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Zhou Tianya ,CAA,NWS.

Zhou Tianya is a member of China Artists Association and a Signature Member of National Watercolor Society (USA), he studied art at the Hubei Institute of Fine Art in Wuhan, and taught watercolor and was Chair of the Art Department at Jingchu Academy of Technology in Hubei Prov.. Tianya is born in 1973,As a watercolorist and art educator, editor .he currently lives in Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, China with his wife and daughter. His works can be found in many public and private collections in China, USA and France including The National Art Museum of China in Beijing, Zhengzhou Museum of Art in Henan Prov., Hubei Museum of Art in Wuhan, Guanlan Museum of Art in Shenzhen, Jack Richeson & Co. in USA.

Zhou has participated in more than 150 solo and group exhibitions and won more than 50 awards for his paintings both in China and abroad, including the Bronze Medal Award of the 10th National fine art exhibition of the Ministry of Culture of the P. R. China and China Artists Association. He also won one of major prize" Jack Richeson & Co. Purchase Award" in the 89th Annual Juried Exhibition of National Watercolor Society, the 1st Place Award in the Watercolor Art Society-Houston's 32nd International Exhibition and the 2nd Place in the VII Vina del Mar Watercolor International Biennial in Chile...

His paintings and art articles have been featured in numerous publications, including Watercolor Artist, Splash 11-12, International Artists (Australia), Art Magazine (China),The Artist Magazine (U.K.), Takungpao (Hong Kong) and he is the author of The Case study of Chinese Contemporary Famous Watercolorists, published by Beijing Art & Design Publishing House in 2010.For more information visit www.zhoutianya.com ,contact his at ztianya@126.com.

Zhou Tianya's Statement

I believe that style is the silhouette of an artist, which cannot be seen by the artist himself. In spite of the fact that I live in one of the most westernized modern cities neighboring Hong Kong and a direct product of Chinese economic reform of the past 30 years, I am still very much a traditional realist with a native heart and a blind eye to the material world that surrounds me. My subjects come mostly from the remote and under-developed native villages and ethnic minority regions, where the native life style and traditions are hanging in a delicate and tentative balance with over development and modernization, which insatiably engulf anything in its way. It is saddening to see the process of destruction of the traditional life style and of its assimilation into the industrial civilization. What I try to record with my beloved watercolor medium today will become the reminiscences of the future.

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For more information visit www.zhoutianya.com ,contact his at ztianya@126.com.


Shenzhen city, Guangdong province,P.R.China

周天涯，水彩画家，中国美术家协会会员，美国全国水彩画协会署名会员。

来自中国广东省深圳市