周子曦出生于1970年，目前工作和生活于上海。自1993年开始艺术创作，周子曦的笔触逐步推进到国家与民族创伤、集体的记忆与遗忘、个体的异化生存、当下的事件与危机等；对历史和文学的研究，和对人类苦难的关怀，他的绘画具有深刻的叙事性，并在画面中拓展出时间与空间、社会与个人、政治与文化、灾难与日常等不同层面，转换视角、穿插渗透。这同时也使作品与作品之间呈现出一种彼此关联、相互补充和映照的关系，发展出一种史诗般的特质。艺术家将自己的创作视如一幢理想建筑，期望这一建筑能贯穿整个人类文明史的悲凉和荒诞。
Born in 1970, Zhou Zixi currently lives and works in Shanghai. Since the beginning of his career in 1993, Zhou’s brushstrokes have progressively evolved to depict national and population’s trauma, collective memory and oblivion, alienation of individuals, as well as contemporary events and crises. Rooted in his studies of history and literature as well as a concern for human sufferings, the paintings create profound narratives of time and space, society and individual, politics and culture, disaster and daily life. A relation is then built among the works, which mutually complement and reflect one another while generating an epic-like quality. The artist sees his artistic career as an ideal architecture, which he hopes can penetrate the desolation and absurdity of the entire history of human civilization.