Zhou Xiaohu was born in Changzhou, China, in 1960 and graduated from the Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts. Now he lives and works in Shanghai. Zhou began using computers as an artistic tool in 1998. As one of China’s most well-known most prolific contemporary artists, he specializes in inducing confusion and bafflement, making viewers question the evidence of their senses and their assumptions about the so-called ‘facts’.

He has since experimented with stop-frame video animation, video installation and computer-
gaming software, whereby the interlayering of images between moving pictures and real objects has become his signature style. Working across performance, photography, installation,
sculpture, video, and animation, Zhou’s practice reflects the documentation of history in a digital age.

The work of Zhou Xiaohu has been exhibited at MoMA, New York, USA; Tate Liverpool; Kunst
Museum Bern, Switzerland; and the International Center of Photography, New York, USA and the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Wien, Austria. He has participated Shanghai
Biennale; Seville International Art Biennale in 2004; Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary
Art,Australia in 2006; The Real Thing, Tate Liverpool in 2007; Not Soul For Sale, Tate Modern
Turbine Hall in 2010; and the 8th Gwangju Biennial,Korea in 2010. Zhou Xiaohu solo exhibition at Ethan Cohen Gallery in New York in 2005, and a solo exhibition at Walsh Gallery in Chicago in 2008;Word Chain solo show was at the Long March Art Space in Beijing in 2010;Xiase was solo show at Berlin MOMENTUM in 2015,and in 2016 he launched his solo exhibition Chimera at Minsheng Art Museum in Shanghai;Me & Beuys•Zhou Xiaohu at Hao Art Museum,Shanghai in 2019. Zhou Xiaohu was awarded the CCAA Award in 2002 and 2006; and won the gold award in the experimental video category in the 36th Houston international film festival; and 2014 has been awarded a DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program.