Wei Zhou
Artist
Filmmaker

Wei Zhou (b.1993, she/they) is a Chinese filmmaker and artist, she operates at the intersection of video, photography, sound, scent, and text. Currently based in Glasgow, her practice employs autobiographical frameworks to explore themes of sensory perception, embodied desire, and interspecies entanglement. Her works have been exhibited across Beijing, Changsha, Glasgow, Graz, Hamburg, and London. Zhou is currently developing practice-based PhD research at the University of Edinburgh.


EDUCATION 教育背景

2024/09-Present  Practise-based PhD in Art Edinburgh College of Art

2019/09-2021/06 Master of Fine Art  Glasgow School of Art (GSA)                                                                                                                                        
2015/09-2016/09 Msc Filmmaking and media arts  University of Glasgow (UofG)                                
2011/09-2015/06 BA Radio and Television Director  Hunan Normal University (HNU)  

EXHIBITIONS 展览

2025/05 SQIFF x Queer East Collab Screening, Rio Cinema, London, UK

2025/03 Collaborative project Wah Yen by Wei Zhang with Clarinda Yung Tse 雍記, Katherine Ka Yi Liu, Siyao Li, Wei Zhou, Xuan Gao, Eye Suriyanon, Yifan Lan and LingLong Wang at Adelaide Fringe 2025, Adelaide, Australia

2024/06 Collaborative project Wah Yen by Wei Zhang with Clarinda Yung Tse 雍記, Katherine Ka Yi Liu, Siyao Li, Wei Zhou, Xuan Gao, Eye Suriyanon, Yifan Lan and LingLong Wang at Glasgow International 2024, Glasgow, UK

2023/09 Solo Exhibition The Unspeakable In Pursuit Of The Uneatable, Intermedia Gallery, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, UK

2022/11 Screening at Love Queer Cinema Week, Beijing Queer Film Festival, Beijing, China

2022/10 MFA at citizenM, citizenM hotel, Glasgow, UK

2022/09 Group Show In Finite Worlds as part of Glasgow Open Door Festival, SaltSpace Gallery, Glasgow, UK

2022/07 Group Show EXTENDED BODIES, Fabrique Im Gängeviertel, Hamburg, Germany

2022/06 Solo Show In The Name Of The Rose at SaltSpace Galley, Glasgow, UK               

2021/09 Group Show Reverberations: A Response to the Her Noise Archive, London, UK

2021/09 Short film Resurface (2021), screened at Queer East Festival, London, UK

2021/06 GSA MFA Graduate showcase Hotwheels, Glue Factory, Glasgow, UK
                                                             
2021/03 GSA MFA online showcase Glue                                                                                        

2020 Domestic Decadence, collaborative publication, with Emma Wolf-Haugh and Market Gallery, showing at Grazer Kunstverein Gallery, Graz               
                         
2020/04-06 Group Show at Xiezilong Photography Museum, Changsha, China                  

2019/11 Group Show My Truth Is Your Story at The Britannia Panopticon, Glasgow                    

2017 Short film Fluid (2016), screened at Scottish International Queer Film Festival, Glasgow     
WORKSHOPS 工作坊

2020/11 Show Me How You Care Collaborative             
                                                             
2020 Domestic Decadence, collaborative workshop and publication, with Emma Wolf-Haugh and Market Gallery, Glasgow  
                                                                 
2018 Workshop Young People - film training for inspiring stories of life and work in Argyll

GRANTS AND AWARDS 奖助与奖项

2023 Creative Scotland The Open Fund for Individuals

2022 VISUAL ARTIST & CRAFT MAKER AWARDS Creative Scotland and Glasgow Life

2022 Hardship Fund Creative Scotland

2021 Long-listed artists for the Ivan Juritz Prize for Creative Experiment

2020 Shortlisted for LUX Scotland Now & Next 2020

CONFERENCE 学术会议

2025/03 Presenter at Chimeras: Text/Image History, Transformations and Future, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK

PUBLICATIONS 出版物

2021 June, collaborative publication. Glasgow School of Art MFA Publication

2020 Domestic Decadence, collaborative publication with Emma Wolf- Haugh and Market Gallery