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Guo Cheng (b.1988) is an artist currently lives and works in Shanghai. He was graduated from MA Design Products at Royal College of Art (London, UK) and obtained his BE in Industrial Design at Tongji University (Shanghai, China). His practice mainly focuses on exploring the interrelation between mainstream/emerging technologies and individuals under the context of culture and social life.  In recent years, his practice has dealt with themes such as the Anthropocene and Second Nature, digitalized interobjectivity, and infrastructures and ideologies behind. Guo Cheng’s works often use humorous yet calm plastic language, linking grand issues with seemingly arbitrary objects, and providing critical perspectives for discussion and imagination.

His recent solo exhibitions include: The Park, Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing (2022); Almost Unmeant, Magician Space, Beijing, China (2020); Down to Earth, Canton Gallery, Guangzhou, China (2019).

Major group exhibitions include: The Larva of Time, Institute of Contemporary Arts at NYU Shanghai, Shanghai, CN (2024); Shanshui: Echoes and Signals, M+, Hong Kong (2024); Elemental Constellations, Macalline Center of Art, Beijing (2023); Motion is Action – 35 Years of Chinese Media Art, By Art Matters, Hangzhou (2023); The Statistics of Fortune – Macao International Art Biennale, Macao Museum of Art, Macao (2023); Cloud Sculpture – The First Invitational Exhibition, Song Art Museum, Beijing (2023); Messengers, Surplus Space, Wuhan (2023); 2022 Beijing Biennial, National Base for International Cultural Base, Beijing (2022); A Journey Through Poetry, OCAT Xi’an (2022); Time After Time: The Polychronicity in Blockchain, Hyundai Motorstudio Beijing, Beijing (2022); The Pieces I Am, UCCA Edge, Shanghai (2022); In Solidarity with___ OCAT x KADIST, OCAT Shanghai, Shanghai(2022); Shape the Future-The 8^thDuolun Youth Art Exhibition, Shanghai Doulun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai(2022); Order Copied: Changing the Reference Frame, Magician Space, Beijing, China(2022); BOOMERANG–OCAT Biennale 2021, OCAT Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China (2021); Spinning East Asia Series I: A Compass in Hand, Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile, Hong Kong, China(2021); Machine Learning Human Dreams, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany (2021); Disenchantment, Exploded View, Glider vs. Airplane, G Museum, Nanjing (2021); We=Link: Sideways, A Chronus Art Center (CAC), Shanghai (2020); How Do We Begin?, X Museum, Beijing, China (2020); The Eternal Network (exhibition of Transmediale 2020), HKW, Berlin, Germany (2020); The Process of Art: TOOLS AT WORK, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China (2019); Notes from Pallet Town, UCCA Dune, Qinhuangdao, China (2019); Deja vu, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China (2019); Open Codes. Connected Bots, Chronus Art Center, Shanghai, China (2019); Free Panorama, Pingshan Culture Center, Shenzhen, China (2019); Tracing the Mushroom at the End of the World, Taikang Space, Beijing, China (2019); Shanghai Beat, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan (2018); Machines Are Not Alone: A Mechanic Trilogy, Chronus Art Center, Shanghai (2018); Life Time, Mu Art Space, Eindhoven (2017); The Ecstasy of Time, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen (2017) etc..

He obtained New Century Art Foundation “Art Production and Exhibition Support Program” (Beijing, 2022); 2020-2021 Porsche “Young Chinese Artist of the Year” (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).