Ying Zhu is a Glasgow-based visual artist and illustrator working across printmaking, drawing, artist books and digital image-making. Her practice explores the body as an archive and examines how personal experiences intersect with identity, memory and wider social structures. Using etching, lithography and sequential illustration, she translates subjects including compulsive hair pulling, piercing, pain and emotional grounding into layered narrative images. Her work moves between intimate autobiographical material and observations of contemporary life. Zhu holds an MLitt in Illustration from the Glasgow School of Art and a BA in Printmaking–Illustration Art from Hubei Institute of Fine Arts. Her work Floating City received a 2026 Applied Arts Illustration Award in the Young Blood category.