1982 Born in Mudanjiang, Heilongjiang Province

2007 Graduated from the Chinese Traditional Paintings Department of Peoples Liberation Army Academy of Arts

with a bachelor's degree

2014 Graduated from the Chinese Painting Department of the Central Academy of Fine Arts with a master's degree

Currently works and lives in Beijing

GROUP EXHIBITION

2013 The Tenth China Art Festival - Special Exhibition of Comprehensive Material Painting Jinan Art Museum

| Shandong

2011 Chinese Memory Comprehensive - Fine Arts Works Exhibition for 100th Anniversary of the Revolution of

1911 National Art Museum of China | Beijing

2009 Receiving by Heart - Graduate Works Exhibition of Hu Wei Studio of the Central Academy of Fine Arts

China National Academy of Paintings Museum | Beijing

2009 The 11th National Fine Arts Exhibition National Art Museum of China | Beijing

Zhou Mo: In this series of works, I mainly focus on the "blank " in Chinese paintings. Traditionally, the "blank" has had a shaping function in ar tistic conception, but in contemporar y times, its function is not limited to expressing emptiness and nothingness but has expanded to showing holistic atmosphere and symbo lically representing Chinese culture. Unlike minimalism, the oriental cultural background of the blank fills the work with poetic sense, conveying an emotional rather than rational expression from the concrete to the abstract. Meanwhile, the blank in my works is also different from the pure color ethos ofminimalism; instead, it has a fluidity of colors in a certain ambiguity and density. In contrast to pure white, it allows t he audience to have an unlimited imagination. Such is the reason why I always adopt the blank in my paintings.