Born
1957
Beijing, China
Lives and works in Sydney & Beijing
1986
Graduated from the department of Fine Arts of Beijing Capital University
Solo Exhibitions
2007
Day After Tomorrow, Red Gate Gallery 798 Village Beijing
A Mysterious Land, ARC One Gallery Melbourne
2006
Other Histories: Guan Wei’s Fable for a Contemporary World, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
A Distant Land, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide
Jiang Hu, Liverpool Regional Museum, Sydney
Echo, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
2005
Secret Histories, ARC One Gallery , Melbourne
2004
Looking for Enemies Sherman Galleries, Goodhope, Sydney
Prediction-Reflection The Church Gallery, Perth International Arts Festival
2003
Looking Greene St Studio, New York
A Passage to Australia photospace, School of Art ANU Canberra
2002
Dao Esplanade Theatres on the Bay, Singapore
Island, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney
Exotic Flowers & Rare Grasses, Sherman Galleries Hargrave, Sydney
2001
Studio Show, Parks Victoria Warrandyte Melbourne
2000
Horoscope, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing
Domino, Arrivals, Sydney 2000 Olympic Arts Festival
Zen Garden, Sheman Galleries, Sydney
Looking for Home, Earllu Gallery, Singapore
1999
Floating, Sherman Gallery, Sydney.
Nesting or Art of Idleness, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Span Galleries, Melbourne
1998
Revisionary, Drill Hall Gallery, The Australian National University
Internal Circulation, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing
1997
The Last Supper, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo
ex/inspire, Sherman Galleries, Goodhope, Sydney
Anonymons Invader Sydney Grammar School, Sydney
1996
Return to Paradise, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing
Umbrella Studio, Townsville North Queensland
Magic Garden Hanart T Z Gallery, Hong Kong
1995
Treasure Hunt Sherman Galleries, Goodhope, Sydney
1994
The Great War of the Eggplant Drill Hall Gallery, The Australian National University
1993
Test Tube Baby Sherman Galleries, Sydney
1992
The Living Specimen Plimsoll Gallery University of Tasmania Hobart
Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart
1991
Waverly City Gallery, Melbourne
Hobart Despard Street Gallery, Hobart
Plimsoll Gallery University of Tasmania Hobart
Photo Space School of Fine Art in the Australian National University, Canberra
1989
French Embassy, Beijing
Selected Group Exhibitions
2008 Handle with Care Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia
Australian Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney
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Lines in the Sand-Botany Bay Stories from 1770, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Art Centre,
Sydney
2007 Down Under DenHaag Sculptuur 07, Hague Sculpture, Netherlands
Voiceless, Sherman Galleries Sydney
Scienceasart, Art Gallery of NSW Sydney
Culture Trackers 24HR Art, NT Centre for Contemporary Art, Darwin
News from Islands, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney
National Artists Self Portrait Prize, The University of Queensland Art Museum
2006 Between River and Lake, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York
15th Anniversary Exhibition, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing
Living Water Dreaming Water, Sydney University Museum
Flewrieu Peninsula Biennale, Mclaren Vale, South Australia
Yours, Mine & Ours 50 Years of ABC TV, Campbelltown Arts Centre
2006 The Year in Art, S. H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Harmony Sydney 06, Cheng Shifa Gallery Art Center Academic, Shanghai
2005 Text Me – an exploration of body language, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
The Nature Machine - Contemporary Art Nature and Technology, Queensland Art Gallery
The 10th Anniversary of Post – Earthquake Restoration, Hyogo International Competition of
Painting, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan
The Wynne Prize Exhibition, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
The Sir John Sulman Prize Exhibition, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
In Between Realities … Three on the Bund, Gallery Shanghai, China
Western Front: art is a social space, Blacktown Arts Centre, Sydney
Future Tense – security and human rights, Dell Gallery Queensland College of Art, Griffith Uni
2004 Process Asia – Australia Art Centre, Sydney
Cycle Tracks will abound in utopia, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Terra Alterius: Land of Another, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, COFA, The University of NSW
The Plot Thickens - Narratives in Australian Art, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
Art TV 2004, Australian Centre for the Moving Image
2003. Australia – Berlin Hamburger, Bahnhof Museum, Berlin
Science Fiction, National Art Gallery, Singapore
The Dish Ran Away with the Spoon - Exploring Still life, Academy Gallery School of Visual and
Performing Art, University of Tasmania
Creating Paradise on Earth, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney
Ned Kelly Framed, National Trust’s SH Ervin Gallery
Austral-asia zero three, Sherman Gallery Goodhope, Sydney
Isle of Refuge, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, COFA UNSW, Sydney
Witnessing to Silence Art and Human Rights, Drill Hall, Gallery ANU, Canberra
Hothouse the flower in contemporary art, State Library of Victoria, Geelong Art Gallery,
National Library of Australia, Meclelland Art Gallery, Gippsland Art Gallery
Art & About 2003, Open Gallery Banner on Street, City of Sydney
New Borders – New directions, A space on Cleveland, Sydney
2002 Dialogue with the Watchtower, Brisbane
Jan Murphy Gallery, Melbourne Art Fair, Singapore Art Fair
Points of View, University of Technology Gallery, Sydney
Borderpanic, Performance Space, Sydney
Fesitivus, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney
2002 The Year in Art, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
Dressing & Dreaming, Sherman Galleries, Hargrave, Sydney
Deeper Places, Casula Power House Arts Centre, Sydney
Sulman Prize Exhibition, NSW Art Gallery, Sydney
Sydney 2002, Hill on Hargrave Gallery, Sydney
2001 Berlin Art Fair
ShangHai Art Fair
Osaka Triennial 2001,Contemporary Art space, Osaka
7th NICAF International Contemporary Art Festival, Tokyo
Low-down, Monash University Gallery, Monash University Melbourne
HERMANNS 2001, Sherman Galleries, Tamworth City Gallery, Tweed River Regional Art
Gallery, Hermanns Melbourne Stores, Bendigo Art Gallery, Mornington Peninsula Regional
Gallery, Woolongong City Gallery. Neram (Armidale), Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, Hazel
Hurst Regional Gallery & Art Centre, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery.
Asia in Australia Beyond Orientalism, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane
Clues to the Future, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing
2000 Kwangju Biennale 2000, South Korea
A Long Life, Water Mall, Queensland Art Gallery
Nepean Collection, Penrith Regional Gallery, Sydney
The Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney
Lines of Descent, The family in Contemporary Asian Art, Queensland Art Gallery
1999 Five Continents and A City, Second International Salon of Painting, Museum of Mexico City
Sydney 99, Australia & China Cultural exchange art exhibition, SGI Australia Cultural Centre,
Sydney and Cheng Shifar Gallery Art Centre, Academic of Shanghai China
Third Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery
The Rose Crossing, Brisbane City Gallery, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Singapore Art Museum
and SH Ervin Gallery Sydney
Chicago Contemporary Art Fair, USA
Sulman Prize Exhibition, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
The Artful Cello, 2nd Melbourne International Music Competition and Festival, Melbourne
Persuasive Humonrs, Mosmant Gallery & Cultural Centre, NSW
The 4th Kochi International Triennial, exhibition of prints
1998 Canberra Drawing Biennale, Drill Hall Gallery, The Australian National University
To the Wall - and Back, Span Galleries, Melbourne
Ways of Being, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, The University of NSW, Sydney
Culture Graft, 4A Gallery, Sydney
Retake, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing
Skin / Culture, Eight Australian Artists, George Gallery, Melbourne
Beyond China, Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery, NSW
Sulman Prize Exhibition, Art Gallery of NSW. Tour to: Wollongong City Gallery, Bathurst
Regional Art Gallery, Broken Hill City Art Gallery and Wagga Wagga City Art Gallery
Cartoons and Caricature in Contemporary Art, Geelong Art Gallery, VIC
1997 John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize exhibition, National Gallery Victoria, Melbourne
Osaka Triennial 1997-print, Japan
Summer Exhibition, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
Za Moca Foundation, Tokyo.
In-Out, Contemporary Art from Main Land China and Overseas
Lasalle SIA College of the Arts Gallery, Singapore, Tour to Australia
Asian art, Australian National University Drill Hall, Gallery ACT
Drift, Penrith Regional Gallery
Anon ... Sherman Galleries, Goodhope, Sydney
1996 Fifth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne
Monash University Acquisitive Art Prize, Monash University, Melbourne
Above and Beyond Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne; Institute of Modern
Art, Brisbane; 24 HR ART, Darwin; Contemporary Art Centre of SA, Adelaide.
Red Gate Gallery 5th Anniversary Exhibition, Beijing
Compost Exhibition, Adelaide 96 Festival
Flagging the Republic, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
A Sense of Place, Bede Gallery, Jarrow, UK
1995 3 x 3 Sites, Sydney, Christchurch, Auckland, Berlin, Canberra, Beijing
Work on Paper, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
The Collectable Eggbeater, Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania
Perspecta, Art Gallery Of New South Wales, Sydney
1994 Fourth Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne
Localities of Desire, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Gold Coast City Conrad Jupiters Art Prize, Gold coast City Art Gallery, Queensland
94 Open, Artspace, Sydney
New Art from China, Noosa Regional Gallery, Queensland.
1993 Second Asian Art Fair, Hong Kong
Silent Energy, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
Mao Goes Pop, China Post-1989, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
New Art in China 1989/93, Hanart Gallery, Taipei
New Art from China, Post-1989, Hong Kong Arts Centre
Six Contemporary Chinese Artists, Griffith University Art Gallery, Brisbane
1992 Third Australian Contemporary Art Fair, Melbourne
Six Contemporary Chinese Artists, Space YZ ,University of Western Sydney
Chinese New Wave, Chameleon Contemporary Art Space, Hobart.
Orientations - The Emperor's Now Clothes, Irving Galleries
1991 Echoes of China - From Behind the Bamboo Curtain - Three contemporary Chinese Artists,
Irving Galleries, Sydney
Twelve Contemporary Chinese Artists, University of Sydney
1990 Three Chinese Artists Show, Plimsoll Gallery, Tasmanian School of Art, Hobart
Lun Exhibition, Beijing
90 International Youth Art Show, Paris
Contemporary Chinese Young Artists works, Twin Cranes Gallery, Seattle
1989 Exhibition of the Second Party of the Survivors Poet Club, Beijing Central Drama Institut.
Individual Paintings, Beijing Teachers Institute, Beijing
1988 Alumni Painting Exhibition, Beijing Teachers Institute, Beijing
Four Artist Show, Jian Gou Men Wai Foreign Department, Beijing
1987 Guan Wei and Ah Xian Paintings, Beijing University, Beijing
1986 Autumn Salon Exhibition, Paris
Exhibition of Four Artists, Beijing University, Beijing.
Grants/Awards
2007 Ambassador 2007 City of Sydney Chinese New Year Festival
Grant, Australia Council, artist in residence at Cite International des Art Paris
2006 Artists’ Camp, Gunbalanya (Oenpelli), Western Amhem Land, through 24HR Art, Darwin
(Australia Council Grant)
Artist-in-residence Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney
2005 Australian – China Council residence grant at Taipei Artist Village
2004 Commission ‘Feng Shui’ Mural Painting for 700 Collins St Docklands Melbourne
Commission ‘Paper War’ For SBS & Australian Centre for the Moving Image
2003 Grant, Australia Council, artist-in-residence Greene St, New York
Visiting Fellowship, Canberra School of Art Australia National University, Canberra
Artist-in-residence Casula Power House Museum, NSW
2002 Sulman Prize, NSW Art Gallery
2001 Mosman Art Prize, Sydney
Awarded 2001, 39th Festival of Fisher’s Ghost, Campbelltown Art Gallery, Sydney
Artist-in-residence Bundanon Trust Nowra NSW
Artist-in-residence Parks Victoria
2000 Grant from Asia Link Australia
Artist-in-residence, Lasalle SIA College of the Arts, Singapore
1999 Awarded 1999 Nillumbik Art Award, VIC
Awarded 1999 Geelong Print Prize
Awarded 1999 Rena Elen Jones Memorial Print Award
Artist-in-Residence Queensland College of Art, Griffith University
1998 Visiting Fellowship, Canberra School of Art Australia National University, Canberra
Grant, Australia Council.
Art Prize 1998 Gold Coast City
Gonrad Jupiters Art Prize
1997 Artist-in-Residence, Sydney Grammar School
Awarded 1997 Australian Print media Art Prize, University of Western Sydney, Nepean
Awarded 1997 Biennial art Exhibition diary, The Southland Entertainment centre, Sydney
One of eight artists commissioned to produce the fine art limited edition prints for the Sydney
2000 Olympic poster program
1996 Curatorial Team Member, the Second Asia-Pacific of Contemporary Art Triennial, Queensland
Art Gallery
1995 Grant, Australia Council
1994 Awarded 1994 Gold Coast City Gonrad Jupiters Art Prize
1993 Artist-in-Residence, Canberra School of Art, Australian National University Canberra
1992 Artist-in-Residence, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
1990-91 Artist-in-Residence, Tasmanian School of Art, University of Tasmania, Hobart
1990 Grant, Australia Council
1989 Artist-in-Residence, Tasmanian School of Art, University of Tasmania, Hobart
Selected Bibliography
2007
Book Cover ‘Our Patch’ Looking for Enemies No.2 Published by Curtin UTS.
Tracey Clement, 'Other Histories Guan Wei's fable for a Contemporary World' Art Gallery Guide
Australia, Janurary/February 2007, p8-9.
‘Chinese Contemporary Art Document’ Unfamiliar Land, P99-101 Published by Hunan Fine Arts
Publishing house, China.
‘Brought to Light 2 Contemporary Australian Art 1966 – 2006’ Karen Smith
‘The story of Guan Wei’P292 -299 Published by Queensland Art Gallery Australia.
‘Breakout Chinese Art outside China’ Melissa Chiu P159 – 203 Published by Silvia Palombi
Arts & Mestre, Milano.
Geremie R Barmé ‘Telling selves & talking others’ Art Asia Pacific, No.52 Mar/Apr 2007 P72-75
Guan Wei ‘Interpretion of Art Design, architecture and Oxygen POL Oxygen Issue 20/2007
P21-27.
Micheel Goldberg ‘Other histories Guan Wei’s Fable for a Contemporary World’ Object 52, P48
Day After Tomorrow exhibition catalogue write by Tally Back ‘Navigation Guan Wei’
A Mysterious Land exhibition catalogue write by Guan Wei.
Andrea Stretton ‘Art Monographs’ Art & Australia Vol. 44 No.3, 2007, P452-453.
Ashley Crawford ‘Unreadable writing – a new alphabet? Guan Wei goes bush’ ArtLink Vol. 27
#1, P66-67.
Guan Wei ‘A mysterious land’ Artlink Vol. 27 No.4, P49-51.
John Medonald,’Adrift in a sea of good intentions’ The Sydney morning herald spectrum, Oct 6-
7 P16-17.
Interview by CCTV Channel 10 8/5/2007.
Interview by Beijing Radio Station 8/6/2007.
Interview by CCTV Channel 4, 19-20/7/2007.
2006
Book Directory of Australian Art P96 Published by Craftsman House.
Book The New McCulloch's Encyclopedia of Australian Art 'Secret Histories No.5' Guan Wei,
P1012.
Rhana Devenport, 'Beauty Shadew - play and silhouettes' Art and Australia Vol44, No.2 2006,
P242 -251.
Andrea Stretton, 'Readers in Fram' Art and Australia Vol44, No.2 2006, P282.
Ken Bolton, 'Guan Wei - Unfamiliar Land' Eyeline Contemporary Visual Arts No.62, Summer
2006/2007, p67.
Robin Best, 'Unfamiliar Land', Artlink Volume 26, No.4, 2006 p116.
Contemporary Art Gallery of New South Wales, Contemporary collection, Art Gallery of NSW
catalogue, p172-173.
Art Book ‘Guan Wei’, writer: Dinah Dysart, Natalie King & Hou Hanru, Published by Craftsman
House.
Art Book ‘Twenty’ Sherman Galleries 1986 – 2006, P20,24,30,58,108,261-265 & 293. Published
by Craftsman House.
Book Cover ‘No Country is an island: Australia and International Law’ Published by UNSW
Press.
Interview By Radio Adelaide.
Interview By ABC TV News 5 Oct 2006.
Interview By ABC TV “Sunday Art” 19 Nov 2006.
Nicholas Jose, ‘Fantastic Cosmographies’ Unfamiliar Land exhibition at CACSA catalogue.
Sotheby’s Asia Contemporary Art Auction NY 31 March 2006 P72 catalogue.
Guan Wei ‘Echo’ solo show Sherman Galleries catalogue.
Other Histories ‘Guan Wei’s Fable for a Contemporary World’ Powerhouse Museum solo show
catalogue.
Sinophilia, ‘A gang of fire’ Australian Art Review Issue 10 Mar –Jun 2006 P68 – 72.
Thomas Scheibitz, ‘Jiang Hu at Tilton Gallery’ Art in Review – New York Times, 23 Jun 2006.
Louise Nunn, ‘Temporary Walls’ The Advertiser Tuesday 4 Jul 2006 Art, P28.
John Neylon, ‘Pulling Power of persistent image’ The Adelaide Review, 30 Jun – 13 Jul 2006,
P14.
Prue Ahrens, ‘Who can paint the face of terror? Future tense: Security and Human Rights’
Eyeline Contemporary visual Arts No.60. 2006, P50.
Melanie Eastburn, ‘Guan Wei’s perilous journeys’ Art Asia Pacific 50th issue, fall 2006, P70-71.
Jian Hu Tilton Gallery New York catalogue.
Sunanda Creagh, ‘You can see the political situation in my work, these bodies with no eyes’ Art
& Entertainment
The Sydney Morning Herald, Sep 9-10 2006, P4-5.
Jamie Pandaram, ‘Fantasy history could be true’, The Sydney Morning Herald, Weekend
Edition Oct 7-8 2006. P21.
John Mcdonald, ‘The barrier that united a culture’ The Sydney Morning Herald, Oct 14-15, Art &
entertainment, P16-17.
Monte Packham, ‘Floating time and place’ Sleek 12 East /West, magazine for art and fashion,
Autumn 2006 P196-201.
Jeremy Eccles, ‘Beyond the Great Wall’ & ‘Guan Wei’s Artistic Journey through History’, The
Canberra Times, Friday Oct 13, P4-5.
2005
J Mek ‘Face up contemporary art from Australia’ Studio International yearbook/special issue
2000-3 Volume 202, number 2025.
Juliana Engberg, ‘The Follies of History, Guan Wei’s new perspective’ Melbourne solo show
catalogue.
Michael Fitzgerald, ‘Paint the wes’t red, a savvy new generation of China artists is putting its
stamp or the Australian art world’ Time 25 April 2005.
Sebastian Smee, ‘Artist in a floating world’ Pol Oxygen, Issue 14//2005, P36 – 44.
Victoria Hynes & Anne Marie Lopez, ‘The apprentice’ The Sydney Magazine The Sydney
Morning Herald, Issue #29, September 2005, P58-60.
‘New public art commissions’ Artlink, Volume 25, No.1 2005.
Caroline Turner,’Art and Social Change, Contemporary Art in Asia and The Pacific’, Book, P21,
P468-469.
2004
Terry Ingram ‘Wei is off the Wall’ The Australian Financial Review, 23 Sep 2004, P47.
‘Bombs & Beaches’, The Reader, Friday, 24 Sep 2004, P32-33.
Nicholas Jose ‘Going Going Guan’ (The Review) The Weekend Australian. 18 – 19 Sep 2004,
P18-19.
Elizabeth Fortescue, ‘Bird’s – eye skew of a Modern War’, Daily Telegraph, 13 Sep 2004, P46.
Peter Hill, ‘Shock of the Real’ The Sydney Morning Herald, (Weekend Edition), 2-3 Oct,
Spectrum, P19.
Victoria Gurvich, ‘Work of the Week’, The Age, (Review) Sat, 11 Sep 2004, P7.
Laura Murray Cree, ‘Art Now: Guan Wei’ State of the Arts July-September 2004, P100-101.
Sasha Grishin, ‘The Art of Conscience’ Australian Art Review, Nov 2003 – Feb 2004, P47 –
P48.
Glenis Israel, Senior Artwise 2, Visual Arts 11-12, P179-186.
Nyanda Smith, ‘New Mates and in the Picture’ The West Australian Weekend Extra, Sat, 10
Jan 2004.
Steve Meacham, ‘Opera House has Olsen, but Melbourne gets a bigger picture’ The Sydney
Morning Herald, Tue, 13 April, 2004.
Felicity Fenner, ‘Science Fictions, Singapore Arts Festival 2003’ Art Asia Pacific, Issue 39,
winter, 2004.
2003
Deboraah Hart ‘Looking for Home the fables of Guan Wei’ Art &Australia 40th Anniversary Issue
vol 40 No4 2003 P618 – 625.
Tim Othy Morroll, ‘Guan Wei most collectable artists’ Australian Art Collector Issue 23 Jan-Mar
2003 P75.
Ouyang Yu ‘talks to Guan Wei Interview Horizontal and Vertical’ Meajin (Reads their lips) 2003
Vol.62 No.1 P186 – 194
Guan Wei ‘Method for Eggplant Cultivation’ Melanie Eastburn ‘On Guan Wei’ Heat 5 New
Series (Eggplant Dreaming 2003) P129 – 153 & Caver.
Guan Wei ‘Revisionary’ (detail) 1998 The Art of Persuasion Australia Art Criticism 1950 – 2001
Editor Benjamin Genocchio P134 & Front and Back Cover.
Peter Hill ‘Gimme Shelter’ Spectrum The Sydney Morning Herald 28-29 June 2003 P12-13.
2002
Julie Ewington 'Across, Between' Points of View Catalogue, UTS Gallery Sydney, P76.
Peter Anderson 'the fork in the road' Artlink Volume 22 No.3, 2002 P20-21.
Kiersten Fishburn, 'Deeper places' Artlink Volume 22 No.3, 2002 P85.
Brenda Colahan, 'The Asian Phenomenon' The Australian Art Market Report, issue5, spring 02
Borderpanic Reader Catalogue, P107.
Australian Art, in the National Gallery of Australia, Art Book, P389.
Openings - A Celebration of the 30th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Australia and
China, by the Asia - Australia Institute, the university of NSW, P80-81.
Ursala Kolbe, Rapunzel's Supermarket - all about young children and their art, P52.
Laura Marray Cree, Awesome Australian Art for Contemporary Kids art book, P38-39.
Linda Jaivin, 'Paint Me' Australia Art Collector issue 20, April-June 2002, P54-56 & Cover.
2001
Guan Wei, ‘10years in Australia’ Postwest No.19 2001, P12-17.
The Sydney Morning Herald Cover artwork commissioned by the Herald to celebrate
Australia Day.
Nicholas Jose, ‘Asian-Australian Dialogaes in the Visual Arts’ Art & Australia Vol.38 No4.
2001 P592-599.
Louise Martin-Chen, ‘Culturally Under the Influence’ The Arts, The Australian P10 Friday
1/6/2001.
2000 Wa Hung 'Chinese Art at the Crossroads - Between Past and Future, Between East and
West' P210.
Lola Lenzi, ‘Guan Wei: A Decade Out of China’ Asian Art, Contemporary Art Newspaper
England June 2000.
Lee Weng Choy, ‘The Rose Crossing’ Art Asia Pacific Issue 28, P95.
Guan Wei ‘Zhi Hu Zhe Ye’ Painting, Cover on Alter /Asians Book.
Yi Yan Wang ‘Settlers and Sojourners: Multicultural Subjectivity of Chinese – Australian
Artists’ Alter/Asians Book P107 –122.
Melissa Chiu, ‘Guan Wei’s Horoscoope’ Horoscope Red Gate Gallery Catalogue.
Evelyn Juers, ‘Guan Wei’ Nepean Collection Catalogue P47 – 48.
Melanie Eastburn, ‘Reincaruation’ Artonview, National Gallery of Australia, Issue No. 22,
Winter 2000 P26-28.
Nicholas Jose, ‘Sojouning Artists’ Artonview National Gallery of Australia, Issue No. 22.
Winter 2000, P28-29.
Melissa Chiu, ‘Duplicitons Dialogue’, Art Asia Pacific, Issue 27, P23-25.
Diana Simmonds, ‘Brush Strokes of Genius’ Express/arts, The Sunday Telegraph, P117,
July 9, 2000.
Morris Low, ‘Hybrid transplants’, Art link Volume 20, No.2, P56-57.
Interviewed by South Korea TV station.
Kwangju Biennale 2000, exhibition catalogue, P276-279.
Guan Wei, 'Treasure Hunt' No.5, Art & Australia, Vol. 37, No. 3, 2000, P431.
Interviewed by Singapore Channel 8 TV station.
'Looking for Home' exhibition catalogue.
Siane Jay, 'Is it Asian or Australian', The Straits Times, Newspaper Singapore.
1999 Melissa Chiu,'Asian - Australian Artist: Cultural shifts in Australia' Art & Australia, No2 1999,
P254-260.
Guan Wei, 'Treasure Hunt' Heat No13, Literary International, P115-124.
Binghui Huangfu, 'Foreign Compound Global market', Asian Art News, Sep/Oct 99, P68-71.
Charles Green, 'Guan Wei', Art/text, #67,1999, Reviews, P94.
Shao Yi Yang, 'The Art of Nesting'- Guan Wei exhibition at MCA, Artist, Taiwan, Sep 99,
P476-479.
Third Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, (catalogue), Cover & P180-181.
The Rose Crossing, (catalogue), P22-25.
Jeremy Eccles, 'The eye of a banner man' Asiaweek, 2 July, P38-39.
Guan Wei, 'Neo-Genesis' No.1, Olympic Arts Festivals 1999 (catalogue), P86.
BenJamin Genocchio, 'Enrichment from a Chinese Wave' The Australian 30/6/99 P10.
Peter Timms, 'A sense of mirth amid man's mire' The Age 30/6/99 P6.
Anne Sarzin, 'Guan Wei's eggplants, Test-tube Babies and V-singns',
The University of Sydney News, 17/6/99, P7.
Sebastian Smee, 'Wei to Go' The Sydney Morning Herald 11-17/99 Metro.
Sebastian Smee, 'Ashow of Hands' The Sydney Morning Herald 8/6/99 P16.
'Guan Wei Nesting, or Art of Idleness', Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney (catalogue).
The 4th Kochi International Triennial, exhibition of prints (catalogue).
Claire Roberts, 'What goes around comes around - The art of Guan Wei', Art Asia Pacific,
1/1999, P58-65.
Dinan Dysart, 'Asian Contemporary Art in Sydney', Asian Art, Newspaper, 1/1999, P18.
'Australia's 50 Most Collectable Artists', Australian Art Collector, Issue 7, Jan-Mar 1999, P61.
1998 'Guan Wei - visions for the future, ANU media, magzing, August 1998, P13.
John Clark, Modern Asian Art, Art Book, P198, 232, 268-269.
Sebastian Smee, 'Show hits a Snag' The Sydney Morning Herald, October 6, 1998, P15
Arts.
Sasha Grishin, 'Challenge to Traditions', The Canberra Times, Oct. 5 1998, P7.
Guan Wei 'Revisionary' (detail), Art Monthly, October 1998, Cover.
Maud Girard - Geslan, 'Guan Wei, an adventure from east to west',
Revisionary Catalogue, ANU Drill Hall Gallery.
Melissa Chiu, 'Culture Graft' Catalogue, Culture Graft, 4A Gallery Sydney.
John Mcdonald, 'After the Party' The Sydney Morning Herald, Spectrum Arts, 2 May, 1998,
P14s.
Interviewed by China Central Televison, (CCTV).
Jacqueling Millner, 'Drift' Art and Australia, Gardens, Vol 35, No.4, 1998, P579 - 580.
Karen Smith, 'Guan Wei at Red Gate Gallery', Asian Art News, May/June 1998, P80 - 81.
Zhu Dake, 'New Asian Artists explse in Australia', Asian News Week, 29/6 - 5/7 1998, P60-
61.
John Clark, ' Dilemmas of (dis-)attachment in the Chinese Diaspora' Visual Arts and Calture,
7/98, P14-45.
Nikki Miller, 'Agallery gets worn in', Realtime, June - July 98, P45.
Anita Bragge, 'Skin - tight but right', Herald Sun, 13/6/98.
Maggie Pai, 'Complex Cycles' Asian Art News, March / April 1998, P40-43.
Stroke of Good Fortune', Daily Telegraph newspaper January 29 1998 P55.
Sasha Grishin, 'Unfettered Creativity a boon', The Canberra Times newspaper, 30/3/98, P9.
Skin / Culture, Eight Australian Artists, George Gallery, Melbourne. (Catalogue)
Beyond China, Campbelltown city Bicentennial Art Gallery, NSW. (Catalogue)
Cartoons and Caricature in Contemporary Art, Geelong Art Gallery, VIC. (Catalogue)
1997 Cereatha Harris, 'The who's who of 1998' The Sydney Morning Herald, 31/12/97, P21-22.
Osaka Triennale 1997, Catalogue, P79.
Peter Timms, 'An assortment of mystic an pieces', The Age, newspaper, 10/12/97,
MetroArts, c7.
Lauren Martin, 'The road to Sydney 2000 - Eight who have designs on city', The Sydney
Morning Herald,
Friday, 21/11/97, P16.
Sebastian Smee, 'Guan all the Wei', Sydney Morning Herald, 14-20 November 97, Metro
P23.
Guan Wei, 'Dodon't', Art/Text, P11, November 1997 - January 1998.
Benjamin Genocchio, 'Atalent gets surreal about nature', Business Review Weekly 17
November 97.
Victoria Hynes, 'The Artist's Wei', City Hub, 6 November 97. Sydney.
Felicity Fenner, 'The personal and the Political', Art Monthly, P28, November 1997.
Robert Rooney, 'The Cultural Revolution Shifts West', Guan Wei's 'Efficacy of Medicine' The
Australian
The Art of Friday, Aug. 15 1997.
'Art: A Bridge between Cultures', The Canberra Times Arts and Entertainment Section,
9/5/97.
Asian art at Australian National University Drill Hall Gallery ACT. (Catalogue)
1997 In-Out, Contemporary Art from Main Land China and Overseas. Lasalle SIA College
of the Arts Gallery, Singapore, Tour to Australia. (Catalogue)
Drift, Penrith Regional Gallery. (Catalogue)
Interview by ABC Radio, Australia.
1996 Karen Smith, 'Guan Wei at Red Gate Gallery' Asian Art News November/December 1996.
Sasha Grishia, Australian Printmaking in the 1990s, Artist Printmakers 1990-1995, P312-
313.
Ross Terrill, 'The Curtain Between Us', Guan Wei, 'Treasure Hunt No.11', The Australian
P14-15,9/10/96.
Robert Rooney, 'Above and Beyond' Art Review The Australian P12, 9 August.
Above and Beyond Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne; Institute of Modern
Art, Brisbane; 24 HR ART, Darwin; Contemporary Art Centre of SA, Adelaide, (catalogue).
Nikki Barrowclough - 'Lost in translation' The Sydney Morning Herald Good Weekend
Magazine. P48. 13 July.
Lan Findlay, 'Guan Wei at Hanart T Z Gallery' Asian Art News, P75, March/April, Hong
Kong.
Evelyn Juers, 'Spirit-man Guan Wei' Art and Australia P431, Vol33 #3 Autumn, Australia.
Guan Wei 'Magic Garden No.3,&7' Asian Art News, January/February, Inside Back Cover,
Hong Kong.
Emma Mclachlan - 'Magic Garden is definitely one for the files' Interview Sunday Standard
Hong Kong, 27 January.
Chang Tsong-Zung, 'Magic Garden' Solo exhibition Hanart T Z Gallery Hong Kong,
(catalogue).
'A Sense of Place' Bede Gallery, Jarrow , UK, (catalogue).
1995 Judy Annear, 'Juggler of Systems' Asian Art News, p54-55, Sep/Oct.
Art Review , Interviewed by Australian ABC TV Station,, Oct.
Bernice Murphy, 'Fabulous Engagements', Solo Exhibition Sherman Galleries, (catalogue).
Nicholas Jose, Chinese Whispers, Cover page - Sausage series.
The Collectable Eggbeater, Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, (catalogue).
Perspecta, Art Gallery Of New South Wales, Sydney, (catalogue).
Lauk Changan, 'The Great War of the Eggplant' Flash Art (Chinese), P72, Autumn, Italy.
1994 Localities of Desire, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, (catalogue).
Nicholas Jose, 'In search of the Charman' Art and Asia Pacific, Vol 1, No2, P82.
Peter Fray, 'Imports of Importance' The Bulletin, P34, 26 July, Australia.
Interviewed by Australian ABC Radio Station.
Interviewed by Canberra 2XX Radio Station.
Nicholas Jose, 'A Breathtaking Balancing Act' Solo Exhibition at Drill Hall Gallery ANU,
(catalogue).
1993 Guan Wei 'Test Tube Baby No.2' Art and Australia, P460, Winter.
Annette Hamiton, 'Trading Image', Art and Australia, P374 Autumn.
Emily Gibson, 'Here and Mao', The Sydney Morning Herald, blue page 3, 25 June.
Lauk Changan, 'The dialogue with ten Chinese artists', Artist, P216-229, Taiwan, May.
Silent Energy, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK, (catalogue).
New Art from China, Post-1989, Hong Kong Arts Centre, (catalogue).
Interviewed by Australian SBS TV Station.
1992 Guan Wei 'Venus Vanishing' Art & Australia, p242, Summer Edition, Australia.
Nicholas Jose, 'Brokering a Space New Chinese art 1989-92', Art Monthly, P9, September,
Australia.
Nicholas Jose, 'Notes from Underground, Beijing Art' Orientations, cover & P53, July, Hong
Kong,.
Chris Downie, 'New Wave' Art Monthly, p23, April, Australia.
Nicholas Jose, 'Guan Wei a Contemporary Chinese Artist' Agenda, P17, March/April,
Melbourne.
Lauk Changan, 'Ten years of the Chinese avant-garde', Flash Art, P111, January/February,
Italy.
Lu Peng & Yi Dan, '1979-1989 a history of China's modern art', P278, Hunan Fine Arts
Publishing House, Changsha, China.
Interviewed by Australia SBS TV Station.
1991 Guan Wei, 'Nesting - the art of idleness', Island, P8, Spring, Australia.
'Chinese Artist Guan Wei', Tasmania University Magazine, P16, November.
Elizabeth Liew, 'Guan Wei Portrait of an Artist-in-Residence at the Uni. of Tasmania',
CSAA Newsletter, Nov, (Chinese Studies Association of Australia).
Alison Barclay, 'A man with his art in two places', Herald-sun, Melbourne, P44, 31 October.
Nicholas Jose, 'Echoes of China' Sydney Review, Sydney, P7, Oct.
Sue-Anne Wallace, 'Postcards from Asia', Art Monthly, P14, May.
Jenny McFarlane, 'Art unfamiliar territory' Museum, P4, April, Canberra.
Sue-Anne Wallace, 'Drawing on Australia's Space', Canberra Times, P2, 20 March.
Interviewed by Australia ABC Radio Station.
1990 Roslyn Bernstein, 'China', Contemporary, P83, September, USA.
Interviewed by Spanish National TV Station.
90 International Youth Art Show, Paris, (catalogue).
1989 Interviewed by Australia ABC TV Station.
Guan Wei's Works, Artist, March, Spanish, p56.
1988 Geremie Barme & John Minford, 'Seeds of Fire: Chinese Voices of Conscience' P387-407,
New York, USA.
Four Artist Show, Jian Gou Men Wai Foreign Department, Beijing, (Catalogue).
Linda Jaivin,'Blowing his own trumpet' FarEestern Economic Review, P84-87, 24/3/88.
Collections
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Australian Art Bank.
Australian Embassy, Beijing.
Australian National University, Canberra.
Contemporary Art and Culture Centre, Osaka, Japan.
Campbelltown Art Gallery Sydney
Geelong Gallery VIC, Australia.
Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland.
Griffith University, Queensland.
Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong.
Ian Potter Gallery, Melbourne University.
Monash University VIC, Australia.
Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
National Gallery of Victoria.
Nillumbik Art Gallery VIC Australia.
Parliament House Canberra, Australia.
Parks Victoria Melbourne VIC.
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane.
Sydney Grammar School
Tokyo Gallery Japan.
University of New South Wales, Sydney.
University of Tasmania, Australia.
University of Technology, Sydney.
University of Western Sydney, Nepean.
Western Australian Art Gallery, Perth.
Wesfarmers West Australia.
Powerhouse Museum Sydney.
