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Zhu Xiaowen

Zhu Xiaowen is a video artist from Shanghai, China and has been studying and working in Germany and USA in recent years. She is a visual poet, social critic and aesthetic researcher. Her primary media are documentary film, experimental video and video installation. It is part of her research process to experiment with different means of visual communication in order to create an open, dynamic, global and yet intimate conversation. Zhu Xiaowen received her BA in Film, TV Production and Media Arts from Tongji University, China in 2008. Currently she is an MFA candidate major in Art Video in Syracuse University, USA. During her undergraduate study, she attended an exchange program in Academy of Art and Design Offenbach in Germany. Her works have been showed in Strozzina Art Space, Sainsbury Center for Visual Arts, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Everson Museum of Art, Shanghai eArts Festival, Toronto Urban Film Festival, DOK Munich, Van Abbemuseum, Stuttgart Filmwinter and etc.