Guo Cheng (b.1988 Beijing) is an artist currently living and working in Shanghai. Guo works predominantly in sculpture and installation, and combines video, photography, and other mixed media. His practice mainly focuses on exploring the mutual impact and influence between established and emerging technologies and individuals in the context of culture and social life. In recent years, his work has centered around ubiquitous artificial objects and infrastructure, integrating themes such as the Anthropocene and the Chinese internet. Guo Cheng's works often use humorous yet composed tone to link grand issues with seemingly arbitrary objects and to provide critical perspectives for discussion.
His recent solo exhibitions include: “The Park”,Sifang Art Museum(2022), “Almost Unmeant”, Magician Space (2020), “Down to Earth", Canton Gallery(2019). Group exhibitions include: Shanshui: Echoes and Signals, M+ Museum(2024), The Larva of Time，ICA at NYU Shanghai(2024), Elemental Constellations, Macalline Center of Art(2023), Macao International Art Biennale: The Statistics of Fortune, Macao Museum of Art(2023), Chengdu Biennale:Time Gravity, Chengdu Art Museum(2023),The 4th Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art：Being Theoria , Zhejiang Art Museum(2022), The Pieces I am, UCCA Edge(2022), Time After Time: The Polychronicity in Blockchain, Hyundai Motorstudio(2022), Spinning East Asia Series I: A Compass in Hand, Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile(2021), ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Machine Learning Human Dreams, DEUTSCHES HYGIENE-MUSEUM(2021), BOOMERANG - OCAT Biennale, OCAT Shenzhen(2021), and others.
He obtained New Century Art Foundation "Art Production and Exhibition Support Program”， Beijing (2022), Porsche "Young Chinese Artist of the Year" Award, Shanghai(2021), Ars Electronica Honorary Mentions, Linz (2020); CAC://DKU Research & Creation Fellowship, Shanghai (2020); STARTS Prize Nomination, Linz (2020); the Digital Earth fellowship (2018-2019); the Special Jury Prize of Huayu Youth Award, Sanya (2018); the Bio-Art & Design Award, The Hague (2017).
Guo Cheng worked as Executive Director at Chronus Art Center, Shanghai (2015-2017), the visiting researcher at Dept. Environment & Health, Vrije University, Amsterdam (2017) and has been teaching at the College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University, Shanghai since 2013.
Guo's works are collected by M+ (Hong Kong), Power Station of Art(Shanghai), Sigg Collection (Switzerland) and International Art & Science Research Institute (China), among others.
郭城1988年生于北京，现工作生活于上海。他的艺术实践着眼于既有/新兴科技对社会与文化方面的冲击与影响，以及置身其中的个体与社会生活之间的关系。近年来，他的工作围绕着泛人造物和基础设施展开，并结合人类世、（中国）互联网等主题。郭城的作品常以雕塑/装置的形式呈现，他经常使用幽默又冷峻的形式语言，将宏大议题与看似随意的日常物品相连结，为想象和讨论提供了批判性的视角。
郭城近期的个展有：“公园”，四方当代美术馆(2022),“近乎无意”，魔金石空间(2020)；“地气”，广州画廊(2019)。群展包括：山鸣水应，M+美术馆(2024), 时间的幼虫，上纽ICA(2024), 成都双年展(2023)，澳门国际艺术双年展(2023)，元素小说，美凯龙艺术中心(2023),集光片羽, UCCA Edge(2022)，杭州现为艺术三年展：缓存在(2022)，飞出个未来：区块链中的时间多重性, 现代汽车文化中心(2022), 再纺东亚系列一：手中的罗盘,六厂纺织文化艺术馆(2021), AI-学人做梦的机器，德国卫生博物馆(2021), 飞去来器--OCAT双年展，OCAT深圳馆(2021)等。
郭城曾获得新世纪当代艺术基金会“艺术家创作及展览资助计划”，北京（2022）、保时捷“中国青年艺术家双年评选”奖, 上海（2021）、奥地利电子艺术奖荣誉奖，林茨（2020）、STARTS奖提名，林茨（2020）、CAC://DKU研究与创作学术奖金，上海（2020）、数字地球学术奖金（2018-2019）、华宇青年奖评委会特别奖，三亚（2018）、生物艺术奖，海牙（2017)。
郭城曾任上海新时线媒体艺术中心执行总监（2015-2017），荷兰自由大学环境与健康学院访问研究员（2017），并从2013年起兼职任教于上海同济大学至今。
郭城的作品已被香港 M+ 博物馆、上海当代艺术博物馆、瑞士希克收藏，以及中国国际艺术与科学研究院等机构和个人收藏。
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个展 Solo Show
2022
The Park, Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing
公园，四方当代美术馆，南京
2020
Almost Unmeant, Magician Space, Beijing
近乎无意，魔金石空间，北京
2019
Down to Earth, Canton Gallery, Guangzhou
地气，广州画廊，广州
部分群展 Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
Wuhan Biennale: Urban Fluidity, Wuhan Art Museum, Wuhan
武汉双年展：城市流体, 武汉美术馆, 武汉
Solid Sedimentation: An Archive of minerals, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing
固态沉积：有关矿物的存档，中央美术学院美术馆，北京
The Larva of Time, ICA at NYU Shanghai, Shanghai
时间的幼虫，上纽ICA，上海
Shanshui: Echoes and Signals, M+ Museum, Hongkong
山鸣水应，M+美术馆，香港
STUDY II: Natural History,Alternative Knowledge and Deep Learning， ShanghArt, Beijing
学习Ⅱ：博物学、另类知识和深度学习，香格纳画廊，北京
The inner side of the wind, Gallery weekend Beijing, Beijing
风的内侧，画廊周北京，北京
2023
Elemental Constellations, Macalline Center of Art, Beijing
元素小说，美凯龙艺术中心，北京
Motion is Action: 35 Years of Chinese Media Art, BY ART MATTERS, Hangzhou
动为行：中国媒体艺术35年，天目里美术馆，杭州
Macao International Art Biennale: The Statistics of Fortune, Macao Museum of Art, Macao
澳门国际艺术双年展：命运的统计学，澳门艺术博物馆，澳门
Are you for real? , Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, online exhibition
你是真的吗？， 外交关系研究所，线上展览
Chengdu Biennale:Time Gravity, Chengdu Art Museum, Chengdu
成都双年展：时间引力， 成都市美术馆，成都
Topologies of the Real, Shenzhen Museum of Contemporary Art and Urban Planning, Shenzhen
真实的拓扑，深圳市当代艺术与城市规划馆，深圳
Cloud Sculpture, Song Art Museum, Beijing
云雕塑，松美术馆，北京
SIGG : Chinese Contemporary Art from the Sigg Collection, SONGEUN Art Space, Seoul
希克收藏：中国当代艺术, 松隐艺术空间，首尔
Messengers, Surplus Space, Wuhan
信使，剩余空间，武汉
2022
A Journey Through Poetry, OCAT Xi'an, Xi'an
诗之旅，OCAT西安，西安
To the Public: Please Read the Exhibition the Way One Perceives the Woods, Magician Space, Beijing
建议以看待树林的方式阅读展览, 魔金石空间，北京
Time After Time: The Polychronicity in Blockchain, Hyundai Motorstudio, Beijing
飞出个未来：区块链中的时间多重性, 现代汽车文化中心，北京
The 4th Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art：Being Theoria , Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou
第四届杭州纤维艺术三年展：缓存在, 浙江美术馆，杭州
The Planetarian, 751 International Design Festival, Beijing
置身何处，751国际设计节，北京
The Pieces I am, UCCA Edge, Shanghai
集光片羽, UCCA Edge, 上海
Shape the Future, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
改造未来，上海多伦美术馆，上海
In Solidarity with _____, OCAT Shanghai, Shanghai.
共同的____, OCAT 上海，上海
Order Copied: Changing the Reference Frame, Magician Space, Beijing
边界行走指南，魔金石空间，北京
2021
Spinning East Asia Series I: A Compass in Hand, Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile, Hongkong
再纺东亚系列一：手中的罗盘,六厂纺织文化艺术馆，香港
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Machine Learning Human Dreams, DEUTSCHES HYGIENE-MUSEUM, Dresden
AI-学人做梦的机器，德国卫生博物馆，德累斯顿
BOMMERANG - OCAT Biennale, OCAT Shenzhen, Shenzhen
飞去来器--OCAT双年展，OCAT深圳馆，深圳
The Precarious Field of Optimism: The Re-definition and Re-production of Failure, OCAT Beijing, Beijing
乐观主义的脆危之域 -- 失败的再定义与生产， OCAT北京，北京
Temporal Stack: The Deep Sensor, UP Art, Guiyang
时满时空: 深层感应，上空间，贵阳
The Long Cut, feralfile.com, online exhibition
Bamboo as Method, ICBR x GWBJ Public Sector, Shanghai
竹子作为方法，国际竹藤中心x画廊周北京公共单元，上海
Disenchantment, Explosion View, Glider VS. Airplane, G Museum, Nanjing
祛魅、爆炸图、滑翔机与飞机，金鹰美术馆，南京
We=Link: Sideways, Chronus Art Center, Shanghai
We=Link：辺，新时线媒体艺术中心，上海
2020
Terminal>_ How Do We Begin?, X museum, Beijing
终端>_ How Do We Begin?，X 美术馆，北京
a2p(V2),Online exhibition
The Eternal Network(exhibition of Transmediale 2020), Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
永恒网络，世界文化宫，柏林
Breeze and Man-made, Hongkun Museum of Art, Beijing
微风与人造之物，鸿坤美术馆，北京
Down the rabbit hole, Capsule Shanghai, Shanghai
兔子洞的尽头，胶囊上海画廊，上海
2019
The Process of Art: TOOLS AT WORK, Power Station of Art, Shanghai
平行，似存在，未完成：行进的艺术工具，上海当代艺术博物馆，上海
Notes from Pallet Town， UCCA Dune, Qinhuangdao
真新镇日志，UCCA 沙丘美术馆，秦皇岛
Deja vu， Today Art Museum, Beijing
机器人·间，今日美术馆，北京
Open Codes. Connected Bots， Chronus Art Center, Shanghai
开放代码.连接机器人，新时线媒体艺术中心，上海
Free Panorama, Shenzhen Pingshan cultural center, Shenzhen
释放全景，坪山文化聚落展览馆，深圳
Tracing the Mushroom at the End of the World, Taikang Space, Beijing
追踪末日松茸，泰康空间，北京
Baths of Cara Calla, Canton Gallery, Guangzhou
卡拉卡拉大浴场，广州画廊，广州
2018
Condition, Huayu Art Center, Sanya
前提，华宇艺术中心，三亚
Shanghai Beat, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto
魔都の鼓動，当代艺术博物馆，熊本
Machines Are Not Alone: A Machinic Trilogy, Chronus Art Center, Shanghai
机器不孤单，新时线媒体艺术中心，上海
2017
Life Time, MU Art Space, Eindhoven
Life Time, MU艺术空间，埃因霍温
All the Single Ladies(Twofold exhibition), J: Gallery, Shanghai
Allthe Single Ladies, J:画廊，上海
[dis][locate], Chronus art center, Shanghai
位错，新时线媒体艺术中心，上海
The Ecstasy of Time, HE Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen
时间的狂喜，何香凝美术馆，深圳
Jetleg Festival, ADM, Amsterdam
时差反应艺术节，ADM，阿姆斯特丹
Atypical Human, YIRI Art space, Taipei
非典人类，伊日艺术空间，台北
Apparatus Serendipity, Minority space, Beijing
装备幻奇，少数派空间，北京
2016
Shenzhen Media Art Festival, Shenzhen
深圳媒体艺术节，深圳
Reflexivity, YU Art Space, Shanghai
反身，艺席空间，上海
2015
The Ballad of Generation Y, OCAT Shanghai
Y时代之歌，OCAT，上海
Festival GAMERZ 11- Festival Des Arts Multimédia, Aix-en-Provence
GAMERZ 11媒体艺术节，普罗旺斯地区艾克斯
Imaginary Body Boundary, Digital Art Center, Taipei
想象身体边界，数位艺术中心，台北
Migrating Frontiers, Chronus Art Center, Shanghai
迁移边界，新时线媒体艺术中心，上海
Apartment Show, Open Art, Shanghai
公寓展，Open Art，上海
Curated Nail Residency Show, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Shanghai
指甲驻留计划，艺术亭台（当代艺术中心），上海
2014
Free Art Fair, Huashan 1914 Creative Park, Taipei
艺术自由日，华山1914创意园区，台北
Tomorrow's Party (in collaboration with Exhibitionists), UCCA, Beijing
明天的派对（与指甲计划-展示癖合作），尤伦斯艺术中心，北京
Nail’s Hub: Exhibitionists, Ying Space, Beijing
展示癖，应空间，北京
2013
East at West, Design Museum, Helsinki
东&西，设计博物馆，赫尔辛基
DCC International Media Art Exhibition, OCT loft B10, Shenzhen
DCC国际新媒体展，OCT B10，深圳
STRP Biennial, Klokgebouw, Eindhoven
STRP双年展，埃因霍温
2012
Get It Louder, The Orange, Sanlitun Village, Beijing
大声展，三里屯橙色大厅，北京
RCA Degree Show, Battersea, Royal College of Art, London
Paradise, Milan Salone del Mobile, Milan
WIP Show, Henry Moore Gallery, Royal College of Art, London
Awards and Grants
2022
New Century Art Foundation "Art Production and Exhibition Support Program”
新世纪当代艺术基金会“艺术家创作及展览资助计划”
2021
Porsche "Young Chinese Artist of the Year" Winner, Shanghai
保时捷“中国青年艺术家双年评选”奖，上海
2020
Honorary Mentions, Ars Electronica Interactive Art+, Linz
奥地利电子艺术奖荣誉奖(Interactive Art+)，林茨
Nomination, STARTS Prize, Linz
STARTS奖提名，林茨
CAC://DKU Research & Creation Fellowship, Shanghai
CAC://DKU 研究与创作学术奖金，上海
2018
Digital Earth Fellowship, British Council, Hivos and SIDA
数字地球学术奖金
Special Jury Prize, Huayu Youth Award, Sanya
华宇青年奖评委会特别奖，三亚
2017
“A Felicitous Neo-past", Winner, BADaward, Den Haag
“一个被恰当重塑的过往”，生物艺术奖，海牙
2016
"Future Fossils", Final List, BADaward, Den Haag
"An Apophanous Overfitting”(a part of the collective project Tulip Pyramid), Gijs Bakker Awards
2014
"Mouth Factory", Grand Prize, Free Art Fair, Taipei
“嘴工厂”，评委会大奖，艺术自由日，台北
Artist in Residency
2019
Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai
2017
BADaward, ADM Amsterdam
2014
New Channel Base, Hunan Province
Selected Events
2021
Artist talk: Tracing Hyperobjects, Institute of Creativity and Innovation, Xiamen University, Online
线上艺术家讲座：“追踪庞大之物”厦门大学创意与创新学院
2020
Artist talk at Emerging Curators Project 2020 Online, Power Station of Art, Shanghai
2020线上青策计划 艺术家分享会，上海当代艺术博物馆，上海
2019
Artist talk: The Net Wanderer- A tour of suspended Handshakes, Chronus Art Center, Shanghai
艺术家讲座：“网络游者--握手之旅”，新视线媒体艺术中心，上海
Lecture: The Anthropocene, Geology, Science Ficitionand Art, Today Art Museum, Beijing
讲座：“‘人类世’地质学、科幻和艺术创作”，今日美术馆，北京
2018
Invited talk: Can Technology solve all our problems?, Goethe Institut, Beijing
讲座：“技术是万能的吗？”，歌德学院，北京
2016
Keynote: Look into the Future: The International Forum on Interdisciplinarity and
Convergence of Techno-Art Development
Venue: Taipei Artist Village, Bamboo room
Supervisor: Ministry of Culture, Taiwan
Organizer: Digital Art Foundation
Co-organizer: Taipei Artist Village, Goethe Institut
Invited talk: Public talk with Guo Cheng
SymbioticA, Perth, WA
Workshop: Feast Grotesque, Chronus Art Center, Shanghai
Collaboration with: Pei-ying Lin
Workshop: Body Sonification, Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai
Collaboration with: fito_segrera
2015
Lecture: Speculation on Alternative Futures, Nanjing University of the Arts, Nanjing
Lecture: Design for Possible Futures, College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University, Shanghai
Invited talk: Man-Machine, Bio-fiction Festival, Taipei
2014
Bio-Art Workshop: Bio- fiction of Electrophysiology, Shih Chien University, Taipei
Collaboration with: Taiwan Bio-Art Community
Bio-Art Workshop: Why and How we Kill a C. auratus for Scientific Purposes
Collaboration with: Taiwan Bio-Art Community, Dr. GUO Guangpu, Associate Prof. College of Life Science and Technology, Tongji University
2013
Invited talk, Beyond the body, Tongji University, Shanghai
Bio-Design Forum: Possible Futures of Evolution, Tongji University, Shanghai
Guest: Dr. GUO Guangpu, Associate Prof. College of Life Science and Technology, Tongji University
Dr. YE Kai, Associate Prof. College of Humanities, Tongji University
Education
2012
MA, Royal College of Art, London
2010
BE, Tongji University, Shanghai