BIOGRAPHY

1957          Born in Beijing, China

1978          Began art career

1986          Graduated in Fine Arts, Beijing Capital University and

                 became an art teacher in a high school.

1993          Granted permanent residency in Australia Lives

                 and works in Sydney.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
 

2007          Day After Tomorrow, Red Gate Gallery 798 Village Beijing.

                 A Mysterious Land, ARC One Gallery Melbourne

2006          Other Histories: Guan Wei’s Fable for a Contemporary World, Powerhouse Museum , Sydney.
                
A Distant Land, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide.
                
Jiang Hu, Liverpool Regional Museum, Sydney.
                 Echo
, Sherman Galleries, Sydney.

2005          Secret Histories, ARC One Gallery , Melbourne.

2004          Looking for Enemies, Sherman Galleries, Sydney 
                 
Prediction-Reflection, Church Gallery, Perth International Arts Festival

2003         
Looking, Greene St Studio, New York
                 
A Passage to Australia, Canberra School of Art, Australian National University, ACT

2002         
Dao, Esplanade Theatres on the Bay, Singapore
                
Island, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney
                 
Exotic Flowers & Rare Grasses, Sherman Galleries Hargrave, Sydney

2001         
Studio Show, Parks Victoria, Warrandyte, Melbourne

2000         
Horoscope, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing
                 
Arrivals, Sydney 2000 Olympic Arts Festival, Sherman Galleries Hargrave, Sydney
                 
Zen Garden, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney
                 
Looking for Home, Earl Lu Gallery, Lasalle-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore

1999         
Floating, Sherman Galleries Hargrave, Sydney
                 
Nesting, or Art of Idleness 1989-1999, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
                 Recent Work, Span Galleries, Melbourne

1998         
Revisionary, ANU Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra
                 
Internal Circulation, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing
                 
Beijing to Sydney, Chifley Plaza, Sydney

1997         
The Last Supper, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
                 
ex/inspire, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney
                 
Anonymous Invader, Sydney Grammar School, Sydney

1996          Return to Paradise, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing
                 
Umbrella Studio, Townsville, North Queensland
                 
Magic Garden, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong

1995          Treasure Hunt, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney

1994          The Great War of the Eggplant and Sausage, ANU Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra

1993          Test Tube Baby, Sherman Galleries Hargrave, Sydney

1992          The Living Specimen, Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart
                 
Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart

1991          Waverly City Gallery, Melbourne
                 
Despard Street Gallery, Hobart
                 
Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart
                 
Photospace, Canberra School of Art, Australian National University, ACT

1989          French Embassy, Beijing

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008          Handle with Care, Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia
                 Australian, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre Sydney
                 Lines in the Sand-Botany Bay Stories from 1770, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Art Centre, Sydney.
                 

2007          Down Under, DenHaag Sculptuur 07 Hague Sculpture Netherlands
                 Voiceless, Sherman Galleries Sydney
                 Scienceasart, Art Gallery of NSW Sydney
                 Culture Trackers, 24HR Art NT Centre for Contemporary Art Darwin NT Australia
                 News from Islands, Campbelltown Arts Centre
                 National Artists Self Portrait Prize, The University of Queensland Art Museum

                 Process-Journey, Red Gate Gallery Beijing C

2006          Between River and Lake, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York
                 15th Anniversary Exhibition, Red Gate Gallery Beijing
                 Living Water Dreaming Water, Sydney University Museums
                 Flewrieu Peninsula Biennale, Mclaren Vale South Australia
                 Yours, Mine & Ours 50 Years of ABC TV, Campbelltown Arts Centre
                 2006 The Year in Art, S. H. Ervin Gallery Sydney.

2005          Text Me – an exploration of body language, Sherman Galleries Sydney.
                
The Nature Machine Contemporary Art Nature and Technology, Queensland Art Gallery.
                 The 10th Anniversary of Post – Earthquake Restoration Hyogo International Competition of 
                 Painting
,Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan.
                 The Wynne Prize Exhibition
, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney.
                 The Sir John Sulman Prize Exhibition
, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney.
                 In Between Realities …
, Three on the Bund Gallery Shanghai, China.
                 Western Front: art is a social space, Blacktown Arts Centre, Sydney.
                 Future Tense – security and human rights
, Dell Gallery Queensland College of Art, Grifith Uni.

2004          ARTV 2004, Australian Centre for the Moving image (ACMI), Melbourne
                 Cycle Tracks Will Abound in Utopia
, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA),  Melbourne
                 The Plot Thickens: Narratives in Australian Art, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
                 Terra Alterius: Land of Another, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, COFA, University of New South Wales,

                 Sydney

                 Frank Saxby Acquisitions, Manning Regional Art Gallery, Taree, NSW
 

2003-04      Face Up: Contemporary Art from Australia, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, Berlin
                 Isle of Refuge, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, COFA, University of New South Wales, Sydney; Monash
                 University Museum of Art, Melbourne

2003          Festivus, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
                 Art & About, City of Sydney, CBD banner exhibition
                 Witnessing to Silence: Art and Human Rights, ANU Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra
                
Synergies: A Fusion Event, ANU Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra
                
Hothouse: The Flower in Contemporary Art, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne
                 Science Fictions, Earl Lu Gallery, LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore
                 The Dish Ran Away With The Spoon, Academy Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart
                 Ned Kelly Framed, S.H. Ervin Gallery, National Trust Centre, Sydney
                 Creating Paradise on Earth, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney
                 Austral-asia Zero Three
, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney

2002          Festivus, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney
                
2002: The Year in Art, S.H. Ervin Gallery, National Trust Centre, Sydney
                 Dialogue with the Watchtower, Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane; Melbourne Art Fair; Singapore Art Fair
                
Points of View, University of Technology Gallery, Sydney
                
Visual Arts: Esplanade Opening Festival, Theatres on the Bay, Singapore
                 Dressing and Dreaming, Sherman Galleries Hargrave, Sydney
                 Deeper Places, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney
                 Borderpanic, Performance Space, Sydney
                 Sir John Sulman Prize Exhibition
, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
                 Group Exhibition, Sherman Galleries Goodhope
                 Sydney 2002, Hill on Hargrave Gallery, Sydney
 

2001          10th International Biennial Print & Drawing Exhibition, R.O.C., Taipei Fine Art Museum
                 Asia in Australia: Beyond Orientalism
, Queensland University of Technology Art Museum, Brisbane
                 39th Festival of Fisher's Ghost Award, Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery, Sydney
                
International Print Triennial, Kanagawa, Japan
                
Berlin Art Fair, Germany Shanghai Art Fair, China
                
Clues to the Future, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing
                
Hermanns Art Award
, Sherman Galleries Hargrave, NSW and VIC touring exhibition
                 7th NICAF: International Contemporary Art Festival 2001 Tokyo, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
                 Low-down: Recent Acquisitions, Monash University Collection, Monash University, Melbourne

2000-01      Lines of Descent: The Family in Contemporary Asian Art, Queensland Art Gallery touring exhibition

2000         
New Acquisitions, University of Western Sydney Collection, Penrith
                 Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest, Sydney
 
                Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery and Community Centre, Sydney
                 A Long Life, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
                 Man and Space, Kwangju Biennale

99-2000
     The Rose Crossing, Brisbane City Gallery, Brisbane; HongKong Arts Centre, Hong Kong; Singapore Art
                  Museum, Singapore; Holmes a Court Gallery, Perth; S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney; Campbelltown City
                  Bicentennial Art Gallery, Sydney

1999         
Sir John Sulman Prize Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
                 Persuasive Humours, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney
                 Chicago Contemporary Art Fair 1999, US
 
                The 4th Kochi International Triennial Exhibition of Prints
, Japan
                 The Artful Cello, Georges Adams Gallery, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne, touring exhibition
                 Five Continents
and One City, curator Gao Minglu, Second International Salon of Painting, Mexico
                 City Gallery, Mexico

               
  Third Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art
, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
                  Sydney 99, Australia and China Cultural Exchange Art Exhibition, SGI Australia Cultural Centre and
                  Cheng Shifar Gallery Art Center Academic, Shanghai

1998         
Sir John Sulman Prize Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, touring to  Wollongong
                 City Gallery, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Broken Hill City Art Gallery and Wagga Wagga Regional Art

                 Gallery
                 Cartoons and Caricature in Contemporary Art, Geelong Art Gallery, VIC, touring exhibition
                 Beyond China, Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery, Sydney
                 Drift, City Art Gallery, Wagga Wagga, NSW, touring exhibition
                 Skin Culture
, George Gallery, Melbourne, touring exhibition
                 Culture Graft, Gallery 4A, Sydney
                 To the Wall - and Back, Span Galleries, Melbourne
                 Ways of Being, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, COFA, University of New South Wales, Sydney
                 Australian Drawing Biennale, ANU Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra, touring exhibition

97-2000
     In and Out: Contemporary Chinese Art from China and
Australia, Earl Lu Gallery, LASALLE-SIA
                 College of the Arts, Singapore; RMIT Gallery, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology,Melbourne;
                 Sydney College of the Arts Gallery, Sydney University; Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart;                  John Curtin Gallery, Curtin University of Technology, Perth;Canberra School of Art, Australia National  
                 University;
 Rockhampton City Council,Queensland; Cairns Regional Gallery, Queensland; He
                 Xiangning Art Museum,  Shenzhen, China; Australian Embassy, Beijing, China

1997         
Drift, Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest; Wollongong City Art Gallery, NSW
                Anon, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney
                8th International Contemporary Art
Competition, Osaka Triennial 1997, Mydome, Osaka,Japan
                Asian Art at the Australian National University, ANU Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra
                John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize Exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne

1996-97    
Flagging the Republic
, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney, regional touring exhibition

1996         
Above and Beyond, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art ACCA), Melbourne; Institute of 
                Modern Art
, Brisbane; 24 HR ART, Darwin; Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide
                Fifth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne
                5th Anniversary Exhibition, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing
                Monash University Acquisitive Art Prize, Monash University, Melbourne
                Compost Exhibition, Adelaide 96 Festival, Adelaide
                A Sense of Place, Bede Gallery, Jarrow, UK

1995         
Australian Perspecta
, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
                Works on Paper, Sherman Galleries Hargrave, Sydney
                The Collectable Egg Beater, Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart
                3 x 3 Sites, Sydney, Christchurch, Auckland, Berlin, Canberra, Beijing

1994         
New Art from China, Noosa Regional Gallery, QLD
                94 Open, Artspace, Sydney
                Conrad Jupiters Art Prize, GoldCoast City Art Gallery, QLD
                Localities of Desire
, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
                Fourth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne

1993         
New Art from China, post-1989, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
                New Art in China 1989-93, Hanart Gallery, Taipei
                Mao Goes Pop, China Post-1989, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
                Silent Energy, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK
                Second Asian Art Fair, Hong Kong

1992-93    
Six Contemporary Chinese Artists
, Space YZ, University of Western Sydney, Nepean;
                Griffith  University Art Gallery, Brisbane

1992         
Orient-ations: The Emperor's New Clothes, Irving Galleries (renamed Sherman Galleries,
                October 1992), Sydney
 
               Chinese New Wave, Chameleon Contemporary Art Space, Hobart
                Third Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne

1991         
Twelve Contemporary Chinese Artists, University of Sydney
                Echoes of China: From Behind the Bamboo Curtain - Three Contemporary Chinese Artists, Irving

                Galleries (renamed Sherman Galleries, October 1992), Sydney


1990-91    
Three Chinese Artists, Plimsoll Gallery, Tasmanian School of Art, Hobart


1990         
Contemporary Chinese Young Artists' Works, Twin Cranes Gallery, Seattle, US
                 90 International Youth Art Show, Paris
                 Lun Exhibition (six artists' works), Beijing
                 1989 Individual  Paintings, Beijing Teachers Institute, Beijing
                 Exhibition of the Second Party of the Survivors' Poets Club
, Beijing Central Drama Institute, Beijing


1988         
Alumni Painting Exhibition, Beijing Teachers Institute, Beijing
                 
Exhibition of Four Artists, Jian Gou Men Wai Foreign Department, Beijing


1987         
Guan Wei and Ah Xian Paintings, Beijing University, Beijing


1986          
Exhibition of Four Artists, Beijing University, Beijing
               
Autumn Salon Exhibition
, Paris


RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS

2007           Ambassador 2007 City of Sydney Chinese New Year Festival.

                  Grant, Australia Council, artist in residence at Cite International des Art Paris.

2006           Artists’ Camp, Gunbalanya (Oenpelli), Western Amhem Land, through 24HR Art, Darwin (Australia

                  Council Grant)

                  Artist-in-residence Campbelltown Arts Centre Sydney

2005           Australian – China Council residence grant at Taipei Artist Village.           

2003           Australia Council Grant, Artist in residence, Greene St Studio, New York Visiting Fellowship, Canberra

                  School of Art, Australia National University, ACT


2002           Sir John Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney


2001           Mosman Art Prize, Sydney 39th Festival of Fisher's Ghost Award, Campbelltown Bicentennial City

                  Art Gallery, Sydney
                  Artist in residence, Bundanon Trust, Nowra, NSW
                  Artist in residence, Parks Victoria, Melbourne
                  Artist in residence, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, NSW


2000           Asia Link Australia Grant
                  Artist in residence, Lasalle SIA College of the Arts, Singapore


1999           Nillumbik Art Award, Eltham, VIC
                  Geelong Print Prize, Geelong Art Gallery, VIC
                  Rena Ellen Jones Memorial Print Award, Warrnambool Art
Gallery, VIC
                  Artist in residence, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University


1998           Visiting Fellowship, Canberra School of Art, Australian National University, ACT
                  Australia Council Grant
                  Conrad Jupiters Art Prize, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, QLD


1997           Artist in residence, Sydney Grammar School
                  Australian Printmedia Art Prize, University of Western Sydney, Nepean
                  Biennial Art Exhibition Diary Award, Sutherland Entertainment Centre, Sydney


1996           Curatorial team member, Second Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art
                  Gallery, Brisbane


1995           Australia Council Grant


1994           Conrad Jupiters Art Prize, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, QLD


1993           Artist in residence, Canberra School of Art, Australian National University, ACT


1992           Artist in residence, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney


1990-91      Artist in residence, Tasmanian School of Art, University of Tasmania, Hobart


1990           Australia Council Grant


1989           Artist in residence, Tasmanian School of Art, University of Tasmania, Hobart


COMMISSIONS

2004          
Feng Shui, mural for Bureau of Meteorology, 700 Collins Street, Docklands, Melbourne
                 
Paper War, ARTV, for SBS television and Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), Melbourne


1997           One of eight artists commissioned to produce fine-art, limited-edition prints for the Sydney 2000

                  Olympics poster program


SELECTED COLLECTIONS

- National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
- Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
- Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
- Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
- Artbank
- Australian Embassy, Beijing
- Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery, NSW
- Geelong Gallery, VIC
- Gold Coast City Art Gallery, QLD
- Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney

- National Gallery of VIC
- Nillumbik Art Gallery, VIC
- Parliament House, Canberra

- Powerhouse Museum Sydney
- Australian National University, Canberra
- Griffith University, QLD
- Monash University VIC
- University of New South Wales, Sydney
- University of Tasmania, Australia
- University of Technology, Sydney
- University of Western Sydney, Nepean
- Parks Victoria Melbourne, VIC
- Sydney Grammar School
- Wesfarmers
- Contemporary Art and Culture Centre, Osaka, Japan
- Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong
- Tokyo Gallery Japan
- Private collections

 
 

 

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