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Bio

Xingzi (C/Kat) Gu is a painter who also engages with performance recurrently. Their work delineates the anomalous subjects that reside in poetic tales. Recently, they exhibited/performed at Anonymous Gallery, O’Flaherty’s Gallery, Latitude Gallery, NY. Publication mentioning includes Art in America and Art Maze Magazine. They participated in residencies at Dark Study and Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art.

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Xingzi Gu 

Education                                         

2023    M.F.A. candidate, New York University, New York, US.

2018    B.F.A., School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, US.

Selected Exhibition and Event History

2023  

Nature, Czong Insitute for Contemporary Art (CICA), Gimpo, Korea, Feburary (forthcoming).

2022   

The Feeling Begins, WES 80 Gallery, New York, November.

Anomaly Tales (performance event), Anonymous Gallery, New York, October.

Washed Ashore, Fort Tilden Beach, New York, August.

Gem Box, Latitude Gallery, New York, July.

The Patriot, O’Flaherty’s, New York, July.

It Fed Me Until It Didn’t, WES 80 Gallery, New York, April.

2021  

Exh 7, Floorr Magazine’s Virtual Gallery, September.

2020  

Private Garden, LivingWines, Shanghai, China, December.


Nanjing Art Book Fair, Art 404 booth, Nanjing, China, October.


Chengdu Art Book Fair, Art 404 booth, Chengdu, China, September.


Preface, Morandi Blue Culture and Space, Yixin, China, August.


Asian Students and Young Artists Art Festival, Gallery Lvs and Craft, Seoul, Korea,July.


2019  

Gu Ling Road 2019 incident, Gu Ling Road Gallery, Nanjing, China, December.

Rhetoric of Concepts, Nanjing University of the Arts, Jiu Jiang Space, Nanjing, China, November.


Slow Fixtures, (Two persons) Extra Projects, Chicago, February.

2018   

Open Eyes, Deep Woods, The Yards Gallery, Chicago, November.

An Abandoned Shoe, A Rotten Tooth, Z-1 Gallery, Chicago, September.

Summer Series Session 1: Sprouted Radish Supper Club, Produce Model Gallery, Chicago, June. 

Soft Spot, SITE Sharp Gallery, Chicago, May.

What Was Painting, Club Nutz, Chicago, May.

Light Sleeper, Zhou B Art Center, Chicago, May.

Excavated Image, SITE Sharp Gallery, Chicago, April.

FASL, Keyi Art Museum, Nanjing, China, April.

Loop’s Roving Doom, Loosing Pleasure, (Two persons), Gallery no one, Chicago, February.

2017  

Memory Foam, Salvage One, Chicago, November.

2016   

/ˈtɛknɪkəl/, Siragusa Gallery, 162 N State St, Chicago, November-December.

ArtBash, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, April.

2014   

So where's home?, George Fraser Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand, August.

Residency

2022   Program Deep Ecology in the Cognitive Capitalocene, Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art      in collaboration with The Brooklyn Rail, New York, June.

2021   Dark Study (advised by Serubiri Moses, Caitlin Cherry and Nicole Maloof), virtual.

2018    Launch Invitational Residency, Chicago Artist Coalition, Chicago, June.

Selected Interview and publication

2021  

“The New Alternatives”, written by Jessica Lynn, Art in America, May/June New Talent Issue,USA.

2020  

Art 404 (Catalogue), Art 404, Shanghai, China.

Vassar Review: Protest, Prophecy, Play, Vassar college, USA.

2018    

Bad At Sports, Top V. Weekend Picks (5/3-5/9), Chicago.

Artist Interview, Gallery no one, Chicago.

2016   

Untitled, Issue # 6, Published Fall 2016, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago.

Catalogued Zine “The Story of James” at Auckland Central Library, Auckland, New Zealand.

Selected Achievements

2022 – 2023 Graduate Student Scholarship, New York University.

2016 – 2018 Presidential Merit Scholarships, School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Advanced Placement in Painting, School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

2015   Denise Gerard Scholarships, Auckland University.

2014   Rosemary Grice Memorial Prize, Auckland University.