VI, VII

Doris Guo

b. San Francisco, 1992
Lives and works in Oslo

News

Doris Guo in 'Doris Guo, Matthew Langan-Peck, Isabelle Frances McGuire, Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya'Artists Space, New York

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Doris Guo in 'Curated By' at Lombardi—Kargl gallery, Viennacurated by Kate Sutton

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Doris Guo 'Back' at Empty Gallery, Hong Kong

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Biography

The general approach of Doris Guo’s work comes out of a desire to capture ambient dispositions toward the social patterns and ritual dimensions of living. Rather than providing an explicit narrative that her sculptures become remnants of, she suggests oblique narratives and feelings by repurposing and recreating disparate objects and materials worn by human usage.

Working with a variety of materials and media her works are often produced from a journalistic approach to the feelings and affects of lived experience. The ambiences of the day-to-day remain a starting point of her practice as she works with readymades and the visual languages of interior spaces.

Born in San Francisco in 1992, Guo has lived in both Seattle and New York. The artist holds an MFA from Oslo National Academy of the Arts and currently lives and works in Oslo.

Solo exhibitions include Back, Empty Gallery, Hong Kong; disorientations, VI, VII, Oslo; Shanghai San Francisco Richmond Seattle New York Oslo (TRACE), Veronica, Seattle; Doris Guo, inge, New York; 9PM Til I at Éclair, Berlin; XO, Bodega, New York; Coffee & Tea, Princess, New York and Joss, Real Fine Arts, New York.

Group exhibitions include X Years, VI, VII, Oslo; When the Word Becomes Flesh, Baader-Meinhof, Omaha; Flow, Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York; Misunderstandings (A Theory of Photography), Plymouth Rock, Zurich; 01102020, Fisher Parrish Gallery, Brooklyn; Cruise Kidman Kubrick, Galerie Maria Bernheim, Zurich; Pastoral (Grind and Drone), 47 Canal, New York; The Parisian Nights, Crèvecoeur, Paris and Mad child of a wise mother, curated by Clément Delépine, CACBM, Paris, where her work was exhibited alongside that of Tom Friedman, Jutta Koether, Louise Lawler and Patricio Lima Quintana.

Guo’s work is currently on view in a group exhibition at Artists Space, New York.

In September, her work will appear in a group exhibition curated by Kate Sutton at Lombardi — Kargl, Vienna as part of the city-wide festival ‘Curated By.’ A solo exhibition of her work will open at the Kunstverein Braunschweig in 2025.

The artist’s work will also be included in two group exhibitions this year: one at Theta Gallery, New York and one at Gandt, Queens, New York curated by Olivia Shao opening in November 2024.

Curriculum Vitae

Education

2021-2023

  • Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Oslo, Norway, M.F.A. Fine Art

2010-2014

  • Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, B.F.A. Painting
  • Fall 2012 Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Fine Arts Department, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2025

  • Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany (Forthcoming)

2023

  • Back, Empty Gallery, Hong Kong
  • disorientations, VI, VII, Oslo

2022

  • Shanghai San Francisco Richmond Seattle New York Oslo (TRACE), Veronica, Seattle, WA
  • Inge, Plainview, NY

2019

  • 9PM Til I, Éclair, Berlin
  • XO, Derosia, New York

2018

  • Coffee & Tea, Princess, New York, NY

2017

  • Joss, Real Fine Arts, Brooklyn, NY
  • G.I.S.S., Red Hook, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024

  • Doris Guo, Matthew Langan-Peck, Isabelle Frances McGuire, Ruben Ulises Rodriguez Montoya, Artists Space, New York
  • Material Art Fair, presented by Borgenheim Rosenhoff, Mexico City
  • Group exhibition, curated by Kate Sutton, Lombardi — Kargl, Vienna
  • Group exhibition, Theta Gallery, New York (forthcoming)
  • Group exhibition, curated by Olivia Shao, Gandt, Queens, New York (forthcoming / November 2024)

2023

  • Jahresgaben, The Wig, Berlin
  • Free Education for All, It’s not too late, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
  • Map of Dusk, Afternoon Projects, Shanghai

2022

  • X Years, VI, VII, Oslo
  • When the Word Becomes Flesh, Baader-Meinhof, Omaha, Nebraska
  • Post.box Group, Copenhagen

2021

  • Welding In Space, LEMME, Sion, Switzerland
  • Remnant, Artifact, Flow, Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York

2020

  • Misunderstandings (A Theory of Photography), Plymouth Rock, Zurich, Switzerland

01102020,

  • curated by Y2K Group, Fisher Parrish Gallery, Brooklyn

2019

  • Cruise Kidman Kubrick, Galerie Maria Bernheim, Zurich
  • Eggs, u’s, Calgary, Canada
  • Tri Volta, New York
  • Pastoral (Grind and Drone), 47 Canal, New York
  • The Parisian Nights, Crèvecoeur, Paris

2018

  • note: standing prop, Manila Institute, New York
  • Mad child of a wise mother, curated by Clément Delépine, CACBM, Paris
  • Trace message from under quarry stone, LUMP Projects, Raleigh, North Carolina
  • Site of Unforgetting, Practice, Yonkers, New York
  • EVAC, London, Canada
  • Soul is a four-letter word, Museum Gallery, Brooklyn
  • Vol. I, C.R. MCBerny, Berlin

2017

  • The Royal Edge, The Windjammer, Queens, New York
  • And Now, Dallas, Texas
  • What Would The Community Think, Hotel Art Pavilion, Brooklyn, New York
  • i like americans because they’re all liars, Liebhartgasse 48/19, Vienna
  • The Fates, Interstate Projects, Brooklyn, New York
  • Protean Vessels, Ellis King, Dublin

2016

  • Conscience Point, Theta, New York
  • Folly, or Vestiges in Greene, Kilroy Metal Ceiling, Brooklyn, New York
  • Little Fishes, Dotory, Brooklyn, New York

2015

  • Bare Skin, The Outer Room, Brookyn, New York
  • B(L)RR, Three Four Three Four Gallery, New York
  • Selected Press
  • Burke, Harry, Doris Guo “Back” at Empty Gallery, Hong Kong, Mousse Magazine, January 26, 2024
  • Chu, Jaime, Doris Guo at Empty Gallery, Spike Art Magazine, January 16, 2024
  • Durnak, Victoria, Søk i det umirakuløse, Kunstkritikk.no, September 27, 2023
  • Durnak, Victoria, Doris Guo: traces of people, places and politics, Conceptual Fine Arts, June 15, 2023
  • Fateman, Johanna, Going’s On About Town, The New Yorker, February 11, 2019
  • Nam, Hiji, Artforum, Critic’s Pick, February 12, 2019
  • Contemporary Art Writing Daily, Doris Guo at Bodega, February 22, 2019

Press

Doris Guo “Back” at Empty Gallery, Hong Kong, Harry Burke, Mousse Magazine

Doris Guo: traces of people, places, and politics, Victoria Durnak, Conceptual Fine Arts

Doris Guo at Derosia, Hiji Nam, Artforum Critics Pick