GUO JIN | 郭晋
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- Lives in: Chongqing
Guo Jin (b. 1964) was born in Chengdu, in Sichuan Province, and attended the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, graduating from the oil painting department in 1990. His paintings frequently take children as his subject matter in a juxtaposition of youth with China's own development, and idealism lost. After graduating in the early '90s, he showed modestly within China, significantly in Guangzhou Biennale's 1992 oil painting exhibition, in which many of his Sichuan peers also showed works. Since then, as art institutions and infrastructure have grown within China, he has participated in an increasing number of shows, often with his brother, the artist Guo Wei. His bold use of color and skill at creating silk-screen-like texture in oil have garnered him the attention of many gallerists and collectors. He lives and works in Chongqing and Beijing.
A WORD FROM THE ARTIST
Changes in our lives lead to dreams based on nostalgia, as opposed to a vision for the future. The backwards-looking nature of our ideals causes us to look at them as if they were a beautiful work of art. It is like living in a world intermingled with fantasy and reality. The past becomes our own fairytale, evoking a long-lost feeling of being alive. Although it is brief and illusory, this nostalgia drives people to constantly collect from the past, never realizing the beauty of true idealism.
CURRICULUM VITAE
| 1964 | Born in Chengdu |
| 1990 | Bachelor's Degree in Oil Painting from the Sichuan Fine Arts Academy |
| EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2011 | "Unable Absence"，Chinese Contemporary Art, Wenxuan Art Museum |
| Solo exhibition, Singapore Moca | |
| 2010 | "Reshaping history: Chinart from 2000 to 2009", National Metting Centre, Beijing |
| "And_writers", 2010 Nanjing Biennale, Jiangsu Art Museum, Nanjing | |
| 2009 | "Child’s Play" Recent Paintings by Guo Jin, Gibsone Jessop Gallery, Toronto |
| “Time Lag” Chinese Contemporary Art, Linda Art Centre, Beijing | |
| Guowei and Guojin’s New Works, Dolores de Sierra Gallery, Madrid | |
| 2008 | “Appearance” Guo Jin 1992-2007, Solo Exhibition, Museum National, Jakarta |
| Solo exhibition, SHiNE Art Space, Shanghai | |
| "Asia in Harmony", The 23rd Asian International Art Exhibition, Guangzhou | |
| “The Sichuan Movement”, National Museum, Jakarta | |
| Solo Exhibition, Olyvia Oriental, London | |
| “Acting the Fool”, Gallery TN, Beijing | |
| "Faces and Faces", Dolores de Sierra Gallery, Madrid, Spain | |
| “Asian Contemporary”, Rudolf Budja Gallery, Salzburg Austria | |
| "Don't Look Back", Pacific Art Group, Los Angeles, USA | |
| 2007 | “From New Figurative Image to New Painting”, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing |
| “Figurative Possibilities” Guo Wei and Guo Jin’s New Works, Goedhuis Contemporary, New York | |
| "Black, White and Gray--an Active Cultural Choice", Today Art Museum, Beijing | |
| Solo show, Kwai Fung Hin Art Gallery, Hong Kong | |
| 2006 | Solo show, Serieuze Zaken Studio, Amsterdam |
| "Ex-Change", An Exhibition of Asian Contemporary Art, Sculpture Square Singapore | |
| "Unclear and Clearness", Heyri Art Foundation, South Korea | |
| "The Naked Truth", Tang Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand | |
| The International Asian Art Fair, Now York, USA | |
| “12345”, Yibo gallery, Shanghai | |
| 2005 | Solo exhibition, LIMN Gallery, San Francisco, USA |
| Solo exhibition, Chinese Contemporary, London, UK | |
| "The Review", LA Times Gallery, Los Angeles, USA | |
| "Shine Art Space Makes Its Debut in Shanghai", Shine Art Space, Shanghai | |
| 2004 | "In Between", Tang Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand |
| "Chinart", Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome, Italy | |
| "Chinart", Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary | |
| "Shaping", Yibo Gallery, Shanghai | |
| "Posers", Courtyard Gallery, Beijing | |
| 2003 | Solo exhibition, Casa Garden Orient Foundation, Macau |
| Solo exhibition, Chinese Contemporary Art Gallery, London, UK | |
| "Chongqing Chilis", Trisolini Gallery, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, USA | |
| 2002 | "China Art", Museum Kuppersmuhle Sammlung Grothe, Duisburg |
| The Paintings of Guo Jin and Guo Wei, Goedhuis Contemporary, New York, USA | |
| Guo Jin and Guo Wei, New Works Exhibition, Courtyard Gallery, Beijing | |
| Triennial of Chinese Arts, Guangzhou Art Museum, Guangzhou | |
| "On the Edge of the Millennium: New Art from China", Goedhuis Contemporary, New York, USA | |
| 2001 | Working residency at the Delfina Art Studio, London, UK |
| "Chongqing Chilis", Kultur-Bahnhof, Kassel, Germany | |
| "China Art Now!", Singapore Art Museum, Singapore | |
| The First Biennale of Chengdu, Modern Art Museum, Chengdu | |
| 2000 | "Door of the Century: 1979-1999 Chinese Contemporary Art", Modern Art Museum, Chengdu |
| Shanghai Art Museum Collection Exhibition, Shanghai | |
| Guo Wei and Guo Jin - New Works, Courtyard Gallery, Beijing | |
| "1+1", Recent Works by Zeng Fanzhi and Guo Jin, Schoeni Art Gallery, Hong Kong | |
| "Between the Lines", Mosman Art Gallery and Community Centre, Sydney, Australia | |
| 1999 | "Art China!", LIMN Gallery, San Francisco, USA |
| 1999 Invitational Academic Exhibition, Upriver Gallery, Chengdu | |
| Collection Exhibition, Dongyu Art Gallery, Shenyang | |
| Solo exhibition, Chinese Contemporary, London, UK | |
| 1998 | Solo exhibition, Chinese Contemporary, London, UK |
| "Confused…Reckoning with the Future" Contemporary Chinese Paintings and Photography, Amsterdam, The Netherlands | |
| "5000+10" Contemporary Art from Mainland China, Bilbao, Spain | |
| "Made in China" Contemporary Chinese Paintings, Nikolaus Sonne Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany | |
| Asian Avant-garde, Christie’s, London, UK | |
| Guo Wei and Guo Jin, Flanders Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, USA | |
| The Guo Brothers, Soobin Gallery, Singapore | |
| 1997 | "Faces and Bodies of the Middle Kingdom: Chinese Art of the 90’s", Gallery Rudolfinum, Prague |
| The First Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Art, Hong Kong Art Centre | |
| "Quotation Marks", Singapore Art Museum, Singapore | |
| "8+8-1, Selected Paintings by 15 Contemporary Artists", Schoeni Art Gallery, Hong Kong | |
| 1996 | "CHINA!", Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany |
| "Dream Shares—Five Artists from Mainland China", Jamaica Art Centre, New York, USA | |
| The First Exhibition of the China Oil Painting Society, China National Gallery, Beijing | |
| 1995 | "The Urban Idealist—New Art from Sichuan", Schoeni Art Gallery, Hong Kong |
| The History of Chinese Oil Painting Exhibition from Realism to Post-Modernism, Gallerie Theoremes, Brussels | |
| The Third Annual Exhibition of Chinese Oil Painting, China National Gallery, Beijing | |
| 1994 | "The Strange Environment ’94", Chongqing |
| 1992 | "Oil Paintings from the 90’s", The Guangzhou Biennale, Guangzhou |
| COLLECTIONS | |
| The Estella Collection, New York | |
| Casa Garden Orient Foundation, Macau | |
| Singapore Art Museum, Singapore | |
| Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai | |
| Upriver Art Gallery, Chengdu | |
| Dongyu Art Gallery, Shenyang | |
| Stiftung fur Kunst und Kultur, Bonn | |
| The Olenska Foundation, Geneva | |
| Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen | |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | |
| 2008 | Schurian, Walter. From the Kindenschema to an Image of Man: Guo jin’s Willfully Different World of Imagery. Jakarta: National Museum, exhibition catalogue |
| Pi, Li. Appearance: Guo Jin’s Return. Jakarta: National Museum, exhibition catalogue | |
| 2007 | Zhai Yongming. Being Competent in the Beauty of Joy. Hong Kong: Kwai Fung Art Publishing House |
| Callisto Searle. Things that Change, Things that Don’t. Hong Kong: Kwai Fung Art Publishing House | |
| 2004 | Schurian, Walter. From the Kindenschema to an Image of Man: Guo Jin’s Wilfully Different World of Imagery. San Francisco: LIMN Gallery, exhibition catalogue |
| 2002 | Goedhuis, Michael. On the Edge of the Millennium: New Art from China, New York, London: Goedhuis Contemporary |
| Thompson, Melissa Walt. Children of China: The Paintings of Guo Jin and Guo Wei, New York: Goedhuis Contemporary, exhibition catalogue | |
| 2001 | Dream 2001: Contemporary Chinese Art Exhibition, London: The Red Mansion Ltd |
| 2000 | New Works: Guo Wei and Guo Jin. Beijing: The Courtyard Gallery |
| 1995 | Schoeni, Manfred. History of Chinese Oil Painting: From Realism to Post-Modernism. Brussels: Schoeni Art Gallery Ltd. |
| Li Xianting. Guo Wei and Guo Jin's 'Children | |
