Zheng Guogu
Born in 1970 in Yangjiang, China.
EDUCATION
1992
B.F.A, Printmaking, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art, Guangzhou, China
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
Zheng Guogu: The Brain Nerves of The Sage – Manjusri, Mirrored Gardens, Guangzhou, China
2019
Zheng Guogu: Visionary Transformation, MoMA PS1, New York
Zheng Guogu: Photoworks 1993-2016 Even the click of a shutter is unnecessary, Eli Klein Gallery, New York
2017
Zheng Guogu: The Winding Path to Trueness, Mirrored Gardens, Guangzhou, China
2016
Zheng Guogu: Where energy inhabits?, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
2015
Zheng Guogu: Visionary Transformation, VW (VeneKlasen/Werner), Berlin
Zheng Guogu: Dialogue of Infinite Dimensions - Mandorla, FIAC, Paris
Zheng Guogu: Ubiquitous Plasma, OCAT Xi'an, Xi’an, China
Zheng Guogu: The Writings of Today are a Promise for Tomorrow (with Yangjiang Group), Palazzo Morozini, Venice
Zheng Guogu: Action for Tomorrow (with Yangjiang Group), 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney
2013
Zheng Guogu: Fuck off the Rules (with Yangjiang Group), Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai
2006
Zheng Guogu: Mouse Cow Tiger Hare Dragon Snake (with Yangjiang Group), Taikang Top Space, Beijing
Zheng Guogu: This is a Solo Exhibition, BizArt Art Center, Shanghai
2000
Zheng Guogu: More Dimensional, Chinese Archives and Warehouse, Beijing
Zheng Guogu: More Dimensional, BizArt Art Center, Shanghai
1998
Sixteen of the Ten Thousand Customers and Other Works - Zheng Guogu Photographic Works, Beijing Photo Gallery, Beijing
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
The Writings of Today are a Promise for Tomorrow, Saudi Arabia Museum of Contemporary Art at Jax, Diriyah, Saudi Arabia
Poetry by the Barbarian, ASE Foundation, Shanghai
Embark-Hang: Central Art Museum Opening Exhibition, Central Art Museum, Hangzhou, China
Radical Joy 2000AD, Surplus Space, Wuhan, China
2023
Asia Pacific Contemporary: Three Decades of APT, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland, Australia
A Leisurely Stroll—The Tenth Anniversary of the Long Museum, Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai
White Holes: The Mysteries and Modern Perceptions of Oracle Bone Script, 798 CUBE, Beijing
Garden Futures Designing with Nature, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany
2022
The Trace of Civilization—The Great Art of Dunhuang, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing
Body Cosmos: The Art of Living Together, Xie Zilong Photography Museum, Changsha, China
Tsk-Tsk in the Streets, Times Museum, Guangzhou, China
2021
The Dream of the Museum, M+ Museum, Hong Kong
Exhibition of GDMoA Annual Artist Nomination, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Cantonese Consumerism, Duende Contemporary Art Museum, Shunde, China
Asia Pacific Contemporary: Three Decades of APT, The Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland, Australia [itinerary: Noosa Regional Gallery; Stanthorpe Regional Art Gallery; John Mullins Memorial Art Gallery; Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery; Artspace Mackay; Cairns Art Gallery; Caboolture Regional Art Gallery; Redland Art Gallery; Perc Tucker Gallery; Gladstone Regional Art Gallery & Museum; Hervey Bay Regional Gallery, Queensland]
City on the Edge: Art and Shanghai at the Turn of the Millennium, UCCA Edge, Shanghai
Frequencies of Tradition, Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou, China
Beating around the Bush #6: Scenes from the Anthropocene, Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, Netherlands
In the Shadows of Paradise: Chinese Video Art Since the Turn of the Century, Center for Chinese Visual Arts, Birmingham, United Kingdom
2020
Transformation of Practices, Tang Contemporary Art, Hong Kong
Player of Beings, Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai
Frequencies of Tradition, Guangdong Times Art Museum, Guangzhou, China
The South is Not an Island, OCAT Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China
Muses, Yu Gong And Compasses, Pingshan Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
Christian Dior, Designer of Dreams, Long Museum West Bund, Shanghai
Arx Lee, Wong Shun Kit & Zheng Guogu: Transformation Of Practices, Tang Contemporary Art, Hong Kong
2019
Chinese Whispers: New Art from the Sigg Collection, MAK, Vienna
Then and Now. Life and Dreams Revisited, The Walther Collection, Neu Ulm, Germany
Other Lives of the Alternative Spaces, Taikang Space, Beijing
Extreme Mix - Guangzhou Airport Biennial 2019, Guangzhou airport resort, Guangzhou, China
2018
Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain [itinerary: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco]
The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, The Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland, Australia
Life and Dreams: Contemporary Chinese Photography and Media Art, The Walther Collection, Neu-Ulm, Germany
2017
Canton Express: Art of the Pearl River Delta, M+, Hong Kong
Frontier - Re-assessment of Post-Globalisational Politics, OCAT Shanghai, Shanghai
Three Shadows 10th Anniversary Special Exhibition: 40 Years of Chinese Contemporary Photography, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing
Post-sense Sensibility: Trepidation and Will, Shanghai Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai
2016
Mountain Sites: Views of Laoshan, Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, China
Digging a Hole in China, OCAT Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China
Unwritten Rules Cannot Be Broken (with Yangjiang Group), Guggenheim Museum, New York
2015
Nonfigurative, Shanghai 21st Century Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai
The System of Objects, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai
Back Home, Run Away: A Sample of Artistic Geography, Taikang Space, Beijing
2014
Social Factory - 10th Shanghai Biennale, Power Station of Art, Shanghai
15 Years Chinese Contemporary Art Award, Power Station of Art, Shanghai
Landscape: the Virtual, the Actual, the Possible?, Times Museum, Guangzhou, China; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, COSMOS, Shanghai 21st Century Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai
Hans van Dijk: 5000 Names, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
Hans van Dijk: 5000 Artists, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, The Netherland
Omnipresent Concrete, Hunsand Space, Beijing
Advance Through Retreat, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai
2013
Esprit Dior, Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Shanghai
Zizhiqu - Autonomous Regions (with Yangjiang Group), Times Museum, Guangzhou, China
DUCHAMP and/or/in CHINA, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
Pessimism or Resistance?, Taikang Space, Beijing
New Framework: Chinese Avant-garde Photography 1980s-90s, Blindspot Gallery & Annex, Hong Kong
2012
Rites, thoughts, notes, sparks, swings, strikes. A Hong Kong spring, Para/Site, Hong Kong
Face, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai
2011
Local Knowledge, The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
Museum on Paper: 12 Chinese Artists, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
Start from the Horizon - Chinese Contemporary Sculpture Since 1978 (with Yangjiang Group), Sishang Art Museum, Beijing
Shanshui - Poetry Without Sound?, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland
2010
ACT VIII of "MORALITY": NetherLand, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art / Dutch Culture Center, Shanghai
Reshaping History - China Youth New Art Invitational Exhibition, Today Art Museum, Beijing
Jungle - A Close-up Focus on Chinese Contemporary Art Treads, Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing
Glass Factory - Art in the New Financial Era (with Yangjiang Group), Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
2009
Breaking Forecast: 8 Key Figures of China’s New Generation Artists, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
Image Recalled - Bilder auf Abruf, 3rd Fotofestival, Mannheim-Ludwigshafen-Heidelberg, Germany
The Shop, China International Gallery Exposition, Beijing
The State of Things: China-Belgium Contemporary Artistic Exhibition, Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium; The National Art Museum of China, Beijing
Time Versus Fashion, Kunstverein Nürtingen e.V., Nürtingen, Germany
The Spectacle of the Everyday - 10th Lyon Biennial (with Yangjiang Group), Lyon, France
Bourgeoisified Proletariat, Shanghai Songjiang Creative Studio, Shanghai
2008
It Is I Too - Photographic Self-portraits by 21 Chinese Artists, A Thousand Plateaus Art Space, Chengdu, China
Sprout from White Nights, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
Farewell to Post-Colonialism - 3rd Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
China Gold: l'art contemporain chinois, La Fondation Dina Vierny-Musée Maillol, Paris
Our Future: The Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation Collection, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
“Insomnia” Photo Exhibition, BizArt Art Center, Shanghai, China
Hua Zhi Cang Long - Works on Paper, F2 Gallery, Beijing
2007
Brave New Worlds, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Documenta 12, Kassel, Germany
China Welcomes You...Desires, Struggles, New Identities, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
The Real Thing: Contemporary Art from China, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
2006
It’s all right - Contemporary Art Exhibition, China Academy of Art New Media Department & BizArt Art Center, Hangzhou, China
5th International Ink Painting Biennial of Shenzhen (with Yangjiang Group), He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
City in Progress - Live from Zhang Jiang, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Shanghai
The Twelve: Chinese Contemporary Art Awards (CCAA) Exhibition, Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
The 2nd Contemporary Ink-wash Space: Infiltration - Idylls and Visions, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Through Popular Expression, Het Domein Museum, Sittard, Holland [itinerary: Project Space, University of Central England (UCE), Birmingham, UK; Plan B Gallery, Cluj, Romania; Visitors Centre, Singapore Biennial 2006, Singapore]
Guangzhou – Cantonese Artists in the Sigg Collection, Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland
2005
2nd Guangzhou Triennial - BEYOND: An Extraordinary Space of Experimentation for Modernization, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Black - Extreme - Vigorous - Figurative, Shenzhen Fine Art Institute, Shenzhen, China
Out of Sight, De Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherland
Follow me!: Chinese Art at the Threshold of the New Millennium, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Mahjong - Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection, Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland
Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, D.C.
2004
Zooming into Focus - Chinese Contemporary Photography from the Haudenschild Collection, University Art Gallery, San Diego State University, San Diego [itinerary: Shanghai Museum of Art, Shanghai; Centro Cultural Tijuana, Mexico; Institute of Contemporary Art, Earl Lu Gallery LASALLE-SIA, Singapore]
All Under Heaven, MuHKA, Antwerp, Belgium
Past in Reverse: Contemporary Art of East Asia, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego
Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin [Itinerary: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California; Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; Seattle Art Museum, Georgia; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; ICP and Asia Society, New York; Smart Museum of Art and Museum Of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago]
À l’ouest du sud de l’Est / à l’est du sud de l’Oues (with Yangjiang Group), Centre Régional d’Art Contemporain de Sète, Sète, France
Dial 62761232 Express Delivery Exhibition - Contemporary Art Exhibition, BizART, Shanghai
2003
Fabricated Paradises (with Yangjiang Group), Le Parvis Centre of Contemporary Art, Pau, France
Second-Hand Reality, Today Art Museum, Beijing
Playing at Home/Playing Away: The Maze of Reality - Canton Express in Zone of Urgency, Venice
The Fifth System: Public Art in the age of “Post-Planning”, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
2002
Urban Creation - 4th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
Paris - Pekin, Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris
Too Much Flavour, 3H Art Center, Shanghai
Asianvibe: Contemporary Asian Art, Espai d’art Contemporani de Castelló, Castellón, Spain
P_A_U_S_E, Borges Libreria/China, 4th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
2001
Hot Pot, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway
Photo Festival Naarden, Naarden City, The Netherlands
City Slang, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
Chinese Photography Show, Passage de Retz, Paris
Cross Pressures, Oulu Art Museum, Oulu; Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland
Hangzhou New Medium Art Festival, China Fine Art Academy, Hangzhou, China
Living in Time - 29 Contemporary Artists from China, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Hamberg, Berlin
Yangban. Jiashang - the 1st Chengdu Biennale, Chengdu Contemporary Art Museum, Chengdu, China
2000
CLASH! 100 artists, Canvas International Art, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Individual and Society in Art - A Collection of Works of Art by Eleven Chinese Artists, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen: Cities of the 21st Century, Bauhaus Dessau, Dessau, Germany
The Sun Rises in the East - The Current Artistic Scene in Asia, Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d’Arles, France
Portraits, Figures, Couples and Groups from the Modern Chinese Art Foundation, BizArt, Shanghai
1999
Post-sense Sensibility Alien Bodies & Delusion, Basement Third Ring Road, Beijing
Innovations (Part I), China Art Archives and Warehouse, Beijing
Concepts, Colors and Passions, China Art Archives and Warehouse, Beijing
Changing Views, Kunsthal Hof 88, Almelo, The Netherlands
IX Bienal Internacional de Fotografía, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City
Cities on the Move 4, Hayward Gallery, London
Cities on the Move 5, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
Love - Chinese Contemporary Photography & Video, International Arts Festival Tachikawa, Tachikawa, Japan
Modern Chinese Art Foundation, Caermersklooster, Gent, Belgium
1998
Biennial de l'imago Paris 98, Centre national de la Photographie, Paris
Site Art Project, Walking Museum in Takashimaya, Tokyo
Site of Desire - Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
Confused, KunstRAI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Photography as Concept - 4th Internationale Foto Triennial, Esslingen, Germany
Cities on the Move 2, CAPC, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, France
Cities on the Move 3, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Centre, New York
The Corruptionists, Basement Third Ring Road, Beijing
Images Telling Stories: Chinese New Concept Photography Art - Beautiful Like Nanjing; Materialism (Part of Photography), Art College of Shanghai University, Shanghai; Beijing; Hong Kong; Changchun; Shenzhen, China
Unveiled Reality, Centers of Academic Resources, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok
1997
Contemporary Photo Art from P. R. China, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin [itinerary: Städtische Kunstsammlungen, Chemnitz; Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany]
Cities on the Move 2, Wiener Secession, Vienna
1996
Possibility – Installation Exhibition with the Big Tail Elephant Group, Guangzhou, China
1994
The Third Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art, Documentation Library of East China Normal University, Shanghai, China
No Room - With the Big Tail Elephant Group, Guangzhou, China
AWARDS
2006
Best Artist Award by CCAA (Chinese Contemporary Art Awards)
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California
M+ Collection, Hong Kong
POMERANZ COLLECTION, Vienna, Austria
dslcollection, Paris, France