(1960- )
Guo Wei
1960 Born in Chengdu, China
1989 BFA Department of Printmaking, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China
Lives and works in Chengdu, China
Solo Exhibitions
2013 Guo Wei’s New Work, K. Gallery, Chengdu, China
2011 Dissociation-Guo Wei's Works (2010-2011), K. Gallery, Chengdu, China
2010 Fabrication, Tang Contemporary Art, Hong Kong
2008 Guo Wei’s New Work, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing
2006 Attention Now, Robert Li Art Gallery, Tainan, Taiwan
Clouds in the Room, Galerie LOFT, Paris
Guo Wei: The Fictitious Self, Jasmine Fine Arts, Singapore
2005 Web Notes, Beijing Art Now Gallery, Beijing
2004 Indoor, Mosquitoes and Moth, Galerie LOFT, Barcelona
2002 Guo Wei, Oriental Foundation, Macao
2001 Guo Wei, FRUMKIN/DUVAL Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Guo Wei, LIMN Gallery, San Francisco, USA
2000 Guo Wei, Galerie LOFT, Paris
1999 Enswathement State, Taiwan Mountain Art Gallery, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Selected Group Exhibitions
2016 2016 International Graphic Exhibition of Prints, Winshare Art Museum, Chengdu, China
Image Spirit: 2016 Art Exhibition of Famous Artists’ Manuscript Paintings, K. Gallery,
Chengdu, China
1st International Exhibition of Contemporary Art of E’mei, E’mei Contemporary
Art Museum, E’mei, China
2015 Secret: Guo Wei & Guo Jin, LinBART, Shanghai
Voyage Diary- Thailand, Blue Roof Museum of Chengdu, Chengdu, China
2014 Living in Chengdu, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei
Winshare—The New: Contemporary Art Invitational, Winshare Art Museum,
Chengdu, China
The Future is the Past: in Search of a Chinese Portrait, ChinaCultureDesk, Vienna
Three Man Portraits: He Sen/Feng Zhengjie/Guo Wei, PATA Gallery, Shanghai
The Rural, The Scar, The Soul: Works of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, National Museum of Taiwan History, Tainan, Taiwan
2013 The 4th Biennale Art Changsha, Changsha Museum, Changsha, China
Portrait of the Times: 30 Years of Chinese Contemporary Art, Power Station of Art, Shanghai
Voice of the Unseen, Arsenal Nord, Venice, Italy
2012 Omen- New Chinese Art, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
Vision: Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, Z-art Center, Shanghai; K. Gallery, Chengdu, China
Companion- Guo Wei & Guo Jin’s Exhibition, Xi’an Art Museum, Xi’an, China
Face, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai
2011 Flowing Clouds: New Contemporary Chinese Art, Sichuan Museum, Chengdu, China
2011 Chengdu Biennale, Blue Roof Museum of Chengdu, Chengdu, China
Pure Views, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, USA
Unable Absence, Winshare Art Museum, Chengdu, China
2010 Chinese Contemporary Art in the Year of the Tiger, Centre Culturel de Rencontre Abbaye de Neumünster, Luxembourg
Reshaping History: Chinart from 2000 to 2009, China National Convention Center, Beijing
Nanjing Biennale: And_Writers 2010, Jiangsu Art Museum, Nanjing, China
2009 Beijing- Havana, Cuba National Art Museum, Havana
Broadsheet Notations: Epilogue, Tang Contemporary Art, Hong Kong
2008 Intimate Trend: Painting from Sichuan and Taiwan, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei
Beijing-Athens: Contemporary Art Exhibition from China, Athens Nations Contemporary Art Center, Athens
Today’s China: Contemporary Art from China, Belvue Museum, Brussels
Our Future: The Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation Collection, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
2007 A New Realm: A Grand Vision of Contemporary Chinese Art, Soka Art Center, Taipei
From New Figurative Image to New Painting, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing
Black White Grey- A Conscious Cultural Stance, Today Art Museum, Beijing
Art Now Shanghai, Beijing Art Now Gallery, Shanghai
New Southwest Contemporary Painting Exhibition, K. Gallery, Chengdu, China
Made in China: Works from the Estella Collection, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen
2006 Naked Truth, Tang Contemporary Art, Bangkok
True or False—Rediscovery of Contemporary Arts in Asia, Heyri Art Valley, Paju, Korea
2005 Tribute to ’85, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
Don't Look Back Tomorrow, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei
Ineffable Happiness—Chinese Contemporary Arts Exhibition, Museo Tamayo, Mexico
City
1st Montpellier International Biennial of Contemporary Chinese Art, Montpellier, France
Young Chinese Contemporary Art, Seoul Art Center, Seoul
Born in China, Michael Goedhuis Gallery, London
Conceptual Art: Exhibition of Contemporary Paintings from China, Tap Seac Gallery, Macau
2004 Living in Chengdu: Inviting Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Oil Painting, Shenzhen
Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
4+1: Contemporary Oil Painting Exhibition, Asia Art Centre, Taipei
Dreaming of the Dragon’s Nation: Contemporary Art from China, Irish Museum of
Modern Art, Dublin
Far Away, So Close: Paintings by Guo Wei & He Duoling, Chinese Art Centre, Manchester, UK
In Between, Tang Contemporary Art, Bangkok
2003 From China with Art, National Gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta
New Oil Paintings Collection, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong
2002 Paris- Beijing, Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris
New Art from China, Michael Goedhuis Gallery, New York
On the Edge of the Millennium: New Art from China, Gagosian Gallery, London
2001 Next Generation: Asia Contemporary Art Exhibition, Pasaro Terrence Art Museum, Paris
1st Chengdu Biennial, Chengdu Modern Art Museum, Chengdu, China
Chilis from Chongqing, Kunsthochschule Kassel, Kassel, Germany
Rouges…, Galerie LOFT, Paris
On Boys and Girls, Upriver Loft, Kunming, China
2000 New Works: Guo Wei and Guo Jin, Courtyard Gallery, Beijing
1999 The Century Gate: 1979-1999 Invitation Exhibition of Chinese Art, Chengdu Modern Art
Museum, Chengdu, China
14th Asian International Art Exhibition, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Representing the People, Tyne and Weir Museum, Newcastle, UK
Chinese Figures, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong
New Modernism for a New Millennium: Works by Contemporary Asian Artists from the Logan Collection, LIMN Gallery, San Francisco, USA
1998 Confused: Contemporary Chinese Paintings and Photography, KunstRAI1998, Amsterdam
Guo Wei& Guo Jin, Soobin Art Int’l, Singapore
1997 8+8-1—Circuit Exhibition of Fifteen Contemporary Artists, Schoeni Gallery, Hong Kong
East and East Meets West, LIMN Gallery, San Francisco, USA
1996 China Now, Littmann Kulturprojekte, Basel, Swizterland
China-Recent Works from 15 Studios, Raumen der Hebstrabe, Munich, Germany
1995 Contemporary Chinese Oil Painting: From Realism to Post-Modernism, Theoremes Gallery, Brussels
1994 ’94 Strange Instance, Sichuan Fine Arts Insititute, Chongqing, China
1993 1st Chinese Oil Painting Biennale, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
1992 China’s New Art, Post- 1989, Hong Kong Arts Centre; Hong Kong City Hall, Hong Kong
1st Guangzhou Biennale, Central Hotel, Guangzhou, China
1989 China/Avant-Garde, National Art Museum of China, Beijing
Public Collection
Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
Changsha Museum, Changsha, China
Ningbo Museum of Art, Ningbo, China
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
The Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation, Switzerland
Guerlain Foundation, Paris
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Yuz Foundation, Jakarta