Guo Wei

Biography

1960: Born in China.

1989: Graduated from Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts.

Currently lives and works in Sichuan Province, China.

Selected Exhibitions

2006

• Brothers, Cheng Xindong Contemporary Art Space, Beijing
• Pay Attention to the Undercurrent, Robert & Li Art Gallery, Tainan
• The Naked Truth, Tang Gallery, Bangkok
• Unclear and Clearness, Heyri Art Foundation, South Korea

2005

• Web Notes, Beijing Art Now Gallery BANG (solo)
• Unspeakable Happiness. A Selection of Contemporary Art from China, Tamayo Museum of Contemporary Art, Mexico
• No Looking Back on Tomorrow, Guandu Gallery, Taibei
• Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu Modern Art Gallery, Chengdu
• Dreaming of the Dragon's Nation: Contemporary Art from China, Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), Dublin
• Biennale de l'art contemporain Chinois, Montpelier
• Contemporary Chinese Art, Seoul Art Centre, Seoul
• Contemporary Art from Greater China, Goedhuis Contemporary, New York, USA; London, United Kingdom
• Born in China, Goedhuis Contemporary, New York & London

2004

• Living in Chengdu, Shenzhen, China
• Face to Face. Six Artists and One Time, Robert & Li Art Gallery, Tainan, Taiwan
• In Between, Tang Gallery, Bangkok
• Living in Chengdu, Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen
• So Near, So Far, Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester
• Indoor With Mosquitoes and Moths, LOFT Gallery, Barcelona
• Shaping, Yibo Gallery, Shanghai, China
• 4+1, Art Centre of Asia, Taipei, Taiwan

2003

• L'Art Contemporain Chinois, Foundation Culturegest, Lisbon
• From China with Art, Indonesia National Gallery, Jakarta, Indonesia
• New Painting 2003, Yibo Gallery, Shanghai, China
• First Guangzhou Triennale, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangdong Province, China

2002

• On the Edge of the Millennium, Goedhuis Contemporary, London, United Kingdom
• Chinese Modernity, Armandao Alvares Penteado Foundation, Sao Paulo, Brazil
• Paris-Pekin, L’Espace Cardin, Paris, France
• Six Contemporary Chinese Artists (Leferink Collection), Reykjavik Art Museum at Kjarvalstadir, Reykjavik, Iceland
• Fundacao Oriente, Macau (solo)
• Works by Guo Wei, Gallery of Temporary Exhibitions-Casa Garden Orient Foundation, Macau
• The Modernity of China, Sao Paulo, Mexico
• The Paintings of Guo Wei and Guo Jin, Goedhuis Contemporary, New York
• Guo Jin and Guo Wei, Courtyard Gallery, Beijing
• The 1st Triennial of Chinese Art, Guangzhou Art Museum, Guangzhou
• Paris-Peking, Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris
• Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu Modern Art Museum, Chengdu

2001

• Next Generation, Passage de Retz, Paris
• Contemporary Art, Christie’s, Taipei
• Rouges, Galerie Loft, Paris
• Guo Wei and Guo Jin, Chinese Contemporary Gallery, London
• China Avant Garde, LIMN Gallery, San Francisco
• China Avant Garde, Frumkin/Duval Gallery, Santa Monica
• Dream. 2001 Chinese Contemporary Art, Red House Foundation, London
• The First Biennale of Chengdu, Modern Art Museum, Chengdu
• Frumkin Duval Gallery, Los Angeles (solo)
• LIMN Gallery, San Francisco (solo)

2000

• FUTURE Chinese Contemporary Art, Macau
• Door of the Century, Modern Art Museum, Chengdu
• LOFT Gallery, Paris, France (solo)
• The Chengdu Movement, Canvas International Art, Amsterdam
• Guo Wei and Guo Jin, Courtyard Gallery, Beijing

1999

• Bound States Guo Wei's Works, Taiwan Shanmei Gallery, Kaohsiung
• 14th Asian International Art Exhibition, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka
• Art China! LIMN Gallery, San Francisco
• Liberation, Chinese Contemporary, London
• Representing the People, Laining Art Gallery, Newcastle

1998

• Confused...Reckoning with the Future Contemporary China, Amsterdam
• Black & White, Chinese Contemporary, London
• 5000 + 10, Chinese Contemporary, London, Bilbao
• East Meets East in the West, LIMN Gallery, San Francisco
• China Now, Tokyo
• Guo Wei and Guo Jin, Flanders Contemporary Art Gallery, Minneapolis
• The Guo Brothers, Soobin Art Gallery, Singapore
• World Art. Serieuze Paintings and Photography, Amsterdam
• Binding Up, Taiwan

1997

• East and East meets West, LIMN Gallery, San Francisco
• Chinese Art, Hong Kong Art Centre, Hong Kong
• 8+8-1, Selected Paintings by 15 Contemporary Artists, Schoeni Art Gallery, Hong Kong
• The First Invitation Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Art, Hong Kong Art Centre, Hong Kong
• China Now, Kulturprojekte, Basel

1996

• Contemporary Chinese Art Exhibition, Munich
• Elevenses, The Avant-Garde, Hong Kong
• Today. Chinese Art Exhibition, Basel
• Elevenses the Avant-Garde, Taikoo Place, Hong Kong
• The Urban Idealist. New Art from Sichuan, Schoeni Art Gallery, Hong Kong
• History of Chinese Oil Paintings, From Realism to Post-modernism, Gallerie Theoremes, Brussels

1994

• The Strange Environment 1994, Sichuan Art Museum, Chongqing

1993

• The First Biannual Exhibition of Chinese Oil Paintings, China Art Gallery, Beijing
• Oil Paintings from the 90's, The Guangzhou Biannual, Guangzhou
• China's New Art Post-1989, Hong Kong
• The First Beijing Oil Painting Biennale, China Fine Arts Gallery
• The Guangzhou Biennale: Oil Paintings from the 90's, Guangzhou

1988

• Six-Man Exhibition, Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts, Chongqing