Guo Hongwei

Guo Hongwei’s paintings cover a wide range of subjects, from natural and historical objects, such as birds and flowers, and ores, to image sources that dominate traffic on short video platforms, or the diversity of humans and the world. The artist explores the multiple meanings of the act of “viewing” and the intertextual references of vision and fantasy. By investigating different visual systems and switching between media such as watercolor and oil painting, the artist searches for paradigmatic differences in the order of painting. In collage, video and installation works, Guo Hongwei attempts to create new surface logic and deep emotions by deconstructing and restructuring images, appropriating classical Western contemporary art, and grafting different image and contextual systems.

The artist’s solo exhibitions include Guo Hongwei: The Place of Liveness, Magician Space, Beijing, 2021; Guo Hongwei: Pareidolia, Chambers Fine Art, New York, 2020; Happy Hours, DRC No.12, Beijing, 2019; Plastic Heaven, Chambers Fine Art, New York, 2017; Miss Oyu, Frieze New York, New York, 2014; Guo Hongwei: Editing, Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai, 2013.

Group exhibitions include: The Racing will Continue, the Dancing will Stay, Times Museum, Guangzhou, 2019; Silent Transformation: Traditional Medical Culture in Ancient Texts and its Subtle Influence in Contemporary Art & Life, Sichuan Provincial Library, Chengdu, 2019; Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions, Yebisu Garden Place, Tokyo, 2016; My Generation: Young Chinese Artists, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA, 2015; Tampa Museum of Art & Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg; Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, 2014; Jing Shen: The Act of Painting in Contemporary China, Padiglione d’arte Contemporanea, Milan, 2015; ON | OFF: China’s Young Artists in Concept and Practice, UCCA, Beijing, 2013; Reactivation: The 9th Shanghai Biennale, PSA, Shanghai, 2012.

Courtesy Magician Space