ZOOJOOJOURNEY
持续校订的个人档案
艺术和生活轨迹
这条年表把艺术实践、数字产品工作与生活节点并置，呈现它们如何长期互相影响。
内容由ZOOJOO本人审核；部分早期资料来自个人档案与回忆，欢迎补充证据并随时更正。
成长与视觉启蒙
Entered Shanghai Pengpu Middle School
Began spontaneous painting practice in teacher Zhu Jianxin's studio.
Entered Huashan Art School
Studied with He Saibang and Jin Lili, encountering intuitive creation and an open approach to materials.
Entered the Chinese Painting program at Shanghai Normal University
After early resistance to conventional ink painting, turned toward a deeper study of the tradition.
Repeated study visits to the Shanghai Museum
Studied traditional bird-and-flower painting and developed a new relationship with classical aesthetics.
Graduated and began teaching art
Moved into an artist-teacher community and, through Bian Pingshan, met ink mentor Liao Lu.
Joined The9
Entered the game industry as a web and game designer.
数字文化和游戏公司
Released electronic music as ZOOJOO
Participated in Shanghai's early electronic-music and digital-culture scene and was connected with ISMU.
Joined NetEase as lead artist
Worked on the art design of Westward Journey Online and entered the internet game industry.
Joined Electronic Arts as design manager
Supported POGO game and interface design with EA's global development team.
Encountered Horst Janssen's etchings at Shanghai Art Museum
The metallic materiality of the prints prompted a decision to study printmaking systematically.
Joined SEGA as creative section manager
Managed a UI design team and brought game-development experience into product planning.
Co-created the single c.o.r.e.a
Used Suzhou pingtan samples in an early cross-media experiment.
100 Words received first prize from the National Youth Theatre
The artist archive records a Classical Chinese acceptance speech; further public documentation is being collected.
Joined the second Green School annual exhibition at Star Gallery, Beijing
First recorded participation in an art exhibition; works entered private collections.
Studied at Shanghai Peninsula Printmaking Studio
Studied under Lu Zhiping and began sustained printmaking practice.
Printmaking teaching and working session at Shanghai Peninsula Printmaking Studio, 2008. Began participating in Shanghai and French residency projects
Expanded international exchange and prepared for travel in France.
Received third prize at the first Shanghai Copperplate Print Exhibition
The installation Down to Ganling was also shown in Songjiang that year.
Participated in God Save Monaco
Travelled in Paris and southern France and took part in artistic exchange.
Participated in the Sino-French exhibition Hidden Night
Explored site- and context-specific narratives in the digital age.
繁忙的职业和多变的形式
Joined the print exhibition at Shanghai Library's Chinese Cultural Celebrity Manuscript Museum
A work entered the museum's permanent collection; later collaborations continued.
Joined Alipay and began an MFA at China Academy of Art
Worked as a UED specialist while studying printmaking with Yu Hong.
Received second prize at the Mingyuan Young and Mid-career Artist Recommendation Exhibition
The awarded work was the copperplate print Dance.
Presented the solo exhibition Dual Phase at M50 and Zhu Qizhan Art Museum
ZOOJOO's first solo exhibition placed traditional ink and experimental digital art in dialogue.
Participated in the Figurative / Over There Horizon painting and sculpture exhibition
Entered a multigenerational contemporary-art exhibition context.
Participated in Shanghai Art Newcomers at Shanghai Chinese Painting Academy
The exhibition presented 25 young Shanghai artists recommended by journalists.
Yu'e Bao launched
Participated as a web and app designer during a formative moment in Chinese internet finance.
Joined Shanghai Art in Beijing at the National Art Museum of China
Work was presented in a national museum context.
Participated in the Maritime Constellations ink exhibition
Presented experimental ink works linking traditional language and digital translation.
Left Alibaba and joined Ping An Pay
Worked as senior product-planning director on architecture and interaction design.
Selected for the 20th National Print Exhibition
After this national print exhibition, the practice moved toward more diverse methods.
Founded One-Person Museum
Launched a WeChat Official Account and independent art platform focused on experimental writing and marginal artistic states.
Entered the documented China–Sweden print exchange network
Grafik i Väst's annual report listed Zhang Ju as an artist and engineer/designer in the China–Sweden exchange project.
Grafik i Väst 档案 ↗Joined an invited exhibition by the Swedish Printmakers' Association
Began a long-term Sino-Swedish print exchange in Stockholm.
Described as a reverse drifter by Xinmin Evening News
The feature used his work in Hangzhou and art-making in Shanghai to describe drifting as an intellectual and spiritual condition, not only a geographic one.
《新民晚报》原版 PDF ↗Trading Dreams opened at Taobao Maker Festival
A work by Is Art, with ZOOJOO as a participant, brought dream narratives into a public festival context.
Trading Dreams store at Liulang Wenying, Hangzhou, 2016 Dream Beast became a catalyst for a dream-exchange project
Yang Wansha recalled that many of ZOOJOO's works resonated with her dreams; the encounter contributed to the subsequent exchange and exhibition of dreams.
相关报道 ↗Selected for the main exhibition of the Łódź Print Biennale
Print techniques and narrative logic entered a wider international context.
Participated in the third Macao Printmaking Triennial
Continued the expansion of international printmaking exchange.
His daughter was born
A new chapter of family life began.
Curated and performed VJ for LOOP
Coordinated a collaboration between digital art and electronic music.
协议、生成艺术与国际现场
Moved into Han Feng's studio in Zhujiajiao
Shared the studio with Han Feng and met Pang Hailong there.
Joined the Chengxiang Ancient Town art residency in Qingbaijiang, Chengdu
In April 2021, ZOOJOO joined an art residency in Chengxiang Ancient Town, Qingbaijiang, Chengdu, leaving site drawings, moving-image material, and project records.
Project record ↗Spoke at Taobao × Yixi at Alibaba's Taobao City
ZOOJOO spoke about Taobao as a gathering place for designers, independent creators, and people who resist easy categorisation.
The date is confirmed by continuous EXIF timestamps from three original photographs taken at 16:15, 16:18, and 16:20 on 30 June 2021; a public event page has not yet been located.
ZOOJOO speaking at Taobao × Yixi, Alibaba Taobao City, 30 June 2021. Photograph from the artist's archive. Participated in De-Site at HOW Art Museum
Kungfu Hero and CosmoChamber NFT works entered the exhibition context.
Spoke at the Asian Art Finance Forum
The public report recorded ZOOJOO's view that native NFT art should engage blockchain technology and smart contracts rather than merely upload an existing image.
论坛记录 ↗Became product consultant and UED director for Nervos CKB
Worked on NFT market operations and crypto-art exhibition collaborations.
Wuxi Huayiwood Digital Art Exhibition
The ZOOJOO installation was activated in the exhibition space together with dancers, creating a shared scene across body, sculpture, projection, and architecture.
ZOOJOO装置与舞者同台，无锡华莱坞数字艺术展，2022 Produced Chinese landform imagery for a Xinhua News Agency AI programme
Produced generative imagery of different Chinese landforms and explored the control of ink-wash textures and panoramic terrain in AI-generated images.
Project record ↗Joined the third Something Else Biennale in Cairo
Mangrove Seed Drifting, with Hu Quanling's participation, and ZOOJOO's independent work Pink Explosion were shown at the Saladin Citadel.
Participated in ARTAB at the Hong Kong Culture Expo
Presented Pink Explosion.
Joined Next Century 2 in western Sweden
Grafik i Väst recorded work at the Lithographic Academy in Tidaholm and an early encounter with stone lithography.
瑞典项目通讯 ↗Participated in the third Jinan International Biennale
Presented CosmoChamber through video and drawings. The work was co-created by ZOOJOO, AMOTOR, TONG, and GUXIANG, with technical support from Double Lab.
Participated in ART MARKET 2025 at Ginza Tsutaya Books, Tokyo
Presented a physical woodblock realization of a digital artwork.
Second visit to Paris and IDEM Print Studio
Visited IDEM Print Studio in Paris and encountered a David Lynch paper work during the studio visit.
David Lynch work documented during ZOOJOO's second visit to Paris and IDEM Print Studio, 2025. This is a studio visit record, not a work by ZOOJOO. Joined Silicon-Based: New Creators in Beijing
Presented at Tang Contemporary Art's Beijing 2nd Space from 28 June to 13 August 2025. Curated by Gu Zhenqing with Zhu Zijie as assistant curator, the group exhibition brought together digital works by 51 artists and collectives; Ocula's published participant list includes ZOOJOO.
Ocula exhibition record ↗Joined Silicon-Based: New Creators in Hanover
Presented CosmoChamber and Mangrove Seed Drifting in a discussion of life forms in the digital age.
Invited to work at Longest Night studio in Gothenburg, Sweden
Completed the artist's book and screenprinted poster The Mouse Bride.
Group portrait during the working period at Longest Night studio, Gothenburg, Sweden Ruined-two souls shown in the Next Century archive
Grafik i Väst listed Zhang Ju 'ZooJoo' with the work Ruined-two souls, stone lithography and collage.
Grafik i Väst 通讯 ↗Joined a group exhibition at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland
Presented CosmoChamber in a discussion of creative agency.
Participated in the 20th anniversary exhibition of Xuhui Art Museum
Presented the screenprint Götheborg and returned to the material origins of printmaking.
Exterior view of the Xuhui Art Museum 20th anniversary exhibition, 2025 Participated in the group exhibition section of Edirne Bienali, Türkiye
Presented CosmoChamber and completed three site-responsive metadata works.
Served as operations director for the Xinhua News Agency Shanghai Branch Intangible Cultural Heritage World Reception Hall project
From May to September 2026, ZOOJOO participated in the project as operations director; this was a project operations role rather than an artwork credit.
Project record ↗
Intangible Cultural Heritage World Reception Hall project site, Shanghai, 2026 Work shown in Sweden at This year's offset printing seminar exhibition
The work was included in This year's offset printing seminar exhibition in Sweden. Dudu mailed the work to Sweden, and ERIC assisted with presenting it in the exhibition.
ZOOJOO work documented at This year's offset printing seminar exhibition, Sweden, 2026.