Yi Zhou is a young Chinese artist, who has lived in Rome from the age of ten and studied between London and Paris with a degree in Political Science and Economics.
She creates large multimedia installation artworks that blend film, digital animation, photography, sculpture, painting, drawing, and contemporary music composition. Her works explore the realm of hyper-realism and neo-realism: on one hand, she derives visual and tangible forms from the imagination and dreams, while on the other hand, she gives a surreal aspect to nature itself.
Her work is a complex synthesis of imagination, literature, mythology, philosophy and new technology and is impregnated with Chinese and Mediterranean culture. Her works introduce the disturbing magic of both virtual and supernatural characters and landscapes as well as the ephemeral reality of life, love, and death while using the symbolic language of the unconscious.
Blending ancient expressive methods, such as sculpture in marble and 35mm film, with extremely technologically advanced ones, such as 3D animation, Yi Zhou presents a vision of life, transcending both time and space, inflected with irony and wit.
Yi Zhou has held solo exhibitions at the Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont, Paris, and live art performances at Deitch Projects, New York.
Recently, Yi Zhou opened a solo exhibition entitled : “Three Cantos, Prefiguration: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso,” at the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence (in the rooms Studiolo di Francesco I, Cappella di Eleonora di Toledo, and Terrazzo di Saturno), together with a public projection and performance on Piazza della Signoria. For the first time, she presented one of her videos, «Avatars», at the Venice International Film Festival in September 2007. In January 2008, her third animation video,
«Paradise», was selected for official competition at the Sundance film festival. In April 2008, Yi Zhou completed a public artwork on Place Vendôme entitled «1280 Towers», together with Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont and Comité Vendôme, accompanied by a solo exhibition at the Galerie Jérôme de Noirmont in Paris.


Living between Paris and Hong Kong, Yi Zhou has recently participated to the Third Guangzhou Triennial. She is currently participating to Chicago Cultural Center’s group exhibition “The Big World : Recent Art from China” as well as a group exhibition in Paris at Maison Rouge starting on May 28th.

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  “Paradise” by Yi Zhou is part of Sundance film festival 2008 in the short film competition section. "Paradise", a video by Yi Zhou, is part of the official competition for short films at sundance film festival 2008. It depicts a fantastical paradise landscape that ...