Biography
Milan Zou (b. 1997, China) is a London-based artist whose practice unfolds through oil painting as a form of philosophical inquiry. Trained in fashion design at Parsons School of Design, Zou reinterprets the garment as a disciplinary husk — a structure through which social order, gender, and the body are quietly organized.
Her paintings begin with the logic of fashion sketches yet move toward a process of undoing. Through erasure, she strips garments of their decorative and symbolic roles, revealing them as hollow containers of ideology. What remains is neither body nor cloth, but the residue of consciousness — a state suspended between submission and release.
Zou’s visual language bridges Eastern contemplative thought and Western structural critique. Rather than narrating, she constructs tension between stillness and transformation, silence and revelation. In her work, resistance does not announce itself through defiance, but through persistence — a slow act of awareness that turns letting go into a method of being.
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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