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Solo Exhibitions           

2006 - 07
Other Histories: Guan Wei's Fable for a Contemporary World, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney

2006
Echo, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
Unfamiliar Land, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide
Jiang Hu, Liverpool Regional Art Museum, Sydney

2005
Guan Wei: Secret Histories, ARC One Gallery, Melbourne

2004
Looking for Enemies, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
Prediction-Reflection, Church Gallery, Perth International Arts Festival, Perth

2003
Looking, Greene Street Studio, New York
A Passage to Australia, Canberra School of Art, Australian National University, Canberra
2002 Dao, Esplanade Theatres on the Bay, Singapore
Island, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney
Exotic Flowers & Rare Grasses, Sherman Galleries Hargrave, Sydney

2001
Studio Show, Parks Victoria, Warrandyte, Melbourne

2000
Horoscope, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing
Arrivals, Sydney 2000 Olympic Arts Festival, Sherman Galleries Hargrave, Sydney
Guan Wei (Zen Garden), Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney
Looking for Home, Earl Lu Gallery, LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore

1999
Floating, Sherman Galleries Hargrave, Sydney
Nesting, or the Art of Idleness

1989 - 1999
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Recent Work, Span Galleries, Melbourne

1998
Revisionary, Australian National University Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra
Internal Circulation, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing
Beijing to Sydney, Chifley Plaza, Sydney

1997
The Last Supper, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo
Guan Wei (ex/inspire), Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney
Anonymous Invader, Sydney Grammar School, Sydney

1996
Return to Paradise, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing
Umbrella Studio, Townsville, Queensland
Magic Garden, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong

1995
Treasure Hunt, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney

1994
The Great War of the Eggplant and Sausage, Australian National University Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra

1993
Test Tube Baby, Sherman Galleries Hargrave, Sydney

1992
The Living Specimen, Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart
Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart

1991
Waverly City Gallery, Melbourne
Despard Street Gallery, Hobart
Guan Wei: A Contemporary Chinese Artist, Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart
Guan Wei: Artist from The People's Republic of China, Photo Space School of Fine Art in the ANU, Canberra

1989
French Embassy, Beijing

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Group Exhibitions (selected from 2000)

2007
News from Islands, curator Aaron Seeto, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney
The Hague Sculpture 2007: DE OVERKANT / DOWN UNDER, Den Haag, The Netherlands

2006 - 07
Yours, Mine & Ours: 50 Years of ABC TV, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney

2006
2006: The Year in Art, S.H. Ervin Gallery, National Trust Centre, Sydney
Between River and Lake, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York
15th Anniversary Exhibition, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing
Water Dreaming, University Art Gallery, University of Sydney
Fleurieu Peninsula Biennale, McLaren Vale, Fleurieu Peninsula, SA

2005
Text Me: An Exploration of Body Language, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
The Nature Machine: Contemporary Art, Nature and Technology, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
The 10th Anniversary of Post-Earthquake Restoration Hyogo International Competition of Painting, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan
The Wynne Prize Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Sir John Sulman Prize Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
In-Between Realities, Shanghai Gallery of Art, Three on the Bund, Shanghai
Future Tense: Security and Human Rights, Dell Gallery, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Queensland
Western Front: Contemporary Art from Western Sydney, touring in New South Wales to Blacktown Arts Centre, Blacktown; Braemar Gallery, Springwood; Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest, Penrith

2004
2004: The Year in Art, S.H. Ervin Gallery, National Trust Centre, Sydney
Process, Gallery 4A, Asia-Australia Arts Centre, Sydney
Terra Alterius: Land of Another, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney, travelling exhibition
ARTV 2004, SBS Television and Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), Melbourne
Cycle Tracks Will Abound in Utopia, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), Melbourne
The Plot Thickens: Narratives in Australian Art, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne
Frank Saxby Acquisitions, Manning Regional Art Gallery, Taree, New South Wales

2003 - 04
Face Up: Contemporary Art from Australia�, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, Berlin
Isle of Refuge, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney; Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne

2003
Festivus, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
Art & About, City of Sydney, CBD banner exhibition
Witnessing to Silence: Art and Human Rights, ANU Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra
Synergies: A Fusion Event, ANU Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra
Hothouse: The Flower in Contemporary Art, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne, touring exhibition
Science Fictions, Earl Lu Gallery, LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore
The Dish Ran Away with the Spoon: Exploring Still Life, Academy Gallery, School of Visual and Performing Arts, University of Tasmania, Hobart
Ned Kelly Framed, S.H. Ervin Gallery, National Trust Centre, Sydney
Creating Paradise on Earth, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney
Austral-Asia Zero Three, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney

2002
Festivus, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney
2002: The Year in Art, S.H. Ervin Gallery, National Trust Centre, Sydney
Dialogue with the Watchtower, Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane
Points of View, University of Technology Gallery, Sydney
Dressing and Dreaming, Sherman Galleries Hargrave, Sydney
Deeper Places, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney
Borderpanic, Performance Space, Sydney
Sir John Sulman Prize Exhibition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Group Exhibition, Sherman Galleries Goodhope, Sydney
Sydney 2002, Hill on Hargrave Gallery, Sydney

2001
Osaka Triennial 2001: 10th International Contemporary Art Competition, Contemporary Art Space Osaka (CASO), Osaka, Japan
Asia in Australia: Beyond Orientalism, Queensland University of Technology Art Museum, Brisbane
39th Festival of Fisher's Ghost Award, Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery, Sydney
Mosman Art Prize, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney
International Print Triennial, Kanagawa, Japan
Clues to the Future, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing
Hermanns Art Award, Sherman Galleries Hargrave, New South Wales and Victoria, touring exhibition
7th NICAF: International Contemporary Art Festival 2001 Tokyo, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
Low-down: Recent Acquisitions, Monash University Collection, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne

2000 - 01
Lines of Descent: The Family in Contemporary Asian Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, touring exhibition

2000
Man and Space, Kwangju Biennale, Kwangju, South Korea
Inside Out: New Chinese Art, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
New Acquisitions, University of Western Sydney Collection, Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest, Penrith
Redlands Westpac Art Prize, Mosman Art Galley, Sydney
A Long Life, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane

1999 - 00
The Rose Crossing, Brisbane City Gallery, Brisbane; Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong; Singapore Art Museum, Singapore; Holmes a Court Gallery, Perth; S.H. Ervin Gallery, National Trust Centre, Sydney; Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery, Sydney

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Awards and Residencies

2006 - Artists Camp, Gunbalanya (Oenpelli), Western Arnhem Land, through 24HR Art, Darwin (Australia Council Grant)
2005 - Australia/China Council, residence grant, Taipei Artist Village, Taiwan
2003 - Artist in residence, Greene Street Studio, New York (Australia Council Grant)
2003 - Visiting Fellowship, Canberra School of Art, Australian National University, Canberra
2002 - Sir John Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2002 - Mosman Art Prize, Sydney
2002 - 39th Festival of Fisher's Ghost Award, Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery, Sydney
2002 - Artist in residence, Bundanon Trust, Nowra, New South Wales
2002 - Artist in residence, Parks Victoria, Melbourne
2002 - Artist in residence, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, New South Wales
2000 - Asia Link Australia Grant
2000 - Artist in residence, LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore
1999 - Nillumbik Invitation Art Award, Eltham, Victoria
1999 - Geelong Print Prize, Geelong Gallery, Victoria
1999 - Rena Ellen Jones Memorial Print Award, Warrnambool Art Gallery, Victoria
1999 - Artist in residence, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Queensland
1998 - Visiting Fellowship, Canberra School of Art, Australian National University, Canberra
1998 - Australia Council Grant
1998 - Conrad Jupiters Art Prize, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland
1997 - Artist in residence, Sydney Grammar School, Sydney
1997 - Australian Printmedia Art Prize, University of Western Sydney, Nepean
1997 - Biennial Art Exhibition Diary Award, Sutherland Entertainment Centre, Sydney
1996 - Curatorial team member, Second Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
1995 - Australia Council Grant
1994 - Conrad Jupiters Art Prize, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland
1993 - Artist in residence, Canberra School of Art, Australian National University, Canberra
1992 - Artist in residence, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
1990-91 - Artist in residence, Tasmanian School of Art, University of Tasmania, Hobart
1990 - Australia Council Grant
1989 - Artist in residence, Tasmanian School of Art, University of Tasmania, Hobart

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Commissions

2004 - Feng Shui, mural painting for Bureau of Meteorology, main entrance foyer, 700 Collins Street, Docklands, Melbourne
2004 - Paper War, for ARTV 2004, SBS television and Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), Melbourne
2001 - Sydney Morning Herald, cover artwork commissioned to celebrate Australia Day
1997 - One of eight artists commissioned to produce fine art, limited edition prints for the Sydney 2000 Olympics poster program

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Collections (selected)

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Australian Embassy, Beijing
Contemporary Art and Culture Centre, Osaka, Japan
Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong
Tokyo Gallery, Japan
Artbank
Campbelltown City Bicentennial Art Gallery, Sydney
Geelong Gallery, Victoria
Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland
Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney
Nillumbik Art Collection, Victoria
Parliament House Art Collection, Canberra
Australian National University, Canberra
Griffith University, Queensland
Monash University, Melbourne
University of New South Wales, Sydney
University of Tasmania, Hobart
University of Technology, Sydney
University of Western Sydney, Nepean
Parks Victoria Melbourne, Victoria
Sydney Grammar School
BHP Billiton
Wesfarmers
Numerous private and corporate collections in Australia and overseas