Also known as Guo Xin-Ping

September 7th 1961. Born in Shanghai. Currently resides in Song Zhuang Artist Village, Tongzhou District Beijing. A Professional painter

1983 to 1987. Taken a leave from work and took a self-funded bicycle tour around the country to study folk art. This was hailed as “a great act in Chinese art history” by Guan Shan-Yue, Liao Bing-Xiong.

1990 to 1995. Lived and worked in the Old Summer Palace Artist Village.

1994. Created a huge wall mural at the Maastricht International Airport in Holland. Wu Jian-Ning, the Chinese ambassador to Holland at that time, was present at the opening ceremony.

1999. Invited to Mobile, Alabama in the United States to participate in the International Art Festival. Awarded an “Honorable Citizen” by Mobile city.

2003. Participated in the “Prayer Beads and Brushwork” Exhibition organized by Li Xian-Ting and sponsored by Beijing 798 Factory Tokyo Art Project.

2004. Invited to France to participate in the Sino-France Culture Year events.

2005. Exhibition in the Bizu Gallery of Guangdong Museum of Art.  Work New Women was acquired by Guangdong Museum of Art.

2007. Invited by the Goethe Institute in Frankfurt to the inauguration of Confucius Institute and held an exhibition of recent graphic art works

My paintings reflect Chinese concepts and Chinese realities. What are Chinese realities? I cannot use Tibet to represent China. Nor can I use Chairman Mao to represent China. The Chinese realities in our eyes have Toyotas, as well as horse and cattle led carts; skyscrapers as well as huts; people who believe in Capitalism as well as those who believe in Communism. We cannot use a single attitude to treat the complex whole of China. The Chinese realities give me the sense of “multitude”, the sense of “complexity”, the sense of “chaos”. Therefore in my paintings, there are images and signs; past and present; folk and personal, national and western. My education and life experience have taught me that this is my understanding of the Chinese realities.

I am most touched by Lao Tzu in Chinese philosophy. The idea of seeming to be and not to be, and having something and nothing, is very intriguing.

2007
Yi Ling, Guo Xinping