Yuge Zhou

Yuge Zhou (b. 1985) has exhibited nationally and internationally in prominent art and public venues. Her work has been featured in the New York Magazine, Hyperallergic and Frieze, and recently acquired by the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago and the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation. Yuge is the recipient of the 2024 Joyce Foundation Artadia Award and a 2021 Artist Fellowship Award in Media Arts from Illinois Arts Council. ​​Growing up in the second stage of China’s economic reform, Yuge witnessed a massive influx of migration, expansion and globalization. At the age of five, she became a household name in China as the singer for popular children’s TV series. Yuge came to the US almost two decades ago to earn a degree in computer science and subsequently moved into video art and installations. As she has moved between continents and from the East coast to the Midwest, she has become deeply intrigued with coexistence and our social encounters across urban spaces. Her recent projects explore the geographical, ideological and emotional distance between her homeland and America—her adopted country—and broader challenges of transcending separation.