Zhou Yuyue, born in 1998 in Yixing, Jiangsu, graduated with a master's degree from the University of the Arts London in 2023. He currently lives and works in Hangzhou. He is a self-media artist engaged in painting and contemporary art installations.

The artwork of the artist Yuyue Zhou primarily revolves around his profound awareness of queer identity in Chinese society and within the family environment. As a queer, he places his reflections on identity and gender within a society and family unit where homosexuality has yet to be widely accepted and legalized. Through this, he explores the irreconcilable conflicts and contradictions between the personal and the collective, concepts, and institutions, as well as the emotional struggles that arise within the queer community under the gaze of society.

Zhou Yuyue's creative process initially stems from his perception of the everyday, drawing inspiration from the uncertainty of daily events. In his installation works, he focuses on the fictionalization of daily events and the fabrication of “real performances”. He constructs narratives around everyday objects to form scenes with absurd and dramatic effects, incorporating elements of self-mockery and provocation. Through this, he explores the viewer's experience of events and their forces.

In the past two years, artist Zhou Yuyue's work has focused on self-identity, integrating self-perception from daily life into artistic expression. Dreams, childhood memories, and self-portraits form the core elements of his creations, with fragmented moments of everyday life serving as entry points to explore emotions and the inner world. During his journey of self-discovery, vague yet unique personal experiences drive him to construct highly dynamic surreal scenarios. In his works, reality is reflected through mirrors, revealing a fluid and ever-changing inner state while offering viewers a multi-layered emotional and sensory experience.

Since 2022, Zhou Yuyue's artworks have been exhibited at several important art platforms and spaces, including Line Gallery in Beijing, Hiart Space, H Gallery in Shanghai, and the Haipai Art Museum. His creative work blends a unique personal perspective with artistic language, transforming the unknowable, hidden dialogues between the self and the external world into absurd and strange fragments of everyday life. It is like a whisper, yet also like a paradise.