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Zhu Tian (born 1982, China) is an artist living and working in London.

Education
China born, London-based artist Zhu Tian received an MA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art in London, the UK (2014), an MA in Sound Design from Bournemouth University in Bournemouth, the UK (2007), and a BA in Economics from the University of Nottingham in Nottingham, the UK (2006).

Career
Zhu is a multi-disciplinary artist who subverts the everyday and undermines the expected. Moving effortlessly from object intervention to digital to performance to set piece installation, she presents works embodying discourse around the theme of power relations, freedom and individualism. Concerned by the automated routines of robotic individuals in today’s society, Zhu creates pieces which she describes as "hiccups - to interrupt and disturb." Her work combines light humour with a sharp sense of critique, and is known for being ‘compelling and unsettling’.

Zhu has exhibited internationally at such venues as the V&A Museum in London, the UK and the Centraal Museum in Utrecht, Netherlands. She was the winner of the Catlin Art Prize (UK) in 2015, the Broomhill National Sculpture Prize (UK) in 2014, and was selected as the Emerging Sound Artist in the UK in 2009.

One of Zhu's works, Babe, gained notoriety in 2014 after the Daily Mail asked if they are "the world's UGLIEST shoes?"

Awards
In 2015, Zhu won the Catlin Prize for her 'unsettling' works