1970  Born in Yang Jiang, Guangdong Province
1992 Graduated from Printmaking Department of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art
Lives and works in Yang Jiang, Guangdong Province.

Prize

Zheng Guogu was selected as Best Artist in 2006 by CCAA

Solo Exhibitions

2011  
Zheng Guogu, The Pavilion/Vitamin Creative Space, Beijing

2010  
Garden of Pine–Also Fierce Than TigerⅡ(Cooperation with Yangjiang Group),Tang Contemporary Art Center, Beijing, China

2008
Zheng Guogu: Commemorative Plaque 2008: Lehman Brothers Gate, Art Basel Miami Beach 2008
Hundred-Year-Old Tree Blooms Again, Recent Works by Zheng Guogu, CHAMBERS FINE ART, New York
Processing factory, Tang Contemporary Art Center, Beijing, China

2007
Zheng Guogu, Barbara Gross Gallery, German
HONG KONG， Surprise Urban Discoveries, New Works by Zheng Guogu, HONG KONG
Basel: New Paintings by Zheng Guogu, Switzerland

2006
Mouse Cow Tiger Hare Dragon Snake (Cooperation with Yangjiang Group), Beijing

2005
"Puzzle"-It is from Yangjiang, Grace Alexander Contemporary Art Gallery, Switzerland
2004
My Home is Your Museum,Vitamin Creative Space,Guangzhou

2003
Photo works 1997-2000, ShanghART, Shanghai

2002
Are you going to enjoy calligraphy or measure blood pressure? Shanghai (together with Sha Yeya, Chen Zaiyan, Sun Qinglin)

2001
Zheng Guogu:The Compressing World, Yang Jiang Guang Dong

2000
Zheng Guogu: More Dimensional, CAAW, Beijing
Zheng Guogu: More Dimensional, Shanghai at BizArt Space, Shanghai

1998
Sixteen of the Ten Thousand Customers and other Works,
Beijing Photo Gallery, Beijing

Group Exhibitions

2012  
Rites, thoughts, notes, sparks, swings, strikes. A Hong Kong spring, Para/Site, HongKong
Face, Mingsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China

2011  
Local Knowledge, The Dowse Art Museum, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
Museum on Paper: 12 Chinese Artists, Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
Chair Impacted by Meteorite Swarm, Art Basel 42, Switzerland

2010
I haven't been a boss for long time: Exploring the geography of Jiang Hu, Hong Kong
How Many One-Way Streets Can Lead to the True Centre of the Street Gardens? Art Basel 2010, Basel, Switzerland
Nether Land,Dutch Culture Center,Shang Hai
Reshaping History, Chinart from 2000 to 2009, Beijing, 2010

2009
BREAKING FORECAST: 8 KEY FIGURES OF CHINA'S NEW GENERATION ARTISTS, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA),Beijing, China
Art Gallery, Art 40 Basel, Basel
The Shop at CIGE, Beijing, China
Biennales de Lyon 2009-The Spectacle of the Everyday, Lyon, France

2008
HongKong,HongKong,big world in HongKong,HongKong
Christian Dior & Chinese Artists,The Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
It Is I Too, Photographic Self-portraits by 21 Chinese Artists
Can art do more, the Israel museum, Israel
Sprout from White Nights, Bonniers Konsthall，Stockholm, Sweden
Farewell to Post-Colonialism,The Third Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
China Gold, Musee Maillol, Fondation Dina Vierny, Paris
Our Future: The Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation Collection, UCCA -Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, Pig, Art Statements,Art 39 Basel, Basel
Pine Tree Garden, Art Unlimited, Art 39 Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Sleeplessness Photo Exhibition, Shanghai
Dragon Hidden in Paper, on paper exhibition, Beijing
A turn for the better, The phenomenon of post-traditional in the contemporary art exhibition, Beijing
Exhibition series third about artistic phenomena and situations since 1985:Guangzhou Station--Special,Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou

2007
Documenta 12, Kassel, Germany
Brave New Worlds, Walker Art Center, USA
Art Statements,Art 38 Basel, Basel
China Welcomes You ...Desires, Struggles, New Identities, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz
The Real Thing: contemporary art from China, Tate Modern Liverpool,uk

2006 
It's all right, Hangzhou
Mouse Cow Tiger Hare Dragon Snake, Beijing
CHAOS CITIES, Beijing
"Accumulation--Canton Express Next Stop", Beijing
surplus value, Beijing
Infiltration ,Idylls and Visions - the second Contemporary Ink-wash Space, Guangzhou
take down, UniversalStudios-beijing,Beijing
Through Popular Expression, Of the University of Central England in Birmingham (UCE), UK
Through Popular Expression, Het Domein Museum,Sittard,Holland
Guangzhou - Cantones Artists in the Sigg Collection, Kunstmuseum Bern,Switzerland
International Ink Biennale of Shenzhen :Ink ,Life, Taste-To Sugar Add Some Salt, He Xiangning Museum of Art,Shenzhen

2005
The Second Guangzhou Triennial - BEYOND:an extraordinary space of experimentation for modernization, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
Black Extreme Vigorous Figurative, Shenzhen
Out of Sight, Amsterdam
Follow me! Chinese art at the threshold of the new millennium", Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Living in Interesting Times-A Decade of New Chinese Photography', Israel Museum of Photography Tel Hai, Israel
"Puzzle"-It is from Yangjiang, Grace Alexander Contemporary Art Gallery, Switzerland

2004
ALL UNDER HEAVEN, Ancient and contemporary Chinese art, The Collection of the Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation, MuHKA (Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp), Antwerp, Belgium
Past in Reverse,Contemporary Art of East Asia,San Diego Museum of Art
New Photography from China,International Center of Photography(ICP),NY
A l'oust du sud de l'est,Sete,France
All Under Heaven,Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp,Antwerp,Belgium
Object System:Doing Nothing,ARCO 2004,Madrid,Spain

2003
Fabricated Paradises, Le Parvis Centre of Contemporary Art, France
50th International Art Exhibition-Z.O.U. la Biennale di Venezia+Playing at home/Playing away: the Maze of reality , Shenzhen.
The Fifth System: Public Art in the age of Post-Planning, Shenzhen

2002
Guangju Biennial, South Korea
Shanghai Biennial, Shanghai
Asianvible:Asian Contemporary Art, Espai d'Art Contemporani de Castello
To see the calligraphy or to measure the blood pressure, Yang Jiang
In Shanghai 2002 in YangJiang some event occurring, Shangart Gallery, Shanghai

2001
Hot Pot, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
Photo Festival Naarden, Naarden City, Netherlands
City Slang, HeXiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen
Chinese Photography Show, Passage de Retz, Paris
Cross Pressures, Oulu Art Museum; Finnish Museum of Photography,Helsinki
Hangzhou New Medium Art Festival, China Fine Art Academy, Hangzhou
Living in Time-29, Contemporary Artists from China, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin; Art Forum Berlin
Are you going to enjoy calligraphy or measure blood pressure, Shanghart Gallery, Shanghai (together with Sha Yeya, Chen Zaiyan, Sun Qinglin)
Chengdu Biennial, Chengdu

2000
Clash! 100 artists Canvas International Art, Amsterdam
Individual and Society in Art - A Collection of Works of Art By Eleven Chinese Artists, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
Cities of the 21st Century, Beijing; Shanghai; Shenzhen; Bauhaus Dessau; Germany
The Sun Rises in the East - the current artistic scene in Asia,
Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France
Post Material - Interpretations of Everyday Life by Contemporary Chinese Artists, Red Gate Watch Tower, Beijing
Fuck Off, Xi Suzhouhe 1133, Shanghai
Portraits, Figures, Couples and Groups from the Mcaf Foundation,
BizArt, Shanghai

1999
Post-Sense Sensibility Alien Bodies & Delusion,
Basement Third ring road, Beijing
Innovations Part I, China Art Archives and Warehouse, Beijing
Changing Views, Kunsthal Hof 88 Almelo, Netherlands
Art For Sale, Huaihai Zhonglu, Shanghai
International Photographie Biennal, Centre de la Imagen, Mexico City
The Other XChange, Galerie Objektiv und Edition, Cologne, Germany
Concepts, Colors and Passions, China Art Archives and Warehouse, Beijing
Unveiled Reality - Contemporary Photography, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok; Art Beatus Gallery, Vancouver
Beautiful Like Materialism, Shanghai; Beijing; Nanjing; Honking
Intimate Moments, Hanart Gallery, Honking
Hsin: a visible spirit - Contemporary Photography from the People's Republic of China, Cypress College Photography Galleries; BC Space Gallery, USA
Cities on the Move 4, Hayward Gallery, London
Love, Chinese Contemporary Photography & Video, International Arts Festival Tachikawa, Japan
Cities on the Move 5, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki;
Modern Chinese Art Foundation Caermerklooster, Gent, Belgium

1998
Biennial de l'imago Paris 98, Centre national de la Photographie, Paris
Site Art Project Walking, Museum in Takashimaya, Tokyo
Cities on the Move 2, capcMusee, Bordeaux, France
Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan
Confused, Kunst Rai 98 Art Amsterdam, Amsterdam
Photography as Concept - 4. Internationale Foto-Triennial Esslingen, Germany Guarene Arte Torino, Italy
The Corruptionists, Basement Third ring road, Beijing
Cities on the Move 3, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Centre, New York
Images Telling Stories, Shanghai

1997
Contemporary Photo Art from P. R. China, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin; Städtische Kunstsammlungen, Chemnitz; Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Germany
Cities on the Move 2, Wiener Secession, Austria

1996
Possibility - Installation Exhibition with The Big Tail Elephant Group, Guangzhou

1994
The Third Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Art Documentation
Library of East China Normal University, Shanghai
Hanmo New Art Special Show, Guangzhou
No Room - with The Big Tail Elephant Group，Guangzhou