Xiaoguo Chen 陈小果

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Xiaoguo Chen, born in 1990 in Hubei Province, earned his Bachelor's degree from the Sculpture Department of Hubei Institute of Fine Arts and his Master's degree from the Experimental Art School of the Central Academy of Fine Arts. He currently lives and works in Shanghai.
 
During his time in Beijing, Xiaoguo Chen began to reconsider the notions of the local and the exotic. The experience of encountering diverse ethnicities coexisting in the same temporal and spatial context led him to envision a broader universality and hybridity. He initiated a painting practice primarily focused on foreign subjects, gradually incorporating portraits sourced from society and the internet—in other words, any human images encountered in daily life became potential subjects for his work.
 
Through painterly adaptation and reinterpretation, Xiaoguo Chen strips the original images of their harsh and hyper-realistic qualities. Using ambiguous tones and brushstrokes, he reinterprets the figures within contemporary visual systems, employing a soft aesthetic to place the images in a more approachable viewing context. This achieves an equality in both aesthetics and gaze, ultimately pointing toward a borderless atlas of humanity.
 

b. 1990, Hubei, China.

Lives and works in Shanghai, China.

 

Education

2018  MFA in Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, CN

2012  BA in Sculpture, Hubei Institute of Fine Arts, Hubei, CN

 

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2024  Resident, Aranya art center, Hebei, CN

2023  Children of The World, Gallery Func, Shanghai, CN

2023  Resident, Y-Space, Shanghai, CN

2022  Resident, Magician Space, Beijing, CN

2021  Before Sunrise, Winetall, Beijing, CN

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024  An Average Comet, Harkawik, New York, USA

2023  Mille Plateaux, Suhe Haus, ShangHai, CN

2022  Indoor Weather, Design Spring, Cao Chang Di, Beijing, CN

2021  It’s A Joke, Arch Gallery, Changsha, CN

2017  The Future of the Present, Gallery Yang, Beijing, CN

2016  Are You Normal, Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing, CN

2016  Somewhere only We Know, KWM art center and UCCA, Beijing, CN

 

Projects

2017  Nation Gallery, China International Exhibition Center, Beijing, CN