YUYU ZHITONG

BIOGRAPHY

Yuyu Zhitong (b. 1993, Guangzhou, China) is a London-based artist whose practice fuses poetic intuition with intellectual rigour. A graduate of the Slade School of Fine Art (UCL), where she received First-Class Honours in 2020, she also studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris and completed her Master’s degree at the Royal College of Art in 2023.

Zhitong’s recent works are distinguished by their gestural dynamism and conceptual depth. Navigating the terrain between abstraction and figuration, her canvases unfold like visual equations—structured yet instinctive, logical yet deeply emotive. Informed by her passion for mathematics and natural sciences, she employs a method akin to reductio ad absurdum, allowing her to resolve visual contradictions through layered composition and unexpected chromatic harmonies.

Dance is another central axis of Zhitong’s practice. Having trained in traditional, folk, and contemporary Chinese dance, her work channels movement as both form and feeling—her brushwork echoing the rhythm of choreography, her compositions unfolding like silent performances. A signature palette of ultramarine and magenta pulses across the surface of her paintings, conjuring a world suspended between mystery and clarity, stillness and velocity.

Recent exhibitions include the Hong Kong Arts Centre (2024), a two-person show at Palm Gallery in Taiwan (2024), and a solo exhibition at Cadet Capela in France (2023). Her work is held in the public collection of Fundación MEDIANOCHE0 in Spain.

Yuyu Zhitong will present her debut solo exhibition in the Middle East at Volery Gallery, Dubai, in January 2026.