Open Call’”, Verge Gallery, The University of Sydney
2011 “Tale, ‘Cinema Alley 2011’”, Selections from the 4A Animation Project, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney
2010 “An In-between-er Binds in Shadow”, MFA Degree Show, SCA, The University of Sydney
2010 “Tale, ‘Comings and Goings: Lai-lai Wang-wang’”, The Inaugural Documentary Exhibition of Chinese-Australian Contemporary Art, Chinalink Gallery, Sydney
Publications (exhibition catalogues)
2015 2015: Collection of Recent Works
2014 Shadow Makes This World (foreword by Colin Rhodes)
2013 White Shadows (with an interview by Luise Guest)
2012 Shadows of Strange Things (with an essay by Nicholas Tsoutas)
2011 Identical Differences
2010 Un-named
