Gongmo Zhou

Zhou Gongmo, (b. 1993, Yueyang, China) lives and works between Paris and Nantes, France.

Gongmo’s practice explores the tension between visibility and disappearance, investigating how digital interfaces mediate our experience of the world. Her paintings draw from photographs, screen reflections, and digital fragments, translating the language of the virtual into tactile, painterly form. Through gradations of blur and clarity, she examines the shifting boundaries between reality and representation, presence and absence, perception and memory.

Her recent series reflects on the interface as both a threshold and a mirror—connecting and separating, making present while erasing. The malleability of oil paint becomes a metaphor for this duality, as her works oscillate between figuration and abstraction, inviting viewers into an ambiguous space between the physical and the digital.

Gongmo 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). She 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, she was awarded 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 in 2024.

Portraits shot by Mathieu Vouzeland and Yuzi Wu