Wenda Gu

Born in 1955 in Shangai, China

Lives and works in New York, USA

Education

 

1976

Shangai School of Art and Craft

1981

M.F.A., China Academy of Arts

Solo Exhibitions

 

2007

‘Forest of Stone Steles And United Nations : We are Fortunate Animals’ John Museum Of Art, NYC, USA. (20.01-14.03.07)

2006

Jiang Su Museum, Nanjing, China (09.10)

He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China, (11.11)

Art Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, USA, (15.09)

Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, China, (14.07- 31.12)

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA, (02.09.06 - 01.07)

Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA, (05.10)

Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy

California State University at Fullerton, USA, (09.09)

China Institute, New York City, USA, (28. 09)

2004 

‘Forest of Stone Steles - Retranslation & Rewriting Tang Poetry’, Hong Kong Performing Arts Center, Asia Cultural Co-Operation HoUKm, Hong Kong

‘Wenda Gu: Middle Kingdom to Biological Millennium’, Institute of

Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, USA

‘Wenda Gu: Art from Middle Kingdom to Biological Millennium’, Art Museum, Bates College, Maine, USA

Wenda Gu’s Wedding Life #6’, An Art Performance, Art Museum, Bates

‘College, Maine, USA

‘Wenda Gu’s Phrase Neon Project ‘Fu Lai Jia Mo’’, Salvatore Ferragamo, 5th avenue, New York, USA

2003

‘Wenda Gu: from Middle Kingdom to Biological Millennium’, University of North Texas, USA

‘Wenda Gu: from Middle Kingdom to Biological Millennium’, Kansas Art Institute, Kansas City, USA

2001

‘Translation & Intersection - Wenda Gu’s New Installations’, National

Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia

‘Tug of War’, an Art Performance, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia

‘Wenda Gu’s Wedding Life - Germany’, An Art Performance, The House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany

‘Wenda Gu’s Selected Works’, Hanart Gallery, Hong Kong, China

‘Ink Alchemy #3’, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, Australia

‘Ink Alchemy #1’, Enrico Navarra Gallery, Paris, France

2000 

‘United Nations-Great Wall of The Millennium’, Art Center, New York State University, Buffalo, USA

‘Wenda Gu’s Wedding Life - Japan’, An Art Performance, Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Japan

‘Wenda Gu’s Wedding Life - Hong Kong’, An Art Performance, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, China

1999

‘United Nations-Babel of The Millennium’, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA

‘Wenda Gu’s Wedding Life - America’, An Art Performance, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, USA

1998

‘United Nations-Vancouver Monument: The Metamorphosis’, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

'Confucius Diary’, An Art Performance, Downtown Vancouver, Canada

1997 

‘United Nations-Hong Kong Monument : The Historical Clash’, made for Hong Kong Handover 1997, Hanart Gallery, Hong Kong

'United Nations-Taiwan Monument: The Mythos of Lost Dynasties’, Hanart Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

‘Blackness’, A Solo Art Performance, Hanart Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

1996 

‘United Nations-Usa Monument #2: Dreamerica’, Steinbaum Krauss

Gallery, New York City, USA

‘United Nations-Britain Monument: The Maze’, Angel Row Gallery,

Nottingham, Camerawork, Londres, UK

‘The Mythos of Lost Dynasties’, Binet Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israël

1995

‘Enigma Beyond Joy & Sin’, Alternative Museum, New York City, USA

‘United Nations-Usa Monument #1: Post-Cmoellotniinaglpiostm’, Space Untitled Gallery, New York City, USA

‘The Enigma of Blood’, in Khan Gallery, New York City, USA

1994

‘Enigma Beyond Joy & Sin’, Main Gallery, The University of Rhode Island, USA

‘United Nations-Italy Monument: God & Children’, Enrico Gariboldi Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy

‘Enigma Beyond Joy & Sin’, Berlin Shafire Gallery, New York City, USA

1993

‘The Mythos of Lost Dynasties’, Hanart Gallery, Hong Kong

1992

Enrico Gariboldi Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy

Wallace Anderson Gallery, Bridgewater State University, USA

1990

‘Two Thousand National Deaths’, Hatley Martin Gallery, San Francisco, USA

‘Red Black White Desert’, University Art Museum, California State

University, Long Beach & Los Angeles Festival 1990

DP Fong Gallery, San Jose, USA

1987

University Art Gallery, York University, Toronto, Canada

Yangtze Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada

1986

Artist Gallery, Xian, China

Group Exhibitions

2007

'85 New Wave: the birth of Chinase contemporary art’, Ullens foundation,   UCCLA, Pekin, China (05.11.07 - 17.02.08)

2006

‘BUKsh and Ink: The Chinase art of Writing’, Metropolitan Museum of Art of New-York, USA

2004

Chinase Calligraphy Exhibition at National Gallery of Malaysia, Malaysie

‘Contemporary Chinase Painting’, Art Museum, Wooster College, Ohio, USA

‘Contemporary Chinase Painting’, Bowling Green State University, Ohio, USA

‘20th Anniversary Exhibition of Hanart Gallery’, Celebration of at Hong Kong Arts Center, China Exhibition at Bucknell College, USA

Gettysburg College, USA

‘Ink Painting Collection of Shanghai Art Museum’, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China

Art Gallery, University of Pittsburgh, Penn, USA

4th Shenzhen International Ink Painting Biennale, Shenzhen Museum of Art, China Exhibition at Bard College, USA

‘Working in Brooklyn’, Brooklyn Museum of Art, USA

2003

‘United Nations World Heritage’, Macau Tower, China

‘Radical Line’, Fine Arts Galleries, Bowling Green State University, USA

‘United Nations World Heritage’, Nanjing Museum of Art, China

‘United Nations World Heritage’, China National Gallery, Beijing, China

Mayer Art Center, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hamp, USA

Pacific Asia Museum, Los Angeles, USA

Sherman Gallery, Sydney, Australia

2002

‘New Way of Tea’, Asia Society and Museum, New York, USA

‘The Nomad Trilogy Tea’, A Stage Design for Yin Mei’s Solo Dance, Asia Society, New York, USA

‘The Babel Tower’, National Gallery of Contemporary Art, Seoul Corée

‘First Guangzhou Triannal’, Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou, China

‘Site-Sight’, Singapore Arts Festival, Asian Civilizations Museum, Singapour

‘The Gesture’, Heidi Neuhoff Gallery, New York City, USA

‘Translated Acts’, Carrillo Gil Museum, Mexico City, Mexique

‘Translations / Transgressions’, Art Gallery, University of Rhode Island, USA

‘Peking - Paris’, Espace Cardin, Paris, France

2001

‘Power of Word’, Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, USA

‘20 Years of China Contemporary Ink Paintings’, Guangdong Art Museum, Guangzhou, China

‘Words vs. Meaning’, University of Ohio, USA

‘Re : Duchamp’, 49th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

‘3rd Mercosul Biennale’, Brésil

‘Tradition& Transnationalism’, University of Tennessee, USA

‘Second Biennale of Asian Contemporary Art’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Genova, Italy

‘Translated Acts - South East Asia Performance Art’, World Culture Center, Berlin, Germany

‘Translated Acts - South East Asia Performance Art’, Queens Museum of Art, New York City, USA

‘Abstract Ink Painting’, Xi’an Convention Center, Xi’an, China

‘First Chendu Biennale’, Chengdu, China

‘Re : Duchamp’, 7th International Istanbul Biennale, Turquie

‘China Without Border’, Sotheby’s Event, New York, USA

‘Power of Word’, Art Museum, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA

‘Power of Word’, Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga, New York, USA

2000

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Angleterre, UK

‘Power of The Word’, Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Iowa, USA

Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan

‘Conceptualist Art : Points of Origin 1950s-1980s’, Miami Art Museum, Florida, USA

‘Contemporary Art Collection of Shanghai Art Museum’, Grand Opening of Shanghai Art Museum

‘Neo-Chinase Painting’, Liu Haisu Art Museum, Shanghai, China

‘Neo-Chinase Painting’, Jiangsu Art Museum, China

‘Man & Space’, 3rd Kwangju Biennale, Corée du Sud

‘Invisible Boundary - Asian Section of Kwangju Biennale Traveling

Exhibition’, Utsunomiya Muse Um of Art, Japan

‘Invisible Boundary - Asian Section of Kwangju Biennale Traveling

Exhibition’, The Niigata Prefec Tural Civic Center Gallery; Niigata, Japan

‘Sharing Exoticisms’, 5th Lyon Biennale, Lyon, France

Alisan Gallery, Hong Kong, China

‘Wall’, Taiwan Museum of History, Taipei, Taiwan

‘Insideout - Chinase New Art’, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong

‘Futuro’, Contemporary Art Center of Macau, China

‘Insideout - Chinase New Art’, National Gallery of Australia, Canbrra, Australia

‘The Big Apple Ink Painting’, Kaikodo, New York City, USA

‘Words vs. Meaning’, Arts Center, New York State University at Buffalo, USA

‘Power & Tenderness’, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taiwan

‘Power of Word’, Victoria Albert Museum, Londres, Angleterre, UK

‘Conceptual Calligraphy’, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York City, USA

1999  

‘Biennale of Asian Contemporary Art’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Genova, Italy

‘Power of Word’, Taiwan Museum of Art, Taizhong, Taiwan

‘South East Asia Letter Art’, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Corée

‘Conceptualist Art: Points of Origin 1950s-1980s’, Queens Museum of Arts, New York City, USA

‘Conceptualist Art: Points of Origin 1950s-1980s’, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA

‘Insideout - New Chinase Art’, Asian Art Museum San Francisco, USA

‘Insideout - New Chinase Art’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Monterrey, Mexique

‘Cross Culture’, Gang Gallery, New York City, USA

‘Insideout-New Chinase Art’, Henry Art Gallery, Washington University, Seattle, USA

‘Transience’, Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago

Iton Park, Taipei, Taiwan

‘Word on Word’, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York City, USA

‘Transience’, University Art Museum, University of Oregon, USA

‘Transience’, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmont College, USA

1998

Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York City, USA

‘First Shenzhen Ink Painting Biennale’, Guanshanyui Art Museum, Shenzhen, China

Art Beatus Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

‘Asian American Artists: Cross-Cultural Voices’ University Art Gallery

Staller Center for the Arts, State University of New York, Stony Brook,

USA

‘Global Roots: Chinase Artists Working in New York’, University Galleries, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA

‘Insideout-New Chinase Art’, Asia Society, Ps1 Museum, New York City, USA

‘Beyond the Form’, Cork Gallery, Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, New York City, USA

‘Second Shanghai Biennale’, Shanghai Art Museum, China

1997

‘Second Johannesburg Biennale’, Afrique du Sud

Hong Kong Handover 1997, New Convention Center, Hong Kong

‘Auto-Portrait: The Power of Calligraphy’, Exit Art, New York City, USA

‘Tradition & Inovation-Twentieth Century Chinase Painting’, Koln Asian Art Museum, Germany

‘China Turns’, Ida Gallery, York University, Toronto, Canada

‘China New Art’, Salina Art Center, Kansas, USA

‘Diversity’, Artopia Gallery, New York City, USA

‘China New Art’, San Jose Museum. of Art, USA

‘In Between Limits’, Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Corée

‘China New Art’, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, USA

1996

‘Interpol’, Center for Contemporary Art & Architecture, Contemporary Art Center of Moscow, Stockholm, Suède

‘Scratch’, Thread Waxing Space, New York City, USA

‘Twentieth Century Chinase Painting-Tradition & Innovation’, The British Museum, Londres, Angleterre

‘China New Art’, Kemper Museum, Kansas City, USA

‘Twentieth Century Chinase Painting-Tradition & Innovation’, National Art Museum, Singapour

‘China New Art’, University Art Museum, University of Oregon, USA

‘First Shanghai Biennale’, Shanghai Art Museum, China

‘China New Art’, Fort Wayne Museum, in USA, USA

1995

‘New Art in China’, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

‘Twentieth Century Chinase Painting-Tradition & Innovation’, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong

Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York City, USA

‘5th ConstUKction in Process’, Mitzpe Ramon Desert, Israel

1994

‘New Art in China’, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

‘Heart of Darkness’, The Kroller-Muller Museum, Pays-Bas Art Omi, New York, USA

‘Site-Action’, The Artists Project, England & The Artists’ Museum, Poland

The Discovery Museum, USA

Belcher Studio Gallery, San Francisco, USA

‘Flesh & Ciphers’, Here Foundation, New York City, USA

1993

‘Silent Energy’, Modern Art Museum, Oxford, Angleterre

‘Fragmented Memory’, Wexner Center for The Arts, Ohio, USA

‘Mao Goes Pop’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia

‘4th ConstUKction in Process’, The Artists’ Museum, History Museum ogf Lodz, Poland

‘Melbourne International Festival 1993’, Melbourne, Australia

‘Semblances’, Ise Foundation Gallery, New York City, USA

Saw Gallery, Ontario, Canada

Art Space, Ontario, Canada

‘Post-89-China Avant-Garde’, Hanart Gallery & Hong Kong Arts Center, Hong Kong

Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York City, USA

1992   

‘Desire for Words’, Hong Kong Art Center& Hanart Gallery, Hong Kong

‘Conversations’, The Artists’ Museum, Lodz, Poland

‘Signals’, Gallery Korea, New York City, USA

1991

‘New York Diary-25 Different Things’, PS1 Museum, New York City, USA

Vanishing 36 Pigment Golden Sections, A Permanent Land Art, Museum

City Project, Fukuoka Japan

‘Exceptional Passage-China Contemporary Art’, Art Gallery Altium, Fukuoka, Japan

1990

‘De-’, A Permanent Land Art Project, France

1989

‘No U Turn-China Avant-Garde’, China National Art Museum, Beijing, China

‘Blackness’, Hanart Gallery, Hong Kong

'Blackness’, Hanart Gallery, Taiwan

‘Neo-Tradition’, Neodenfjeldske Kunstindstrimudeum, Norvège

‘9th Annual Birren’, Saa Gallery, USA

1988

‘Scripta Manent’, La Gleris Dea Arts Lavalin, Montreal, Canada

‘13th International Biennale Tapestry’, Musee Cantonal des Beaux- Arts, Lausanne, Suisse

‘Contemporary Tapestry of China’, Shanghai Exhibition Hall, China

‘China Calligraphy Today’, Japan

‘National Exhibition of Calligraphy’, China National Art Museum, Pékin, China

‘The Last Show of 1986’, Hangzhou Cultural Center, China

‘6th National Exhibition of China’, China National Art Museum, Pékin, China

1985

‘Selected Contemporary Ink Painting from China’, Japan

‘National Art Exhibition of Sports’, China National Art Museum, Pékin, China

‘Neo-Ink Painting Invitational of China’, Wuhan Exhibition Center, China

1979

‘Shanghai Art Exhibition’, Shanghai Art Museum, China

Collections

China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China

Shanghai Museum of Art, Shanghai, China

China National Sports Association, Pékin, China

China National Art Museum, Pékin, China

The British Museum, Londres, Angleterre

York University, Toronto, Canada

Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA

Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong

Royal Hapsburg Collection, Germany

Kent & Vicki Logan Art Foundation, San Francisco, USA

Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, USA

Deste Foundation, Grèce

Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Angleterre

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA

Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA

Asia Society and Museum, Hong Kong Center, USA

Denver Museum of Art, Colorado, USA

Smart Museum, University of Chicago, USA

Collections privées

 

Books in alphabetic order

“international perspectives on art and culture”, documentary sources in contemporary art #6th, mit press and the new museum of contemporary art, 2004, new york, usa

“wenda gu - from middle kingdom to biological millennium”, mit press, usa

“global conceptualist art-points of origin 1950s-1980s”, queens museum of art, 1999, new york city, usa

“the artists’ museum-international provisional artists’ community”, 1997, lodz, poland

“tradition & innovation-twentieth century chinese painting”, hong kong museum of art, 1996, hong kong

contemporary chinese painting, duoyunxuan, shanghaluenchaicurios, hong kong, gao chien-hui, “affter origin”, taiwan 2003

david clock, “chinese contemporary art at the new millennium, sydney, australia

xu gan,“selected readings”, the international visual literacy association, penn. state university, usa

laura hoptman and tomas pospiszyl “primary documents: a sourcebook for eastern and central european art since the 1950s”, the museum of modern art and mit press, 2002, usa

lu hong, “contemporary art in china - conceptual art”, 2000, shenzhen, china

lu hong, “contemporary art in china - ink painting art”, 2000, shenzhen, china

wu hong, “transience-chinese experimental art at the end of twentieth century”,

university of chicago press, 1999 usa

glenis israel, “artwise”, pp. 101 - 106, john willey & sons australia ltd, australia 2003

michael kampen o'riley, “art beyond the west”, lawrence king ltd and harry n. abrams and prentice hall, 2001, usa

sharon leece, “china style,” periplus, 2002, p. 41, hong kong, china

edward lucie-smith, “art tomorrow”, fall 2002, london, england

edward lucie-smith, “visual arts in twentieth century” harry n. abrams, inc., publishers, new york city, usa

edward lucie-smith, “art today”, phaidon press, london, england

janet marquardt & stephen eskilson, “frames of reference - art, history, and the world”, p. 346, lau rence king publishing ltd. london, england 2004

janet marquardt and stephen eskilson: "issues in visual culture" laurence king ltd, 2004, london, england

gao minglu, “inside out-new chinese art”, university of california press, berkeley, 1998, usa

gao minglu, “china contemporary art history”, people’s press of shanghai, 1991, shanghai, china

gao mushen, “a thought history of chinese painting”, p.339, san ming publisher, taiwan

peter osborne, “conceptual art”, page servey, phaidon press, spring 2002, london, england

lu pingtian, “schools and styles of chinese painting in twentieth century”, guang xi fine arts pub lisher, 2000, xining, china

xiao qiongrui, selected art criticism on taiwanese art 1991, yian huang art and

education press, taipei, taiwan

marilyn stokstad, “art history”, second edition, harry n. abrams and prentice hall, 2001, new york city,usa

michael sullivan, “art and artists of twentieth century china”, university of california press, 1996, usa

caroline turner, “tradition & change-contemporary art of asia and pacific”, university of queensland press, 1994, australia

linda weintraub, “in the making - creative thoughts”, pp.295-303, distributed art publishers, new york, usa, 2003

wenda gu, lu fushen, xu jianrong, “chinese ink painting in twenty-first century”,

shanghai fine arts publisher, china

Television, radio, film

2003

“hair”, egg the arts, trio tv net work, new york, usa

interview, kcur radio, kansas city, june 13, usa

2002

“first guangzhou triennial”, china central television station, beijing, china

“first guangzhou triennial”, hunan tv station, changsha, china

wenda gu’s “united nations - man & space at grand opening of esplanade, prime time news, singapore nation tv station, oct. 13, 2002

“from middle kingdom to biological millennium - wenda gu’s art creation” shanghai oriental television, shanghai, china

“interview with wenda gu”, shanghai oriental television, shanghai, china

wenda gu’s hair art, ege the art show, channel 13, pbs, march 26, 2002, new york, usa

2001

wenda gu’s hair art, ege the art show, channel 13, pbs, april 2001, new york, usa

prim time news, australia broadcasting corporation, australia

2000

insideout- new chinese art, star tv station, oct. 1, 2000, hong kong, china

insideout- new chinese art, cable tv station, hong kong, china sharing exoticisms - lyon biennale, national tv station of france, paris, 2000

invisible boundary - asian section of kwangju biennale traveling exhibition, niigata prefecture tv station, japan

asian art - man & space, new sunday museum, april 9th, 2000, japan

broadcasting corporation, tokyo, japan

new chinese ink painting, star space of arts, may 27, 2000, china central television station, beijing, china

chinese new art, radio australia, june 2, 2000, canberra, australia

3rd kwangju biennale - man & space, kwangju cultural tv station, korea, 2000

3rd kwangju biennale - man & space, korea television & broadcasting, seoul, korea,

1999   

german radio station, berlin, 1999

live interview on united nations art project, vermont radio station, vermont, usa

1998  

live talk on asia pacific forum, wbai 99.5am new york radio station, 9pm, nov. 11, 1998, new york city, usa

under wraps is selected as among 10 films from 22nd margaret mead film & video festival to travel as many as 10 universities including berkeley and princeton universities across north america.

under wraps premiere at margaret mead film & video festival, american museum of natural his tory, nov. 7, 9, 1998, new york city, usa

second shanghai biennale, oct. 20, 1998, shanghai television station,

shanghai, china

inside out-china contemporary art at asia society and ps1 contemporary

art center, city arts, channel 13, 0ct. 14, 1998, new york city, usa

china 5000 years exhibition at guggenheim, august 1998, china

central tv station, beijing, china

china 5000 years exhibition at guggenheim, may 1998, free asia radio station, d.c. usa

1997

united nations-africa monument:the praying wall, south africa broad

casting corporation, johan nesburg, south africa, 1997

second johannesburg biennale, german national television station,

germany, 1997

second johannesburg biennale, south africa broadcasting corporation, south africa, 1997

united nations-african monument: the praying wall, pm life radio station, south africa broadcasting corporation, 1997

under wraps was selected as the best cultural documentary film in the film festival hot docs, toronto, canada

interview with free asia radio station, washington d.c. usa

“united nations-taiwan monument: the mythos of lost dynasties,” u2-rebar telecommunications co., ltd., may 12, 1997, taiwan

pamela ferris, “united nations-hong kong monument: the historical clash,” hong kong art beat radio station, july 4, 1997, hong kong

“united nations-hong kong monument: the historical clash,” chinese tv net work, july 14, hong kong

“united nation-hong kong monument: the historical clash,” sistemabralian national tv station, july 4, 1997, hong kong

under wraps, toronto television station, march 11, 1997, canada

under wraps, knowledge network station, april 29, 1997, toronto, canada

under wraps, ontario television station, april 30, 1997, canada

under wraps, communications network television station, may 7, 1997, canada

1996 

under wraps, starry night productions inc., vancouver, canada

the enigma of blood, german cable tv station, germany

united nations-sweden and russia monument: interpol incident, swedish national tv, channels 1, 2, & 3 news, feb. 3, 1996, stockholm, sweden

united nations-britain monument: the maze, bbc tv., morning news, july 2, 1996, nottingham, england

united nations-britain monument: the maze, bbc tv., prime evening news july 2, 1996, notting ham, england

united nations-usa monument 2: dreamerica, chinese television network, april 1996, new york- hong kong

united nations-britain monument: the maze, bbc radio station, life live interview, june 19, 1996, nottingham, england

1995

united nations-israel monument: the holy land, israeli national tv station prime-time news, april, 1995 tel aviv, israel

united nations-usa monument, art news, channel 13, new york city, usa

1987

china art today, zdf-the second national tv station of germany

china avant-garde, china central tv station, beijing, china

the second nature of human, zhejiang tv station, hangzhou, china

Academic records

2004

lecture at the university of pittsburgh, usa

lecture at the chinese university, hong kong, china

speech at the asia cultural co-operation forum, hong kong, china, 2004

gan xu present a paper on wenda gu’s art at sackler museum, harvard university, may 15, 2004

zhou yan delivers "re-interpreting tradition at the discursive level: gu

wenda's art of written lan guage and its cultural context,” asian

contemporary art conference, singapore, 2004

wenda gu’s lecture at fashion institute of technology, new york city

“interplay” for the “on language”, university of minnesota, usa

lecture at gettysburg college, penn, usa visiting artist at maine college of art, portland, usa

panel discussion with melissa chiu at gallery 20, new york city, usa

david cateforis delivers a lecture "wenda gu: global artist of the chinese  avant-garde," lamar dodd school of art, university of georgia, athens, georgia, usa

panel discussion with david hwang, sherley yang, mabel cabot at amory asian exposition of asia week, new york, usa

david cateforis delivers a lecture "wenda gu: global artist of the chinese avant-garde," annual meeting of the midwest art history society, notre dame university, south bend, indiana

2003

symposium on wenda gu’s art transnation at university of north texas. speakers: david cateforis, melissa chiu, rob erdle, jennifer purtle, harold tanner, gan xu, jennifer way, wenda gu.

assembly lecture at phillips exeter academy, new hampshire, usa

lecture at central university, seoul, south korea

lecture at milwaukee art museum ,wisconsin, usa

lecture at gettysburg college, usa

wenda gu symposium at nelson altkins museum of art, kansas city,

speakers: david cateforis, melis sa chiu, eleanor heartney, xiaoneng yang, mark bessire, gan xu, wenda gu.

lecture for china institute, new york, usa

lecture for maine college of art, maine, usa

conference on wenda gu’s art, kansas art institute, kansas city, usa

conference on wenda gu’s art, maine college of art, south portland, usa

lecture at lecture at trammel crow collection of asian art, dallas, usa

third international convention of asia scholars (icas3), singapore

lecture at institute of contemporary art at maine college of art, usa

lecture at kansas art institute, kansas, usa

2002

lecture at cultural department, macao

lecture at new your state university at buffalo, new york, usa

jury for macao arts festival, 2003, macao

lecture at new your state university at buffalo, new york, usa

jury for macao arts festival, 2003, macao

lecture for maine college of art, portland, usa

panel discussion at esplanade, singapore

2001

he is selected as the most influential visual artists of the twentieth century of china by the forum of centennial art of china art on line: www.cl2000.com.

candidate for a honorary doctorate, maine college of art, usa

lecture at university of north texas, usa

lecture at university of tennessee, usa

lecture at tufts university, usa

lecture for art college of maine, usa

2000

lecture at design school, harvard university, boston, usa

panel discussion, new york university, usa

“identity in art,” online penal discussion, museum of telephone in rio de janeiro, brazil

lecture at hong kong museum of art, hong kong

lecture at national gallery of australia, canberra, australia

lecture at utsunomiya museum of art, japan

lecture at the niigata prefectural civic center gallery; niigata, japan

1999  

jour of students fellowship, chicago art institute, 1999, usa

lecture, hood museum of art, dartmouth college, usa

lecture and critique, college of art, maine, usa

lecture and critique, stanford university, california, usa

panel discussion, san francisco museum of modern art, usa

panel discussion, asian art museum, san francisco, usa

1998

panel discussion, school of visual art, new york city, usa

guest professor, cooper union, new york city, usa

zhou yan, ohio state university, the dept. of the history of art, doctoral dissertation

1997   

lecture, university of chicago, usa

the great divide: another battle in the cultural wars, penal discussion,

artists talk on art, new york city, usa, 1997

interview with wenda gu , johannesburg biennale on line, the new school new york city, usa

lecture, salina art center, salina, kansas, usa

gan xu, “wenda gu’s ‘united nations’ hair installations,” a lecture at new england east asian art history seminar, leverett house, harvard university, usa

1996

lecture, royal academy of art, stockholm, sweden

panelist in, “morals in contemporary cultural & artistic reality controversial experience of my art creation”, international art conference, object vs pixels, amsterdam, the netherlands

1995  

xu gan, university of ohio, art history department completes doctoral

dissertation entitled, shape of ideas: minimalization as the structural

device in selective works of samuel beckett and wenda gu

jenny lee, fit, new york city, completes ma thesis entitled,install the global culture: wenda gu’s installation art project ‘united nations’ transcends the east-west culture

monique sartor, university of venice, italy, completes doctoral dissertation entitled wenda gu and china avant-garde movement

1994

juror for international artists residence, p.s.1 museum. ny, usa

danielle chang, columbia university, new york city, completes ma thesis, wenda gu’s globalization in his art

wen da gu’s installations, oedipus refound #1:the enigma of blood,

oedipus refound #2: the enigma of birth, & united nations selected for sex & gender in art course, marymount manhattan college, new york, usa

lecture at university of rhode island, usa

1993

lecture at bridgewater state university, ma, usa

‘90-91  associate professor, university of minnesota, usa

1990

jason kuo, professor of williams college art department, lectured on wenda gu’s art & his time, in caa conference, san francisco, usa

usa lecture tour at san francisco art institute; california state university, san jose, washington university, seattle; university of minnesota, minneapolis; university of minnesota, duluth; minneapolis

art institute; minneapolis school of design

visiting artist at university of minnesota

1989 

lectures: oslo art academy & bergen institute of arts & crafts, norway

1988

xu gan, vanderbilt university, completes mfa thesis entitled, wenda & his art & his time

1987

lectures at york university, toronto, canada

1986  

lecture at china national conference for chinese art theory, xian, china 1986 member of china artists association, china

1982

member of china landscape painting association, china

‘81-87  lecturer, china national academy of fine arts, china

Awards

2004  

a book “wenda gu - art from middle kingdom to biological millennium” won the publications second award of the american museum association, usa

a book “wenda gu - art from middle kingdom to biological millennium” won the publications design award of the new england museum association, usa

the award of art document magazine, china

1997

grant of the pollack-krasner foundation, new york city, usa

1987   

the canada council for visiting foreign artists, toronto, canada

excellent writing, art trend, china

second prize of calligraphy & sel carving, china national museum art

museum, beijing, china

1986

excellent work, 6th national art exhibition of china, china national art

museum, beijing, china

1985

second prize of china national art exhibition of sports, china national art museum, beijing, china