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Gladys Lou (she/they) is a Hong Kong-Canadian artist and curator with an Hon. B.A. in Art & Art History and Psychology from the University of Toronto and Sheridan College. Her practice utilizes experimental media and new technologies including video, sound, and new media to investigate and challenge the boundaries of sensory perception. Her work explores visual phenomena and shifting perceptions of light, colour, and memory, visualizing emotions and the unconscious.
Lou's art has been exhibited locally in Toronto ON at InterAccess, Workman Arts, Art Museum at the University of Toronto, Blackwood Gallery, Art Gallery of Mississauga, and internationally at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Alicante and the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Her critical writing has been published by Pleasure Dome and Hamilton Artist Inc. Lou was awarded a Fulbright scholarship with a placement at the University of Washington, where she studied Digital Arts and Experimental Media in 2022. She was selected as the IA Current Curator at InterAccess in 2023, and has interned at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. with the Time-Based Media working group in 2022. She was selected as a participant of the RBC Emerging Artist Network at the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto in 2022–2023. She was awarded Best in Show at the 42nd Annual Juried Art Show 2024 at the Visual Arts Centre of Clarington, and first prize at Video Fever 2023 by Trinity Square Video, Vtape, and Images Festival in Toronto. |
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