Xintong Zuo
an illustrator who loves turning stories, memories, and little everyday moments into pictures that feel alive. My work often wanders between playful children’s illustrations and experimental projects that mix drawing with sculpture or installation.
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Education
✨Ontario College of Art & Design University, Bachelor of Design: Illustration, 2024
Awards
✨3x3 International Illustration Show No.22 - Merit, 3x3 Magazine, New York, USA, July 2025.
✨Sketchbooks, No.1 - Sketchbook Competition Winner, Affiliated High School of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts (GAFA), Guangzhou, 2017.
Publications
✨"Book Illustration." Parts Work-An Illustrated Guide to Your Inner Life, third edition, China Machine Industry Publishing House, 2023.
✨"Book Cover." Wainscot's Conversations on Parenthood, China Light Industry Press, 2019.
Group Exhibition
✨Mid-Way Animation Fair Exhibition,
OCAD University, Toronto, Canada, 2025.
Yong Artist Show 2024, Prometheus Gallery, Toronto, Canada, Dec 2024
✨Echoes of Myth, Sheridan gallery, Mississauga, Canada, 2024.
✨Mould Making, OCAD University, Toronto, Canada, 2024.
✨Insidious Devices, Ada Slaight Gallery, Toronto, Canada, 2023.
✨Sketchbooks, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum, 2019.
Clients
✨Tom Holmes, Ph.D.
✨Lauri Holmes, MSW.
Professional Experience
✨Art Teacher, Canada Creative Education Centre, Toronto, Canada, Aug 2025.
✨External Advisory Committee member, OCAD University, Onsite Gallery, Toronto, Canada, 2025
✨Art Intern, CBC Kids, CBC News Network, Toronto, Canada, 2024.
✨Gallery Attendant, OCAD University, Onsite Gallery, Toronto, Canada, 2024.
✨O-TEAM, OCAD University, OCAD University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2024.
✨Teaching Appointments - Painting Tutor, Toronto, Canada, 2022.