Guo Wei
Born in 1960, Guo Wei graduated in woodcut program at Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts in 1989, and currently lives and works in Sichuan Province, China. He is a pioneer of early group oil painting exhibitions at mainland institutions in the 90’s. Guo Wei consistently insists on the individual figure, and many of his subjects are Young girls that surround him, often his own daughter. Although trained in woodcut, he has mastered oil painting, playing with the sculptural qualities of the material ; for instance, in the exhibition, “Fabrication” showing works in which the artist makes cut-outs from acrylic canvases. Guo Wei’s bold use of colour reflects the vitality of his subjects, and spray-paint effects add an urban touch to his paintings. We could sum up his production in a renewed reflection on individualism, strikingly rising after the deep changes in Chinese society over the past few years. Guo Wei has had several gallery and institutional exhibitions, including Centre Pompidou and Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul.
Biography
Born in 1960, Guo Wei graduated in woodcut program at Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts in 1989, and currently lives and works in Sichuan Province, China. He is a pioneer of early group oil painting exhibitions at mainland institutions in the 90’s.
Guo Wei consistently insists on the individual figure, and many of his subjects are Young girls that surround him, often his own daughter.
Born in 1960, Guo Wei graduated in woodcut program at Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts in 1989, and currently lives and works in Sichuan Province, China. He is a pioneer of early group oil painting exhibitions at mainland institutions in the 90’s.
Guo Wei consistently insists on the individual figure, and many of his subjects are Young girls that surround him, often his own daughter.
Although trained in woodcut, he has mastered oil painting, playing with the sculptural qualities of the material ; for instance, in the exhibition, “Fabrication” showing works in which the artist makes cut-outs from acrylic canvases. Guo Wei’s bold use of colour reflects the vitality of his subjects, and spray-paint effects add an urban touch to his paintings.
We could sum up his production in a renewed reflection on individualism, strikingly rising after the deep changes in Chinese society over the past few years.
Guo Wei has had several gallery and institutional exhibitions, including Centre Pompidou and Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul.
Exhibitions
Career
Exhibitions
2014
Group Exhibition, LOFTISMMES, Galerie Loft, Paris, France
2012
Spot Light – China Youth Art Exhibition, Bund18 Creative Center, Shanghai, China
Exhibitions
2014
Group Exhibition, LOFTISMMES, Galerie Loft, Paris, France
2012
Spot Light – China Youth Art Exhibition, Bund18 Creative Center, Shanghai, China
2011
Democratising China, Vue Privée, Singapore
Portal & Virginia Miller Galleries, Miami, USA
Dissociation – Works by Guo Wei, K Galerie, Chengdu, China
2010
Erotic, Hadrien de Montferrand Gallery, Beijing, China
Guo Wei / Barthélémy Toguo, Hadrien de Montferrand Gallery, Beijing, China
2009
On Love? On War? Prominent Contemporary Chinese Artists, Stux Gallery, New York, USA
Chasing Flames, Eli Klein Fine Art, New York, USA
Art – Look or Listen, Soobin Art International, Singapore
2008
Anatomy, The Skins of Drawing – Florence and Daniel Guerlain Collection, FRAC Picardie, Amiens, France
Asian Contemporary Art, Rudolf Budja Galerie / Artmosphere Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
In Division, Olyvia Fine Art, London, UK
Solo Exhibition, Tant Art Contemporain, Beijing, China
2007
10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong
RE-collection – A Retrospective Look at 15 Years of Art and Vision, Schoeni Art Gallery, Hong Kong
Made in China – The Estella Collection, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Barcelona – Paris – Beijing, Espace Cultural Ample, Barcelona, Spain
Made in China – The Estella Collection, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
Solo Exhibition, Suppositional Selfhood, Renaissance Art Museum, Singapore
2006
Brothers, Cheng Xindong Contemporary Art Space, Beijing, China
Pay Attention to the Undercurrent, Robert & Li Art Gallery, Tainan, Taiwan
The Naked Truth, Tang Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
Unclear and Clearness, Heyri Art Foundation, Seoul, South Korea
Solo Exhibition, Chambre avec Nuages, Galerie Loft, Paris, France
2005
Web Notes, Beijing Art Now Gallery (BANG), Beijing, China
Unspeakable Happiness – A Selection of Contemporary Art from China, Tamayo Museum of Contemporary Art, Mexico City, Mexico
No Looking Back on Tomorrow, Guandu Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu Modern Art Gallery, Chengdu, China
Dreaming of the Dragon’s Nation: Contemporary Art from China, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Biennale of Chinese Contemporary Art, Montpellier, France
Contemporary Chinese Art, Seoul Art Centre, Seoul, South Korea
Contemporary Art from Greater China, Goedhuis Contemporary, New York, USA & London, UK
2004
Living in Chengdu, Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
Face to Face – Six Artists and One Time, Robert & Li Art Gallery, Tainan, Taiwan
In Between, Tang Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
So Near, So Far, Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester, UK
Indoor with Mosquitoes and Moths, LOFT Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
Shaping, Yibo Gallery, Shanghai, China
4+1, Art Centre of Asia, Taipei, Taiwan
Latitude / Attitude, Schoeni Art Gallery, Hong Kong, China
Guo Wei – Guo Jin, Xi’an Art Museum, Xi’an, China
Pure Views: A New Trend in Chinese Contemporary Painting, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, USA
Beijing – Athens, Technopolis, Athens, Greece
Dreaming of the Dragon’s Nation, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Group Exhibition, Tang Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
2003
Chinese Contemporary Art, Fundação Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal
From China with Art, Indonesia National Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
New Painting 2003, Yibo Gallery, Shanghai, China
First Guangzhou Triennale, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangdong, China
2002
On the Edge of the Millennium, Goedhuis Contemporary, London, UK
Chinese Modernity, Armando Alvares Penteado Foundation, São Paulo, Brazil
Paris–Beijing, Espace Cardin, Paris, France
Six Contemporary Chinese Artists (Leferink Collection), Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
Works by Guo Wei, Casa Garden, Orient Foundation, Macau, China
2001
Next Generation, Passage de Retz, Paris, France
Contemporary Art, Christie’s, Taipei, Taiwan
Rouges, Galerie Loft, Paris, France
Guo Wei & Guo Jin, Chinese Contemporary Gallery, London, UK
China Avant-Garde, LIMN Gallery, San Francisco, USA
China Avant-Garde, Frumkin/Duval Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
Dream 2001 – Chinese Contemporary Art, Red House Foundation, London, UK
First Chengdu Biennale, Modern Art Museum, Chengdu, China
2000
Future – Chinese Contemporary Art, Casa Garden, Orient Foundation, Macau, China
Door of the Century, Modern Art Museum, Chengdu, China
LOFT Gallery, Paris, France
The Chengdu Movement, Canvas International Art, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Guo Wei & Guo Jin, Courtyard Gallery, Beijing, China
1999
Bound States – Works by Guo Wei, Taiwan Shanmei Gallery, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
14th Asian International Art Exhibition, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Art China!, LIMN Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Liberation, Chinese Contemporary, London, UK
Representing the People, Laining Art Gallery, Newcastle, UK
Group Exhibition, 09.99 – Chinese Avant-Gardes, Galerie Loft, Paris, France
1998
Confused… Reckoning with the Future – Contemporary China, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Black & White, Chinese Contemporary, London, UK
5000 + 10, Chinese Contemporary, London, UK & Bilbao, Spain
East Meets East in the West, LIMN Gallery, San Francisco, USA
China Now, Tokyo, Japan
Guo Wei & Guo Jin, Flanders Contemporary Art Gallery, Minneapolis, USA
The Guo Brothers, Soobin Art Gallery, Singapore
World Art: Serious Paintings and Photography, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Binding Up, Taiwan
1997
8+8–1: Selected Paintings by 15 Contemporary Artists, Schoeni Art Gallery, Hong Kong, China
China Now, Kulturprojekte, Basel, Switzerland
East and East Meets West, LIMN Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Chinese Art, Hong Kong Art Centre, Hong Kong, China
1996
Today – Chinese Art Exhibition, Basel, Switzerland
Elevenses – The Avant-Garde, Taikoo Place, Hong Kong, China
Contemporary Chinese Art Exhibition, Munich, Germany
1995
The Urban Idealist – New Art from Sichuan, Schoeni Art Gallery, Hong Kong, China
History of Chinese Oil Paintings – From Realism to Postmodernism, Galerie Théorèmes, Brussels, Belgium
1994
The Strange Environment 1994, Sichuan Art Museum, Chongqing, China
1993
First Biannual Exhibition of Chinese Oil Paintings, China Art Gallery, Beijing, China
1992
Guangzhou Biennale, Guangzhou, China
China’s New Art Post-1989, Hong Kong, China
Beijing Oil Painting Biennale, China Fine Arts Gallery, Beijing, China
1988
Six-Man Exhibition, Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, Chongqing, China
