Biography
Milan Zou (b. 1997, China) is a London-based artist with a background in fashion design from Parsons School of Design. Her practice focuses on the structural entanglement between systems of discipline, social order, and states of interiority.
Working exclusively in oil painting, Zou often begins with fashion sketches, gradually stripping garments of their function and trend, reconfiguring them as residual containers of ideology. In her paintings, the body is no longer a pure vessel of emotion, but an existence shaped by structures of power—hovering between ambiguity, oppression, and release.
Her artistic philosophy merges Eastern modes of insight with Western structural critique. Rather than conveying linear narratives, she constructs a visual tension between erasure and emergence, silence and presence. Resistance in her work is not declarative, but structural—a persistent echo of existence beyond language.
Group Exhibitions
2025 - Exuvial Theatre, Safehouse 1. London, UK
2024 - Destiny vs. Will, Sotheby’s Institute of Art. New York, USA
2024 - 7, theBlanc. New York, USA
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