1963
Born Guizhou, China
Education
1985-9
BA in Chinese Painting & Literature, China Central Minorities Institute, Beijing, China
1996-7
English Language, TAFE, Sydney, Australia
Experience
1978-9
Truck driver
1979-83
Soldier & Squad leader, People's Liberation Army and Military Artist
1983-5
Cadre in transport company Union
1985-9
Studied at the Art Department of the Central Minorities Institute, Beijing Rejected job
placement in countryside after participation in the 1989 hunger strike, Tiananmen Square, Beijing.
1989
Resident & Artist, Yuan Ming Yuan Artist's Village, Beijing
1992
Migrated to Sydney, Australia
1994-5
Residency in Beijing, in collaboration with Yuan Ming Yuan Artist's Village
Exhibitions
2006
Guo Jian, Arc One Gallery, 2006
2005
Winter at Arc One Gallery, Melbourne
2004
The day before I went away, ACMI - Australian Centre for Moving Images & SBS, Melbourne, Australia
Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2003
Liverpool Art Prize, Liverpool, NSW, Australia
Bendigo Art Prize, Bendigo, Vic, Australia
2002
Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
The Year in Art exhibition S H Ervin Gallery, Sydney Australia
Bubbles of Yum, Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney, Australia (Solo)
2001
Mama's Trippin', Heidi Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne (Solo)
2000
Australian Drawing Biennale, Drill Hall, ANU, Canberra
Mama's Trippin, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Gorman House, Canberra (Solo)
Contemporary Australian Art, Musee de Picardie, Amiens, France
thinking aloudÉa drawing show, Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney
2000
Chinese Australian Art, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
1999
Trigger Happy, Ray Hughes Gallery, Sydney (Solo)
1998
Double Happiness is a Warm Gun, Tin Sheds Gallery, University of Sydney(Solo)
Beyond China, Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery, Sydney
1997
3 x 3 Demonstration Art, Sydney
1996
3 x 3 (video), touring Berlin, Germany & Auckland, New Zealand
1994
Little Bastards, Headspace Gallery, Sydney (Solo)
1992
Yuanmingyan Artists Exhibition, Brussels Art Gallery, Belgium
Forest Art Exhibition, Beijing, China
Studio 149 (joint exhibition) Yuan Ming Yuan, Beijing
1990
Paintings of Guo Jian and Zhang Ge, Beijing Art Gallery, China & Beijing Friendship Hotel
1988
China Central Minorities Institute Selection, China Art Gallery, Beijing
1981
Provincial Military Art Exhibition, Yunan, China
Prizes
1st Prize, Fisher's Ghost Art Prize, Campbelltown City Art Gallery
1st Prize, Liverpool Arts Prize, Casula Powerhouse, 2003
Collections
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery
Global Resources, Los Angeles, USA
Private collections in China, Mexico, Sweden, Belgium, New Zealand and Australia
Commissions
2000-4
Big Day Out, Trigger Happy, used as backdrop for main stage of festival
2000-5
Gilberson Ð Revolution, Artwork used as the backdrop and theme of the bandÕs
music video clip
2000-6
Visible Arts Foundation Installation Art Project, Republic Tower, Melbourne
Bibliography
Auty, Giles, Beyond the Crange, Review, The Australian 25 April 1998
Author not sited, Drawing Biennale at Drill Hall, ANU Reporter, Vol.31 No. 17, 15 December, 2000
Barron, Sonia, Broad Spectrum, The Canberra Times, 2nd December, 2000
Benocchio, Benjamin, Home and Away, SMH, March 27, 1998
Beyond China, Exhibition catalogue, Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery 1998
Cerabona, Ron, Vision of Liberation & Subversion, (Canberra Publication), October 2000
Cousins, Kerry-Anne, The Australian Drawing Biennale, Muse, December, 2000
Grishin, Sasha, Trip Through Vibrant View of Subversion, The Canberra Times, 27 September 2000
Grishin, Sasha, Unfettered Creativity a Boon, City Times, 30 March 1998
Hynes, Victoria, Brash Strokes, SMH Metro, May 3-9, 2002
Jackson, Davina, Ritual Laughter, The Australian, 5 October, 2001
Jaivin, Linda and Nicholas Jose, Guo Jian, MamaÕs TrippinÕ, catalogue, Canberra Contemporary
Artspace
Liu, Halou, Dong Hua Shibao, 21 September 1998
McDonald, John, The Cultural Revolution, December 2002
McDonald, John, Bubbles of Yum, The World of Antiques & Art, July Ð December, 2002
McDonald, John, After the Party, Spectrum Arts, SMH, 2nd May 1998
Mordue, Mark, Mao Now, Madison Magazine, USA, August 2000
Mordue, Mark, Red Light, HQ Magazine, July 2000
Sarzin, Anna, Exorcising Chinese Demons from an ArtistÕs Soul, Uni of Sydney, News 8 October, 1998
Skillbeck, Ruth, Guo Jian É, Black and White Magazine, March 2000
Smee, Sebastian, Mad, Bad and Hilarious to Know, SMH, December 11, 1999
Smee, Sebastian, Grotesque Ire, Metro, SMH, December 11, 1999
Style Set Warms to Summer Show, The Sunday Telegraph, p. 23, July 2000
Svendesn, Ingrid, Art that Stops Traffic, 2001
Taylor, Jarrad, Asian Artists in Australia, Australian Connections, October 1999
Taylor, Joni, More than Mao, City Hub Arts, 9 December 1999
Timms, Peter, Of Politics & Impotent Despair, The Australian February 2001
Verrall, Jennifer, The Big Picture, The Age, 6 February 2002
Ward, Peter, Tribute to a State of Grapes, The Australian, 5th October, 2001
Wu Hung (Editor), Chinese Art at the Crossroads: Between Past and Future, Between East and West,
New Art Media, 2001
Zhu Dake, Excitement: Guo Jian and His Paintings, 24 September 1998
