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Vera Yijun Zhou is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher, and publisher whose work is focused on the production and circulation of images in the new media environment. Her work and research deconstruct and translate the symbolic language created by conceptual theories by documenting and analyzing individuals’ narratives. Vera was born and raised in China in the early page of its globalization and moved to the Netherlands at the onset of the pandemic. Her work follows and reflects the multiple social contradictions of the post-globalization era she is experiencing, she uses the consumption and circulation of images as a metaphor to capture the alienated reality within and underlying images of neoliberalism, identity politics, and censorship surveillance.

周怡君
是一位视觉艺术从业者，设计师和出版人，现居荷兰。作为基于视觉的跨学科艺术家和研究者，她关注新媒体环境中图像的生产和传播。作品和研究通过个人叙事来解构和翻译了概念理论所创造的符号语言。周怡君成长于中国，在疫情前期搬到并定居于荷兰。周怡君的创作多关注并反映了她所经历的后全球化时代的多重社会矛盾，她以图像的消费和传播为隐喻，捕捉新自由主义、身份政治和审查监视图像中及其背后的异化现实。

• 2013-2017 Bachelor of Visual Communication Design at Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China
• 2020-2022 Master of Photography & Society at the Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague, The Netherlands

• 2025 (upcoming)   Where the Sea is, The 7th Overseas Chinese Artists Exhibition; Group exhibition; He Xiangning Art Museum; Guangdong, CN.

• 2025 Living in Limbo; Solo Exhibition; Verhalenhuis Belvédère; Rotterdam,  the NL.

• 2025 Into the Field, Sailor’s project; Group exhibition; TANK Shanghai Art Center; Shanghai, China.

• 2025 How Asians Spend the Night Before Dawn; Granta Magazine; Photography consulting & publish; London, U.K.
  
• 2024 Dummy Academy; public event; JIAZAZHI Press; Ningbo, CN.
  
• 2024 Living in Limbo, An Absent Stamboom dummy launch; public event; Verhalenhuis Belvédère; Rotterdam, the NL.
  
• 2023 - 2024 Verankerd!?; Group exhibition event presentation; Maritiem Museum; Rotterdam, the NL
  
• 2023 HHÖØMMÈĘ; initiative of the group show; CHAxARTxRTM; Rotterdam, the NL
  
• 2023 Self Life, Solo show of Vera Yijun Zhou; CHA x ART x AMS; Amsterdam, NL
  
• 2022 Photography +, Photowork London; Online exhibition; London, U.K.
  
• 2021 Witness Evidence; group show; He Duoling Art Museum, Chengdu, China
  
• 2021 US: There, There; group show; Stroom Den Haag, NL
  
• 2021 ROOTS Film Festival; film festival; Den Haag, NL
  
• 2020 The 12th Three Shadows Photography Award (TSPA) Exhibition; group show; Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Beijing
  
• 2020 The 12th Three Shadows Photography Award (TSPA) Exhibition; group show; Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Xiamen