Gladys Lou is a Hong Kong-Canadian curator, writer, and artist currently pursuing an M.A. in Curatorial Studies at the Center for Curatorial Studies (CCS), Bard College. She holds a B.A. in Art & Art History and Psychology from the University of Toronto and was awarded a Fulbright scholarship with a placement at the University of Washington, where she studied Digital Arts and Experimental Media in 2022. Her research explores experimental media and new technologies, including moving images and new media art, to investigate and challenge the boundaries of sensory perception. Her current projects contemplate on the diverse shapes and forms that queer love and intimacy can take on screen and in the digital world.

Lou’s work has been exhibited internationally, including at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Alicante, the Art Museum at the University of Toronto, and the Art Gallery of Mississauga. She was a participant in the RBC Emerging Artist Network at the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto (2022–2023) and received first prize at Video Fever 2023, presented by Trinity Square Video, Vtape, and Images Festival. Her critical writing has appeared in ArtReview, ArtAsiaPacific, C Magazine, MUBI Notebook, Public Parking, Studio Magazine, PhotoED Magazine, Femme Art Review, Impulse Magazine, The AMP, Ornamentum, Pleasure Dome, and Hamilton Artist Inc.

Lou was selected as an IA Current Curator by InterAccess in 2023 and has held curatorial and research positions at Vtape, the Blackwood Gallery, Ontario Culture Days, the National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.), and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Her independent curatorial projects include To see the world in a grain of sand (2025) at Factory Media Centre, Thing Valley (2024) at the Hessel Museum of Art, and All watched over by machines of loving grace (2023) at InterAccess. Upcoming exhibitions in 2026 include Shigeko Kubota: Video is a Ghost of Yourself at CCS Bard and Depixelating History at The New Gallery.