Guo Jian
| 郭健 (Pinyin: Guō Jiàn) | |
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| Born | January 26, 1962 |
| Nationality | Chinese Australian |
| Occupation | Artist, painter, sculptor, photographer |
Guo Jian (Chinese: 郭健; pinyin: Guō Jiàn; born in Guizhou China in 1962) is a Chinese Australian artist. His work has been exhibited and collected in Germany, France, Belgium, Sweden, USA, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and China, including Musée de Picardie in France, Brussels Art Festival, the Art Gallery Of New South Wales, the Queensland Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) and the National Gallery of Australia (NGA).
He has been featured in The New York Times,CNN, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC),Artist Profile magazine and on the cover of The Wall Street Journal Asia Weekend Magazine.
He is part of a movement of contemporary Chinese artists whose work is characterised as Cynical Realism, which began in the 1990s in Beijing. Born a year after the Great Leap Forward, his art is heavily influenced by the last fifty years of political upheaval and violence in China, a period that included the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in the 1960s and 70s, the Sino Vietnamese war in the early 1980s, and the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989.
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