Gongmo Zhou

Presentation

Gongmo Zhou (b. 1993, Yueyang, China) lives and works between Paris and Nantes. His practice explores the tension between visibility and disappearance, examining how digital interfaces mediate our perception of reality. Drawing from photographs, screen reflections, and digital fragments, he translates the language of the virtual into tactile, painterly form. Through gradations of blur and clarity, Zhou investigates the shifting boundaries between reality and representation, presence and absence, perception and memory.

As an artist living abroad, Zhou’s experience of distance and communication through screens has led him to question the authenticity of images in the digital age. Reflection has become his method of observing the world, turning materials such as glass and metal into thresholds between dimensions. His Screen Series reconstructs blurred online imagery into compositions reminiscent of virtual windows, while the Door Series transforms everyday reflections on glass and metal doors into meditations on absence, transparency, and connection. Subtle traces, locks, handles, silhouettes, suggest ghostly presences and the porous boundary between interior and exterior space.

Zhou holds a Master’s degree in Fine Arts from the École des Beaux-Arts de Nantes (2023) and a Bachelor’s degree from the China Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing (2015). He has exhibited internationally, including solo presentations at Long Story Short Gallery (Paris, 2025), HdM Gallery (Beijing, 2024), and SUPER Gallery (Nantes, 2024), as well as group exhibitions at Art021 Shanghai, Moosey Gallery (London), and Plus-One Gallery (Antwerp). In 2023, he received the Prix Spécial du Jury des Arts Visuels de la Ville de Nantes and completed a residency at Hôtel de Craon, La Rochelle, supported by the Encore! Chessé Group Endowment Fund (2024).

Portrait shot by Mathieu Vouzelaud