Multidisclinary artist based in Vancouver, BC, Canada
SOLO EXHIBITIONS & TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2024 Nearly touching the promise, The Cabinet, SFU Woodwards, Vancouver
2021 Country Balance, Zalucky Contemporary, Toronto
2020 Grass Drama, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver
2020 Staying in the feeling, Malaspina Printmakers, Vancouver
2019 Solitaire, with Anne Bourse, Cassandra Cassandra, Toronto
2018 Dreamweed, Unit 17, Vancouver.
2018 Cloudcuckooville, Soon.tw, in collaboration with Tiziana La Melia
2017 Stupid sun, 8eleven, Toronto
2017 Milman Parry’s Waiting Room Rhapsody, Artspeak, Vancouver
2017 Mucking around the beginning and the end, with Sylvain Sailly, Spare Room, Vancouver
2015 Help me Remember, L’escalier, Montreal,
2014 Window Bended Harmony, CSA Space, Vancouver
2008 PPPPFFFFFGGGGGHHHH with Christian Kliegel, Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Or gallery (upcoming, fall)
2022 Mystic Toolkit, Artpace, San Antonio, Texas
2021 Moonshow, curated by Hearth Garage @ the Plumb, Toronto
2021 Technē, organized by Antonia Hirsch, Republic gallery, Vancouver
2020 Pandemic is a Portal, SFU Audain Gallery, Vancouver
2018 Matters in the end, Support, London, On
2018 History Works Itself in All Directions, Blinkers, Winnipeg
2017 Soot, Unit 17, Vancouver
2016 Ambivalent Pleasures, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
2016 Big Toe, Giant Steps, 221A @ Occidental Temporary, Paris, France
2015 Through a Window, Simon Fraser University Gallery, Vancouver
2015 Occasional Furniture, The Apartment, Vancouver
2011 Faker than Faux Fur, Access Artist Run Centre, Vancouver
PUBLIC ART
2024 Bicycle Moon (Blue Light), Mount Pleasant Community Art Screen, Grunt Gallery
2023 Bicycle, as part of Facade for the City of Markham, co-organized by AGYU, cancelled by the City of Markham
2021 Crossroads, Public artwork at 4488 Juneau St, Burnaby, B.C.
2017 Chintzware, Cambie Station, Capture Festival, Vancouver
SPECIAL PROJECTS & COLLABORATIONS
2023 Typographic Collaboration Featuring Julian Yi-Zhong Hou and Shane Krepakevich, A publication partnership between
BlackFlash Magazine and Le Sigh
2022 Grass Drama, with text by Chanelle Adams, as part of Xenia Benivolski’s You Can’t Trust Music, e-flux
2022 Strange Relief, Music Gallery, Toronto
2019 Second Spring, Curated by Sungpil Yoon of VIVO with the COV, Trout Lake
2019 Anoetic Tokenization, a research project invited by Jesse Mckee and 221a, Blockchains and cultural padlocks
2017 A Pair of Blue, commissioned music for performance by Katie Lyle and Shelby Wright
2017 Throwing shade, commissioned by Wllpprs, New Forms Festival, Vancouver
2017 This chime has a door, commissioned by Yu Su, 221a
2017 Songs through a wall, commissioned by Stacey Ho
2015 Closeup, The Breakdown, commissioned music for Judy Radul, Agnes Etherington Art Centre
2015 Strange Relief, The Apartment, Vancouver
2015 Light Soluble Mediums, Organism for Poetic Research, The Picture Show, New York
2013 Continuum Model, commissioned soundtracks for films by Sylvain Sailly, Western Front, Vancouver
2013 Rent Assembly, Kootenay School of Writing, Vancouver
2011 Signal & Noise Festival, VIVO Media Arts, Vancouver
LIVE PERFORMANCES & TALKS
2024 Artist talk, Emily Carr University
2021 Guest Artist, University of Victoria Visual Arts, Victoria
2019 Cloudcuckooville, with Tiziana La Melia, organized by Casual Magic, New York City
2018 Guest Artist, Langara University, Vancouver
2017 Nexus Line, Kamias Triennale, Quezon City
2017 Fire makes no sound, Things that can Happen, Hong Kong
2017 What about the Children? Damien and the Love Guru, Brussels, Belgium
2017 In collaboration with Tiziana La Melia, Galerie der Stadt Schwaz, Schwaz, Austria
2017 Nexus Line, Vancouver Art Gallery
2016 Milman Parry's Waiting Room Rhapsody, The Tent Shop, Duplex, Vancouver
2014 Lot Potpourri in collaboration with Tiziana La Melia, The Apartment, Vancouver
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2023 Wounded Healer, a series of events, residency and program co-curated by Fan Wu with artists Prince Nifty, Eddy Wang.
Western Front
2020-current Curator for Second Spring
2019 Humus, a presentation of research by artists, UBC Blockchain conference and Pollyanna Library, 221a
2015 Aligned with the Curve of Night, Model Projects, Vancouver, co-curated with Tiziana La Melia
2014 The Corruption of Time’s Dust, 221a, Vancouver, curatorial residency
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2023 The gentle engine of de-asphyxiation, @hauntprojects, Instagram
2022 Strange relief, as part of Strange Relief at the Music Gallery
2021 Anoetic Tokenization, as part of Blockchains & Cultural Padlocks, 221a
2020 Ketamine Clear, as part of Pandemic is a Portal, SFU Audain Gallery
2018 Maggie Seven Days, Charcuterie 4
2017 Grammar Glamour, exhibition text for Tiziana La Melia, Unit 17
2016 Vancouver Special: Ambivalent Pleasures, Vancouver Art Gallery
2016 Influence in the air, textsound, Issue 21
2016 Bad Breath, ti-TCR, a Web-Folio, No. 15, pg 27.
2015 Surfing the Margins, The Bartleby Review, September.
2015 John Smith, The Art Book Review, February.
2014 Don’t Play, exhibition text for Steven Hubert, Sunset Terrace.
2014 Lisa Robertson’s “Thinking Space”, Capilano Review, Spring 2014.
2013 Amphibian Slurps (w/ Tiziana La Melia), Fantasy Art Now, Swimmers Group Books
2013 Drive to Siria, Spoox Audiozine, Issue 9
REVIEWS & ARTICLES
2024 To touch The Ten Thousand Things without dependency: interlocking wounds and intuitions with Fan Wu and Julian Hou,
interview by Amy Gottung, Reissue Pub, March 2024
2023 City of Markham apologizes after cancelling public artwork featuring queer subject in drag, by Ryan Patrick Jones, CBC News, October 24, 2023
2023 Magic as Pedagogy: Transforming art and self with Megan Hepburn, Patrick Cruz, and Julian Yi-Zhong Hou, by Coco Zhou,
Reissue Pub, Feb 2023
2022 Two Kinds of Knowledge Shaking Hands: A Conversation About You Can’t Trust Music by Julieta Aranda and Xenia Benivolski,
Flash Art, Fall 2022
2022 New Symbologies, Symbols and Spirits in works by Julian Yi-Zhong Hou and Zadie Xa, by Jayne Wilkinson, Esse arts + opinions,
105, 2022
2022 Making your way under darkness: Moonshow at the plumb, by Dana Snow, Peripheral Review, May 25, 2022
2021 Almost Gathering, by Lauren Fournier, Galleries West, 2021
2021 Julian Yi-Zhong Hou’s Country Balance, by Molly Cranston, Editorial Magazine, 2021
2021 Grass Drama Julian Yi-Zhong Hou, by Magnus Tiesenhausen, Cmagazine, Summer 2021
2021 Grass Drama and Selected Works, Laura Stanley, New Feeling, Issue 4, 2021
2020 Resonant signals, by Joni Low, Canadian Art, Spring 2020
2020 Solitaire: Julian Hou and Anne Bourse, by Kate Kolberg, Cmagazine, Issue 145, 2020
2019 Julian Hou: Life of a resident artist, by Theresa K Howell, V 19, 2019
2019 Julian Hou, Interview by Fiorela Argueta, Discorder magazine, Winter 2018
2018 History is a passive translator, Lauren Lavery, Peripheral Review, August 8 2018
2017 Vancouver Report: From one body to another, Lucien Durey, Canadian Art online, October 25 2017
2017 Julian Hou: Milman Parry’s Waiting Room Rhapsody, Steffanie Ling, CMagazine, Issue 135, 2017.
2017 Mucking around at the beginning and the end, Steffanie Ling, Akimblog, September 2017.
2015 Aligned with the curve of night at Model Projects, Akimblog, September 2015
2014 Julian Hou at CSA space and 221a, Kathryn Rozitis, Issue Magazine Fall 2014.
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2024 Western Front, Curatorial residency, Vancouver
2021 Sobey Award Long-list
2019 Triangle Residency, Marseille
2018 Western Front Residency, Vancouver
2017 221a, Vancouver, Production Residency
2017 Mayor’s Award for Emerging Visual Artist, Vancouver
2014 221a, Vancouver, Curatorial Residency
2010 Vaughn Berg Memorial Award, UBC Architecture
GRANTS
2022 Canada Council Concept to Realization Grant
2022 BC Arts Council Visual Arts Project Assistance Grant
2020 Canada Council Visual Arts Travel Grant
2018 Canada Council Visual Arts Research and Development Grant
2018 BC Arts Council Visual Arts Project Assistance Grant
2018 City of Vancouver Public Art Grant
2018 Canada Council Visual Arts Travel Grant
2017 Canada Council Media Arts Travel Grant
COMMUNITY SERVICE
2020-Present Second Spring, organizer
2019-2021 Or Gallery, Board of Directors
EDUCATION
2010 Masters of Architecture, University of British Columbia
2006 Bachelors of Arts, Art and Culture Studies, minor in Visual Arts, Simon Fraser University
COLLECTIONS
EQ Bank Collection
RBC Collection
Private Collections