Episode 4: Gu Xiong

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A professor at UBC’s Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory, Gu works with installation, painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, digital media and performance art. He has exhibited nationally and internationally, including more than sixty solo exhibitions and over one hundred group exhibitions. His works are in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, the China National Museum of Fine Arts and the Vancouver Art Gallery, among many other institutions and collections.

Gu’s practice centres on the creation of a hybrid identity arising from the integration of different cultural origins. Through the critical angle of visual art, his work encompasses the dynamics of migration, invisible labor, globalization, local culture, and seeks to create an entirely new identity.