Zheng Guogu
the winner of 2006 Chinese Contemporary Art Reward
1970 Born in Yangjiang, Guangdong province
1992 Graduated from the printmaking department of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts.
Lives and works in Yangjiang, Guangdong province.
Solo Exhibitions
2008 Zheng Guogu: Commemorative Plaque 2008: Lehman Brothers Gate, Art Basel Miami Beach 2008
“Factory",Tang Contemporary Art Center , Beijing
Hundred-Year-Old Tree Blooms Again, Recent Works by Zheng Guogu, CHAMBERS FINE ART, New York
2007 Zheng Guogu, Barbara Gross Gallery, German
HONG KONG， Surprise Urban Discoveries, New Works by Zheng Guogu, HONG KONG
“Basel”: New Paintings by Zheng Guogu, Switzerland
2006 Mouse Cow Tiger Hare Dragon Snake (Cooperation with Yangjiang Group), Beijing
2005 “Puzzle”—It is from Yangjiang, Grace Alexander Contemporary Art Gallery, Switzerland
2004 Zheng Guogu-My home is your museum, Vitamin Creative Space, Guang Zhou
2003 Photo works 1997-2000, ShanghART, Shanghai
2002 Are you going to enjoy calligraphy or measure blood pressure? Shanghai (together with Sha Yeya, Chen Zaiyan, Sun Qinglin)
2001 Zheng Guogu—The compressing world Yang Jiang Guang Dong
2000 Zheng Guogu – More Dimensional Caaw, Beijing
Zheng Guogu – More Dimensional in Shanghai at BizArt Space, Shanghai
1998 Sixteen of the Ten Thousand Customers and other Works Beijing Photo Gallery, Beijing
Group Exhibitions
2009 Art Gallery, Art 40 Basel, Basel
The Shop at CIGE, Beijing, China
2008 Christian Dior & Chinese Artists,The Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
Can art do more, the Israel museum, Israel
Sprout from White Nights, Bonniers Konsthall，Stockholm, Sweden
Farewell to Post-Colonialism,The Third Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
China Gold, Musee Maillol, Fondation Dina Vierny, Paris
Our Future: The Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation Collection, UCCA –Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, Pig, Art Statements,Art 39 Basel, Basel
Pine Tree Garden, Art Unlimited, Art 39 Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Exhibition series third about artistic phenomena and situations since 1985:Guangzhou Station--Special,Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
2007 2007 New Brave Worlds, Walker Art Centre, U.S.A
Documenta 12, Kassel, Germany
Art Statements,Art 38 Basel, Basel
China Welcomes You ...Desires, Struggles, New Identities, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz
The Real Thing: contemporary art from China, Tate Modern Liverpool (March 30 to June 10, 2007)
2006 It’s all right, Hangzhou
CHAOS CITIES, Beijing
“Accumulation--Canton Express Next Stop”, Beijing
City in Progress, Live from Zhang Jiang, Shanghai
TWELVE, Shanghai
surplus value, Beijing
Infiltration • Idylls and Visions - the second Contemporary Ink-wash Space, Guang Zhou
take down, Beijing
Solo Exhibition, Shanghai
Through Popular Expression, Of the University of Central England in Birmingham (UCE), UK
Popular Expression, Het Domein Museum,Sittard,Holland
Guangzhou – Cantones Artists in the Sigg Collection, Kunstmuseum Bern,Switzerland
2005 The Second Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou
“Black Extreme Vigorous Figurative”, Shenzhen
“Out of Sight”, Amsterdam
“Follow me! Chinese art at the threshold of the new millennium”, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
' Living in Interesting Times— A Decade of New Chinese Photography', Israel Museum of Photography Tel Hai, Israel
2004 Past in Reverse: Contemporary Art of East Asia, San Diego Museum of Art
the Exhibition of Express Mail Service, Shanghai
2004 March 20th - May 30th, ALL UNDER HEAVEN, Ancient and contemporary Chinese art, The Collection of the Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation, MuHKA (Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp), Antwerp, Belgium
All under heaven, MuHKA (Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp) and KMSKA (Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Antwerp), Belgium
A l1ouest du sud de l1est，Center of Contemporary Art, Sète/Villa Arson in Nice,France
Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video From China, ICP International Center of Photography, New York
2003 The Fifth System: Public Art in the Age of "Post - Planning", Overseas Chinese Town, Shenzhen
Fabricated Paradises, Le Parvis Centre of Contemporary Art, France
"Zooming into Focus" - Chinese Contemporary Photography from the Haudenschild Collection, San Diego State University & San Diego Museum of Art
50th Biennale di Venezia, (Canton Express), Venezia, Italy
2002 Fan Mingzhen & Fan Mingzhu (Twin exhibition) - Glad to meet, Jin Sha Jiang Rd., Shanghai
Urban Creation, 4th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
Paris-Pekin, Espace Pierre Cardin, Paris
Too Much Flavour, 3H Art Center, Shanghai
Asianvible:Asian Contemporary Art ESPAI D'ART CONTEMPORANI DE CASTELLÓ
To see The calligraphy or to measure the blood pressure, Yang Jiang
Guangju Biennual Korea
2001 Hot Pot Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway
Photo Festival Naarden Naarden city, Holland
City Slang He Xiang Ning Art Museum,Shen Zhen
Chinese Photography Show Passage de Retz, Paris
Cross Pessures Oulu Art Museum; Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland
HangZhou New medium art festival China Fine Art Academy,Hang Zhou
living in time-29 Contemporary Artists from China Hamburger Bahnhof,
Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin
Art Forum Berlin
Chengdu Biennual Cheng Du
2000 clash! 100 artists Canvas International Art, Amsterdam, Holland
Individual and Society in Art - A Collection of Works of Art By Eleven Chinese Artists Guangdong Museum of Art
Cities of the 21st Century: Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen Bauhaus Dessau, Germany
The Sun Rises in the East – the current atistic scene in Asia Rencontres internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France
Post Material - Interpretatians of Everyday Life by Contemporary Chinese Artists Red Gate Watch Tower, Beijing
Fuck Off Xi Suzhouhe 1133, Shanghai
Portraits, Figures, Couples and Groups from the Mcaf Foundation, BizArt, Shanghai
1999 Post-Sense Sensibility Alien Bodies & Delusion Basement third ring road, Beijing
Innovations Part I China Art Archives and Warehouse, Beijing
Changing Views Kunsthal Hof 88 Almelo, Holland
Art For Sale Huaihai Zhonglu, Shanghai
International Photography Biennale Centre de la Imagen, Mexico city
The Other X/Change Galerie Objektiv und Edition, Cologne, Germany
Concepts, Colors and Passions China Art Archives and Warehouse, Beijing
Shanghai Art Fair Shanghai
Unveiled Reality – Contemporary Photography Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok; Art Beatus Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Beautiful Like Materialism Shanghai; Beijing; Nanjing; Honking
Intimate Moments Hanart Gallery, Honking
Hsin: a visible spirit – Contemporary Photography from the People’s Republic of China Cypress College Photography Galleries; BC Space Gallery, USA
Cities on the Move 4 Hayward Gallery, London
Love: Chinese Contemporary Photography & Video International Arts Festival Tachikawa, Japan
Cities on the Move 5 Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
Modern Chinese Art Foundation Caermerklooster, Gent, Belgium
1998 Biennale de l'imago Paris 98 Centre national de la photographie, Paris
Site art project Walking Museum in Takashimaya, Tokyo
Cities on the Move 2 capcMusee, Bordeaux, France
Taipei Biennal Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan
Confused… Kunst Rai 98, Art Amsterdam, Holland
Photography as Concept - 4. Internationale Foto-Triennale Esslingen Esslingen, Germany
Guarene Arte Turin, Italy
The Corruptionists Basement, third ring road, Beijing
Cities on the Move 3 P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
Images Telling Stories Shanghai
1997 Contemporary Photo Art from P. R. China Neue Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin Staedtische Kunstsammlungen, Chemnitz Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Germany
Cities on the Move 2 Secession, Vienna, Austria
1996 Possibility - Installation exhibition with the Big Tail Elephant Group, Guangzhou
1994 The Third Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art Documentation Library of East China Normal University, Shanghai
Hanmo New Art Special Show, Guangzhou
No Room - Installation exhibition with the Big Tail Elephant Group No.14 Sanyu Rd, Guangzhou