Guo Xi was born in Yancheng in 1988. After graduation from New Media Art Department of CAA in Hangzhou in 2010, Guo Xi joined a two-year residency program at the Rijksakademie in Netherlands. In 2015, he got from MFA degree in Studio Art from NYU.
Read MoreGuo Xi likens an artist's work to an act of 'piercing', making little pores on the hard husk of ideologies, through which people will be given a chance to glance at the Truth hidden within. In his view, the visual form is a medium for the transmission of message, and that justifies his extensive use of a variety of artistic forms, such as installation, painting, performance, sculpture, text, et cetera, to try to convey his messages as faithfully as possible.
Text courtesy ShanghART.
