Chen Xiaoguo sees painting as an action, a rumination on images nowadays. For him, the images people receive in everyday life are the collusion of media and image producers. He captures and exposes this mechanism with his paintings. With the intention of creating an atlas of human beings without borders, He selects images from the Internet and his life around. By giving the images bright and ambiguous tones, he makes the paintings visually equal to the seductive nature of the gaze.
Chen Xiaoguo (b. 1990) was born in Hubei, China. Currently he works and lives in Shanghai. Graduated from Hubei Academy of Fine Arts with a Bachelor’s degree in Sculpture and a Master’s degree in Experimental Art at Central Academy of Fine Arts, China. His solo exhibition include: Children of The World, Gallery Func, Shanghai, China,2023;Residents, Magician Space, Beijing,2022; Before Sunrise, Winetail, Beijing, 2021. His main group exhibitions include: An Average Comet, Harkawik, New York,2024; Mille Plateaux, Suhe Haus, ShangHai,2023;Indoor Weather, Design Spring, Caochangdi, Beijing, 2022; It’s A Joke, Arch Gallery, Changsha, 2021; The Future of the Present, Gallery Yang, Beijing, 2017; Are You Normal?, Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing, 2016; Somewhere Only We Know, KWM Art Center and UCCA, Beijing, 2016.
