Guo Hongwei

Born in 1982 in Chengdu (China), Guo Hongwei is a Chinese artist based in Beijing (China). He studied painting at the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute (Chongqing, China), graduating in 2004. His artistic inspiration comes from the work of Edgar Degas, whose paintings he believes embody spirituality, retaining certain academic qualities while avoiding convention. Renowned for his watercolor paintings, in which he perfectly reproduces the details offered by nature, Guo Hongwei seeks out the material essence of the objects he depicts. Exhibited in museums around the world (Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, 2006; Pacific Heritage Museum, San Francisco, 2009; Tampa Museum of Art & Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, 2014; Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California, 2015), his works are also shown in international fairs and galleries (Frieze, New York, 2014; Frieze, London, 2015 : Paris Asian Art Faire, Paris, 2019) since his first monographic exhibition Dissolution of Memory in 2007 at Connoisseur Art Gallery and 82 Republic (Hong Kong, China).