Tai Xiangzhou 秦祥洲 (b. 1968)

While he only seriously started pursuing art and design in his 30s, Tai Xiangzhou was already exposed to calligraphy at seven years old. In 2001, he graduated from the the Media Design School in Auckland and had a successful career in media design. His formal training in art would begin in 2005, first in Chinese landscape paintings and then more modern styles under leading contemporary artist Liu Dan. In 2006, inspired by a famous astrologer, Tai started viewing landscapes from an astrological perspective. He pursued further studies at Tsinghua University in Beijing and received a PhD from its Academy of Arts and Design in 2012.

Tai’s Wondrous Peaks and Multitudinous Gully, which was previously part of The Origo Collection, is now owned by ECKART ASIA.

His paintings are in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Seattle Art Museum, the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, The Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M Sackler Gallery in Washington D.C., the Arthur M. Sackler Museum at Harvard University in Massachusetts, the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, the Beijing University, Zhonghua Book Company and Arthur M. Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology in Beijing, and the Exhibition Gallery of Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau in Macau.

Tai Xiangzhou: Celestial Phenomenon – The supreme good is like water, 2022; 37cm × 204cm