JOE ZIJIAN ZHOU





(he/him/his)
an artist.




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Current Academic Positions
lecturing and teaching in Transmedia Art, at Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts, China; Coordinator and Academic Interpretor for the international course and disciplinary developing projects.


Exhibitions and Projects

2025
From Allegory to Algorithm, part of China Pulse, Jimei Arles International Photo Festival, Xiamen, China

2024
Symbiosis, XAFA International Public Art Workshop and Conference, Xi’an, China, coordinator and academic interpretor

2023 Digital Avatar Photographing of Mogao Cave, China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, Dunghuang, China

2022
London Offprint, Tate Mordern, London, UK
After the Waiting Room, Copeland Gallery, London, UK
The Annual Photography Programme Publication, Royal College of Art, London, UK

2021
At Odds, Syrup Art Space, Beijing, China (Solo)
Undergo Pain. Release., #windows 178, Greenwitch, London, UK, cooperating with Sean Raggett
Experimental Relationship: In Conversation with Pixy Liao, the Event at Royal College of Art, London, UK, seminar host

2020
Southwark Park Galleries 36th Annual, Southwark Park Galleries, London, UK
Inter-, the College-wide Publication of Artists, Royal College of Art, London, co-designer

2018
The 18th Photography Art Exhibition of Shaanxi Province, Liangbaolou Art Museum, Xi’an, SN, PRC

2017
Dream Collectors, Photography Gallery of Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, OH, USA



Curations

2025
Transparent Shelter: How Do We Confront the Now, Ars Electronica Festival 2025, Linz, Austria, co-curator

2024
The Cloud of Condensation 2.0: Diversity and Order, Three Shadow Photography Art Center, Beijing, China, curator

2023
Emerging Artists Collection, Enjoy-Art Museum, London, UK, curator

2021
The Condensation of A Cloud, Hoxton Gallery, London, UK, curator and promoter


Lectures and Workshops Interpreting


2023
The Filling, by Prinzpod, DOTA International Lectures Season, Xi’an
Ontology, Environment and Others, by Sarah Hager, DOTA International Lectures Season, Xi’an

2024
Formal Experiments in Media Art as a Way to See the World Anew, by Time Gates, DOTA Transmedia Art International Academic Season, Xi’an
Post-digital Intervention in Urban Spaces, by Alexis Dworsky, XAFA International Public Art Workshop, Xi’an

2025
Cybernetics of the Sacred, by Gary Hill, XAFA College-wide Lecture, Xi’an
Agency Across Substrates: from Digital Interfaces to Living Matter, by Harpreet Sareen DOTA International Academic Perspective Lecture Series, Xi’an

Conference and Symposium

2025
Curating through Questions: Our Approach to the Exhibition, How Do We Confront the ‘Now’, 2025 International Exchange Talk alongside the Ars Electronica Campus Exhibition



Publications

2022
Unfold, Co-publication of Photography Programme at Royal College of Art, London, UK
Unseen Memories in an Album, London Offprint at Tate Modern, Photography Pulication, London, UK

2020
Inter-, College-wide publishing, Co-publication of Artwork Collection at Royal College of Art, London, UK

Press and Coverage

2025
London’s RCA curates the China Pulse show at Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival in China, with its exhibition and wider festivals considering photography as a technology, by Diane Smyth, British Journal of Photography, UK

2024
The Cloud of Condensation 2.0: Diversity and Order, Chip Foto Video, Beijing Prominion Publishing, China




Education

2020-2022
MA Photography, Royal College of Art, London, UK

2019-2020
Gradute Diploma Fine Art, Royal College of Art, London, UK – Distinction

2015-2019
BFA Photography, Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts, Xi’an, China – Outstanding Graduate Awards

2017-2018
BFA Exchange, Photography, Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, OH, USA




Travel Based/ Languages Spoken

Fluent in English and Mandarin.

Learning German...

Based in Xian and Beijing, China at present

Based in London, UK in 2019-2022

Based in Columbus, US in 2017.