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Education

2022-2025 University of California, Los Angeles, Master of Fine Arts, Painting & Drawing 

2016-2020 School of Visual Arts, New York, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Illustration

 

Solo Exhibition

Broad Art Center, “The Interrogation of Belongingness,” Los Angeles, US, 2025

The Scholart Selection, “Silent Observers,” San Gabriel, US, 2024

A/W Space, "Under the Surface," Nanjing, China, 2024

Xela Institute of Art, "Corner of My Eye," Long Beach, US, 2024

 

Group Exhibition

A/W Space, “Specimens”, Nanjing, China, 2026

Asian Artists Center x Sasse Museum of Art, “Time Lag”, Pomona, US, 2026

Good Naked Gallery x Don’t Look Project, “Desert Island”, Los Angeles, US, 2026

Unveil Gallery, "Beyond the Image," Irvine, US, 2025

Steven Zevitas Gallery, “New American Paintings 2025 Review”, Boston, US, 2025

Cevera Yoon, “[-],” Los Angeles, US, 2025

Gene Gallery, “Outpost,” Shanghai, China, 2024

Good Mother Gallery, “All Things Equal,” Los Angeles, US, 2024

Venice Family Clinic Benefit Exhibition + Auction, Venice, US, 2024

Sasse Museum of Art, "The Realm of Possibilities," Pomona, US, 2024

Unveil Gallery, "Reverie retrouvée," Irvine, US, 2023

Good Mother Gallery, "The MFA's of LA," Los Angeles, US, 2023

 

Selected Press Release

New American Paintings, Nova #1, Jul 2026

Women United Art Magazine, Issue XII, Dec 2025

Visual Art Journal, Issue #33, Aug 2025

Collect Art, Women Art, Vol. 69, Jun 2025

Collect Art, 101 Contemporary Artists and More, Vol. 9, May 2025

Studio Visit Magazine, Vol.53, May 2025

Al-Tiba9 Contemporary Art, Issue #18, Apr 2025

New American Paintings, Issue #175, Dec 2024

New American Paintings, Issue #171, Apr 2024

Art Seen: The Curator’s Salon Magazine, Winter Issue, Nov 2024

The Purposeful Mayonnaise, Issue 2.5, Feb 2023

 

Selected Interview & Feature

Feature: Yezi Lou Paints Memory as a Beautifully Unreliable Witness, Art Plugged, Jul 2026

Feature: “The Aesthetics of Alienation and the Fragility of Memory in Yezi Lou’s Painting”, Artmag, Jul 2026

Feature: “Yezi Lou: Fragments of Home in Circulation”, AATONAU, Jun 2026

Interview: “New York-based Artist Y ezi Lou“, Asian Art Contemporary, Mar 2026

Feature: “Yezi Lou: Cultural Nostalgia and the Politics of Materiality”, FAD Magzine, Dec 2025

Feature: “Between Memory and Presence: The Quiet Resistance in Lou’s Paintings”, The Art Insider, Aug 2025

Interview: “A Conversation with Yezi Lou: The Poetics of Ambiguity”, CAI, Jul 2025

Interview: “Yezi Lou”, Visual Art Journal, Jul 2025

Interview: “10 Questions with Yezi Lou”, Al-Tiba9 Contemporary Art, May 2025

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Publication

Chinning Liu: From biological to social metabolism, Whitehot Magazine, Aug 2026

Time Spiral and Edible Memory in Siqi Fan’s Performative Kitchen, Whitehot Magazine, May 2026

Language, Space, and Survival in Greater New York 2026, Whitehot Magazine, Apr 2026

Care After Collapse: A Conversation With Sining Zhu, Whitehot Magzine, Apr 2026

Transcending Borders: A Conversation With Yiwa Lau, Whitehot Magzine, Mar 2026

Incidentals: Xiangni Song at VillageOneArt, Whitehot Magzine, Feb 2026

Exhibition Review, LEFTOVERS: David Horvitz & Sophia Le Fraga at Gene’s Dispensary, Jan 2026

Exhibition Review, Traces: Sigrid Xiyuan Qian at Sasse Museum of Art, Nov 2025

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Residency

Don’t Look Project, Los Angeles, CA 2026

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Art Fairs

Untitled Art Fair, Houston, TX 2026 

The Other Art Fair, Dallas, TX 2025

The Other Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA 2024

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Contact

yezilou.studio@gmail.com 

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