GUAN WEI featured in 'Passage and Echo' exhibition at Vermilion Art

GUAN WEI is currently featured in Passage and Echo: A Dialogue Across the Century that recently opened at Vermilion Art in Sydney, alongside the works of Sidney Nolan.

In this captivating exhibition, Guan Wei reimagines Australia’s iconic Ned Kelly in a Chinese landscape—where his armour and silence merge with mountains formed by ink and cloud. The exhibition brings to life a vision that began when Guan Wei, at just 18, first encountered Nolan’s Ned Kelly and imagined this unexpected cultural fusion.

Now, decades later, that vision has become a powerful conversation across time and borders, reflecting the rich potential of cross-cultural exchange.

More information can be found here.

GUO JIAN & GUAN WEI Feature in Exhibition at Gallery Lane Cove

GUO JIAN, The Beauty No.6 [detail], 2024, Inkjet pigment print, Edition of 3, 116 x 83 cm.

Celebrating Lunar New Year 🐍

Guo Jian and Guan Wei are both featured in the beautiful exhibition In the Mood for Love 良宵 at Gallery Lane Cove, guest curated by Abigail Kim and Dr. Yeqin Zuo.

The exhibition reflects the intricate tapestry of both personal and shared narratives that flourish during this festive season—a time for reflection, renewal, and connection.

In the Mood for Love 良宵
📅 Until 11 February
📍 Gallery Lane Cove, 164 Longueville Road, Lane Cove NSW 2066

GUAN WEI awarded Creative Australia Award for Visual Arts 2024

Congratulations to Guan Wei, who has been presented the Creative Australia Award for Visual Arts 2024. A recognition of an incredible career, this major award acknowledges the achievements of an artist who has made an outstanding and sustained contribution to Australian art.

Guan Wei has been living and working between Beijing, China and Sydney Australia since 1989. Guan Wei is an iconic figure in the Australian contemporary art scene and critically acclaimed internationally. Through his art, he reflects upon the human condition as we engage with critical contemporary issues, such as climate change, questions of identity, migration and exile. Guan Wei has held over 80 solo exhibitions in Australia and internationally from the Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney to OCT Contemporary Art Terminal (OCAT) Shenzhen China and has been included in countless group exhibitions from South Korea to Cuba.

GUO JIAN & GUAN WEI Feature in Upcoming Panel Discussion at Nation Art School

Tides of Change: In Our Time Artists' Panel Discussion

Join us for an engaging conversation with artists Guan Wei and Guo Jian, both renowned Chinese-born artists living in Australia, as they discuss their significant bodies of work featured in the exhibition "IN OUR TIME."

They'll be joined by Dr. Luise Guest, a writer, curator, and education specialist, and Professor Jing Han, Director of the Institute for Australian and Chinese Arts & Culture at the University of Western Sydney.

Saturday, March 23, 2024

12 - 1 PM

GUO JIAN and GUAN WEI featured in "In Our Time" at the National Art School, Sydney

GUO JIAN and GUAN WEI shine bright in "IN OUR TIME: FOUR DECADES OF ART FROM CHINA AND BEYOND THE GEOFF RABY COLLECTION" at the National Art School in partnership with La Trobe Art Institute. This exhibition is on display until March 30th.

Over a 35-year period beginning in the mid-1980s, Australian economist and diplomat Dr Geoff Raby AO assembled an outstanding art collection of artworks by more than 75 artists working in both China and in Australia, as members of the Chinese diaspora. "In Our Time" presents a selection of works from this special collection, now part of the La Trobe University Art Collection.

Installation view of “IN OUR TIME: FOUR DECADES OF ART FROM CHINA AND BEYOND THE GEOFF RABY COLLECTION"

'GUAN WEI: Out of The Ordinary' Opens at Vermillion Art

Guan Wei, 'Ocean 1', 2013, bronze, edition of 5, 35 x 49 x 33 cm.

'GUAN WEI: Out of the Ordinary' has just opened at Vermillion Art in Sydney.

This exhibition is a selection of Guan Wei’s work over the last 12 years. In the ancient Chinese calendar, 12 years is one Ji (一纪 ). It also refers to sufficient time for a major journey. Guan Wei has imbued his works with a profound sense of mystery and wonder. He entices us to go beyond the ordinary, with him on this brilliant odyssey.

The exhibition continues until 16 March.

GUAN WEI's 'Big Mouse Kingdom' on display at Chau Chak Wing Museum

Guan Wei, 'Big Mouse Kingdom', 2005, acrylic on canvas.

GUAN WEI's major work, 'Big Mouse Kingdom', is currently on display at Chau Chak Wing Museum, The University of Sydney, as part of 'The Sherman Gift'. 

In 2021, the Museum received a generous gift of artworks from the collection of Dr Gene Sherman AM and the late Brian Sherman AM. The exhibition features these works and explores Gene and Brian's life of cultural engagement. 

SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY 2022

Welcome to ARC ONE at SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY

From today will be showing a selection of major artworks from some of Australia's most significant contemporary practitioners, including PAT BRASSINGTON, LYNDELL BROWN / CHARLES GREEN, PETER DAVERINGTON, MURRAY FREDERICKS, JANET LAURENCE, HONEY LONG & PRUE STENT, DANI MARTI, JULIE RRAP, IMANTS TILLERS, GUAN WEI, CATHERINE WOO, and JOHN YOUNG. We are also proud to be presenting, for the first time, the work of internationally acclaimed artist DESMOND LAZARO.

Our booth is showcasing brand new artworks, alongside some of the most iconic works from ARC ONE Gallery, in celebration of these artists and their significant contribution to contemporary art in this country.

GUAN WEI and GUO JIAN at BENDIGO ART GALLERY

Guan Wei, Water view no. 15 2011, synthetic polymer paint on canvas. La Trobe University, Geoff Raby Collection of Chinese Art. Image courtesy the artist and ARC ONE © the artist. Photo: Jia De

GUAN WEI and GUO JIAN are included in the forthcoming exhibition ‘In Our Time: Four decades of art from China and beyond - the Geoff Raby Collection’ curated by Latrobe Art Institute.

Opening on 20 August, the exhibition features 70 pieces from the collection of Australian economist and diplomat Dr Geoff Raby AO, with works that address a range of themes from urban life, Chinese philosophy and cultural difference to social justice, human rights and nationhood.

GUAN WEI on display at THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF AUSTRALIA

GUAN WEI, 2002, Synthetic polymer paint on 48 canvases, 317 x 913 cm.

GUAN WEI’s beautiful painting ‘Dow: Island’ (2002) is now on display in The National Gallery of Australia’s Australian art collection.

“When people are thinking about global things they must draw a map. The map is very important to human thinking . . . The work is like a big history that includes ancient animals and human migrations and the situation of refugees in the present.” – Guan Wei

GUAN WEI invited to participate in the Gold Award 2022

Image: Portrait of Guan Wei, 2006, for his mural painting at Powerhouse Museum Sydney.

Congratulations to GUAN WEI, who is one of eight artists who have been invited to participate in the Gold Award 2022, Queensland’s richest art prize. The artists invited in the Gold Award 2022 will form one of the exhibitions scheduled to coincide with the official opening of the newly constructed Rockhampton Museum of Art.

The artworks will be on public display from 25 February 2022 to 15 May 2022, with the winner announced 26 February.

The Gold Award is a joint initiative of the Rockhampton Museum of Art Philanthropy Board, Rockhampton Museum of Art and Rockhampton Regional Council.