Yuting Zhou is a Toronto-based textile artist and designer. Currently pursuing an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art, Media, and Design at OCAD University, she holds a BDes in Material Art and Design (Textiles) from the same institution. Zhou’s multidisciplinary practice blends textiles, digital media, ceramics, performance and found materials such as wire to explore emotional memory, mental health, and the body.

Zhou's research centers on transforming domestic textile practices—particularly weaving—into live, participatory events that visualize emotional states and relational dynamics. Informed by her lived experience with bipolar disorder, her work examines how heightened sensitivity can become a generative force in creative expression. Drawing from surrealism and neo-expressionism, her installations reflect psychological states such as mania, depression, and dissociation while inviting shared reflection and community engagement.

Zhou’s recent projects include Unwoven Memories: Freddie’s Play, a mixed-media installation that honours the playfulness and presence of her late pet through video and soft sculpture, and a research-based residency in Takamatsu, Japan, where she investigated site-responsive textile performances. Her visual language often balances tension between structured forms and chaotic colours—channelling transient emotions, fragmented memories, and social critique into immersive material experiences.

In both gallery and public contexts, Zhou treats each artwork as a defamiliarization of the self—a way to re-experience, reinterpret, and share deeply personal psychological landscapes. Through tactile narratives and collaborative weaving performances, she invites viewers into spaces of vulnerability, absurdity, and joy.