Bio

Kathy H. Zhou is a Toronto-based artist and researcher known for the leather banana peel sculpture “Abandon” and the Educational Game “Fall of Artica (FoA)”. Influenced by contemporary artists Claes Oldenburg, Brian Jungen, and Chloe Wise, she pays attention to the mundane and creates work that is situated in the everyday.

She believes “play” is a powerful concept that shakes the static social constructs like “class,” “ taste,” and “identity.” Playful states temporarily help individuals escape their prescribed direction, practice, and behavior.

bananatomy@gmail.com

CV

Education

2021- Curr Ph.D. Student, University of Toronto 

2018-2020    MA, University of Toronto 

2014-2017    BFA, OCAD University

Selected Exhibitions

2023 / Heterotopia Garden, OCAD University Graduate Gallery, Toronto, Canada

2023 / E. W. S. N. Intersectionalism group exhibition of seven artists, Toronto, Canada

2020 /  Covid-19 Portraits- online exhibition (Toronto, Canada)

2019 /  Interview (OMNI TV) Artist introduction of 2116: Art Of Leverage 

Exhibition (Toronto, Canada)

2018 /  Arts and Education Conference, OISE, UofT (Toronto, Canada)

2018 /  Attachment & Detachment: Emerging Young Artist (Toronto, Canada)

2017 /  Interview by Numeroventi Art Residence & Gallery (Florence, Italy)

2017 /  Short film “Florence, Genuine Leather, Made in Italy” (Florence, Italy)

2017 /  Leather Sculpture (Private Collection, Italy)

2017 /  Art Toronto 2017 (Toronto, Canada)

2017 /  Gradex 102 Exhibition at OCAD University, Toronto, Canada

2017 /  Forward Motion: Contemporary Video Works Group Exhibition (Florence, Italy)

2017 /  Una Piccola Scintilla: An exhibition of artworks from OCAD U (Florence, Italy)

2016 /  Interview (OMNI TV)

2016 /  Across the Ocean Film and Video Exhibition (New York City, US)

2016 /  Art of Leverage: Group Exhibition (Toronto, Canada)

2015 /  Future, Technology, Visual Arts and Experimental Music Interdisciplinary Exhibition, 

(Toronto, Canada)

2014 /  Awenda Inspired Exhibition (Toronto, Canada)

2014 /  GreenWinter Group Exhibition at OCAD University (Toronto, Canada)

2012 /  House of Memory Gallery Group Exhibition (Toronto, Canada)

2009 /  Drawing “Portrait of a Woman” (Visual Art Museum of SNUC, China)

Collections & Publications 

2017/ Interview (Numeroventi Artist Residency, Florence, Italy)

2017/ Short film “Florence, Genuine Leather, Made in Italy”(Foreigners in Florence, Italy)

2017/Leather Sculpture (Private Collection, Italy)

2016/Interview (OMNI TV)

2016/Painting “Pure Beauty” (Private Collection, Canada)

2013-2014/Toronto Public Transportation Billboard Illustration “Breakout” TTC

2009/Drawing “Portrait of a Woman” (Visual Art Museum of Sichuan Normal University China) 

Award

2021 / Ontario Graduate Scholarship (Doctoral Level) 

2017 /  OCAD University Career Launcher Prize Winner (Drawing & Painting) 

2017 /  OCAD University Florence Program Fellowship