Gu Xiong (artist)

Gu Xiong was born 1953 in Chongqing, Sichuan, China.^[1] At the age of 18, during the Chinese cultural revolution, Xiong was sent to live in the countryside where he sketched scenes of rural life.^[3] He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Master of Fine Arts degree (1985)^[4] from the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute.^[5] In 1986, he attended an artist residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Alberta Canada,^[6] becoming the first artist from the People's Republic of China to do so.^[7] After returning to China, he was a part of the 1989 China Avant-Garde exhibition that was shut down by the Chinese police a few hours after it opened, four months before Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.^{[8][9][10][11]} Xiong immigrated from China to Vancouver Canada in 1989.^{[11][12][13][14]}

Xiong currently lives in Vancouver, where he is a professor of art at the University of British Columbia.^[15][16]

Xiong is a multidisciplinary artist who works in media as diverse as painting,^[17] drawing,^[3] photography,^[18] installation, performance,^[19] video^[18] and bronze sculpture.^[20] He is known largely for his paintings, performances and installation works. In Interior View-- Fenced Wall, performed in 1989 at the China Avant-garde exhibition in Beijing, he painted images of a fence on paper and onto his clothing and performed with his face painted in pantomime-style.^{[19][21][22][23]} He has also done numerous similarly titled works on paper.^[24][25][26]

2020 – Gu Xiong: The Remains of a Journey, Centre A Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art and Canton-sardine

2017 – Gu Xiong: Migration, The Galaxy Museum of Contemporary Art, Chongqing, China

2017 – Pins, R Space, Vancouver, British Columbia.

2016 – A River of Migration, a mixed media installation, at the San Juan Islands of Museum of Art, Friday Harbor, Washington, US.

2014 – Gu Xiong; a journey exposed, Gordon Smith Gallery of Canada, North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada^[27]

2013 – Chongqing 5 – A Room Filled with Memories (Gu Xiong/Sheng Hua), ATELIER AM ECK, Himmelgeister Str. 107E. Düsseldorf, Germany

2012–13 -Invisible in the Light, Boya Art Museum, Central China Nomal University, Wuhan, China.

2012 – Coquitlam Waterscapes, Evergreen Art Gallery, Coquitlam, British Columbia. Canada

2012 – Waterscapes: Reframed, the Reach Gallery Museum Abbotsford, Abbotsford, Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada

2011 – Waterscapes: Migration along the Vancouver Island, Fraser and Yangzi Rivers, Nanaimo Art Gallery

2010 – Waterscapes, solo exhibition at the Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, British Columbia

2008 – Gu Xiong/Yang Shu, Beijing Center for the Arts at Legation Quarter, Beijing, China

2008 – Red River, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg Manitoba, Canada.

2006 – Toronto: I Am Who I Am, a photo installation at the St. Patrick Subway Station, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

2005 – Shifting, Diane Farris Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

2004 – Beyond Vision, Chongqing Art Museum, Chongqing, China

2004 – Here is What I Mean – Gu Xiong and Xu Bing, Museum London, London, Ontario, Canada

2003 – Small, medium, large, and Extra large, OBORO Gallery, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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2017 – Every. Now. Then: Reframing Nationhood, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

2017 – Rip It Up, The 2nd Changjiang International Photography and Video Biennale, Chongqing Museum of Contemporary Art, Chongqing, China.

2016 – Mountains and Rivers Without End, Artlab Gallery, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada

2016 – Mountains and Rivers, Centre for Contemporary Art, Quito and Cuenca Modern Art Museum, Cuenca, Ecuador

2015–16 – Beyond Image, Hubei Art Museum of Art, Wuhan, China

2015 – Top Time, LP Art Space, Chongqing, China

2015 – Material Future: The Architecture of Herzog & De Meuron and the Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

2015 – Home (Hyphenated Home), Centre 3 for Print and Media Arts, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

2014–15 – The Transformation of Canadian Landscape Art: Inside & Outside of being, Xi’an Art Museum, Xi’an and Today’s Art Museum, Beijing, China

2014 -15 – Alex Colville, Art gallery of Ontario, Toronto; The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

2014 – Confronting Anitya – Oriental Experience in Contemporary Art, Im Kunstraum Villa Friede, Stiftung Für Kunst und Kultur e. V., Bonn, Germany; Yuan Dian Art Museum, Beijing, China; Kunstwerk Carlshütte Internationalle Kunstausstellung NordArt 2014, Vorwerlsalle, 24782 Buedelsdorf, Deutschland, Germany.

2014 – The Source: Rethinking Water Through Contemporary Art, Roman Hall Art Centre, Brock University, St. Catharine’s, Ontario, Canada

2013 – Permanere Nell’impermanenza – Esperienza orientale e art contemporanea, Museo MAGI’900, Via Rusticana A/1, Bologna, Italy

2013 – Rivers, Lakes and Seas – Hubei International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Hubei Library Gallery, Wuhan, China

2013 – Voice of the Unseen: Chinese Independent art 1979 – Today, The Venice Biennale Parallel Exhibition, The Fondazione la Biennale di Venezia 55th International Art Exhibition, Arsenale Nord, Venice, Italy

2012 – Canadian Identity and Landscape, the Art Gallery of Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

2012 – Downstream: Reimagining Water, Concourse Gallery, Emily Carr University of Art & Design, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

2011 – Only when the Shades of Night Begin to Gather, AHVA Library Gallery, UBC, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

2011 – Revolutionizing Cultural Identity: Photography and the Changing Face of Immigration, Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

2010 – Three Voices, OrganHaus Art Space, Chongqing, China

2010 – Border Zones: New Art Across Cultures, Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

2010 – Do You See What I Mean? An exhibition of photographic works from the collection of the Canada

Council Art Bank conceived to coincide with X Ottawa Photography Festival and Culture Days, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

2010 – Made in Canada, Shenkman Arts Centre, Ottawa School of Art, Orleans, Ontario, Canada

2009 – Documents of China/Avant-Garde Exhibition, Wall Gallery, Beijing, China

2009 – British Columbia Scene, National Arts Centre, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

2008 – Art Is Nothing – 798 Art Festival, 798 Art District, Beijing, China

2008 – Revolutionizing Cultural Identity, Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester, Michigan, US

2007 – Post Avant-garde Chinese Contemporary Art – Four Directions of the New Era, Anting House, Hong Kong, China

2007 – Gui Zhou 3rd Biennale, Gui Yang Art Museum, Gui Yang, China