周光真's Page

Where are you located? 你的居住地區？

San Jose, California

Art medium or relation 藝術體裁或联系：

Sculpture雕塑, Curating策展, Other其他

About Me (bio) 個人簡曆:

周光真 简历
周光真，联合国教科文组织国际陶艺协会会员，美国国家陶瓷艺术教育协会会员，加州陶瓷与玻璃艺术家协会会员,美国中华陶艺有限公司总经理,大地陶艺中心主持人, 美国中华陶瓷艺术学会创办人,Chinese Clay Art电子月刊/英文版主编。

他1953年出生于上海,1981年上海静安区业余大学中文专业,1979-1989年曾在上海长宁区工艺美术厂任美术设计,1989年赴美留学，他先后获明尼苏达大学德鲁斯分校硕士，加州圣荷西州立大学硕士。他曾在中国和美国等地举办过多次个人展览，他的作品曾入选“泰斗陶艺展”，“加州－新西兰陶艺交流展”，“奥勒冈全美陶泥展”等全美和国际性竞赛展览，并被明尼苏达特威特美术馆，AT&T等许多单位与个人所收藏，及被收录于美国《最佳陶瓷艺术新作》，《中国当代陶瓷艺术》等书。

自1989年起，他有50多篇论文发表在中国大陆的《中国美术报》，《装饰》，《江苏画刊》，台湾的《雄狮美术》，《艺术家》，《陶艺》以及美国的《Ceramics Monthly》，《NCECA Journal》，著有《今日美国陶泥家》(1998年北京人民美术出版社) 和《中国陶瓷文化旅游手册》。他曾兼任小说集《寻梦北美》 (1999年中国青年出版社)编委会副主任，《世界陶瓷艺术家作品精粹》（2005年上海书画出版社）编委, 他还编导了电视片《世界制壶中心--中国宜兴》”等。他曾多次应邀在美国陶瓷艺术教育协会的年会, 加州陶瓷雕塑研讨会, 圣荷西州立大学，中国北京96中国艺术博览会，上海大学美术学院，景德镇陶瓷学院，中央美术学院，清华大学美术学院和中国美术大学等地举办过幻灯讲座或创作示范。

自1999年起，他先后组织了年度中国陶艺家代表团赴美，参加美国陶瓷艺术教育协会的年会，组织美国陶艺家代表团赴中国交流访问，及举办了诸多中美陶艺交流展览。他还担任过加州三多贝克大学主办的2004，2006和2008三届大鱼小壶国际茶壶竟赛展的评委。周光真还曾于2001年和2005年先后获陶艺工具肌理模板和透气行陶艺工作板专利两项。
Guangzhen Zhou -- Biography
Guangzhen Zhou, born in Shanghai China in 1953, is a ceramic artist and writer, a member of Member of International Academy of Ceramics, member of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Art, member of the Association of California Clay and Glass Artists, the director of ClayGround-a ceramic art studio, Chinese Ceramic Art Council, USA, and Chinese Clay Art Corperation in San Jose, California, and the chief editor of E-News “Chinese Clay Art”.
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 had many solo and group exhibitions in both the United States and China. Also, his work was featured many magazines and books.
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), on Ceramic Monthly and the NCECA Journals. He published a book American Ceramic Artists Today, that is the first Chinese book introduced fifty top American clay artists in 1998, and published Chinese Ceramic Cultrual Sites-A Travlor’s Handbook in 2004. He was the edting committee member of the book of Works by Ceramic Artists from Around the World.

Meanwhile, Mr. Zhou has presented 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, and he was the presenter of 14th California Sculpture Conference at Davis, California.
Since 1999, Mr. Zhou has been led the annual American Ceramic Artists Delegation for the Chinese ceramic tours, and has been led annual Chinese Delegation of Ceramic Artists attended NCECA conference. Also, he orgniazed “the Chinese Contemporary Ceramic Art Exhibition-Denver 2000”, and “American Ceramic Art Works in Shanghai Art Expo 2000”, organized “Yixing International Ceramic Art Symposium 2001”, and organized the Western Ceramic Artists Delegation participated “Foshan Ceramics Expoxtion, China 2002” and International Ceramic Art Conference , Yixing 2005”. He was the juror of Big Fish, Small Pot, International Teapot Conpitition fo r both 2004 and 2006.

Artist's Statement
I believe that an artist should be talented in creating many kinds of things. An art work should have some kind of visual power, surrealistic shock and a sense of humor.

Website 網站:

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Mandarin, English

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