Xiong Gu

Gu Xiong, is a multimedia artist from China, and Professor in the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory at the University of British Columbia. He works with painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, photography, video, digital imagery, text, performance art, and installation.  Gu Xiong’s practice centres on the creation of a hybrid identity arising from the integration of different cultural origins. Through the critical angle of visual art, his work encompasses sociology, geography, economics, politics, and literature, as well as the dynamics of globalization, local culture and identity politics, through which he constitutes an amalgamation of multiple cultural histories and seeks to create an entirely new identity. The construction of a new level of being is Gu Xiong’s primary interest.

Gu Xiong received his BFA and MFA degrees from the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in Chongqing, China. In Canada, he twice attended the Banff Centre for the Arts as artist-in-residence, in addition to many other colleges and universities in Canada, the United States, and China. He has served on the Canada Council Governor General’s Awards Jury for Visual Arts, Media Art and Architecture; the Canada Council Visual Art Grant Jury; the Seattle Arts Commission Jury; the BC Arts Council Jury; and the Vancouver Foundation Jury.

Exhibition: The Remains of a Journey (2020-2021)

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