AVITA GUO

Avita Guo was born in Golmud, Qinghai. Grew up in Qinghai, Shandong, Russia and London. She received her BA degree in Ilya Repin State Academia of Fine Arts, oil painting. In 2012 she was offered scholarship for MA Fine Art degree in University Arts of London, she graduated from Central Saint Martins college of arts and design in 2015. In 2017 she paused her Mphi/PhD of Material and Visual culture of anthropology in University College of London. She was one of the chef-editors in feminism magazine ‘HYSTERIA’ from 2014 to 2016, meanwhile she established the performance research group ‘White Torture’ with performance artist Bjork Grue Lidin and active often in east London underground art scene. Since 2017, she had experimental personal projects mainly in Beijing.
Her current works pay attention on the collapse in between personal inner land and realistic political society, the changes of the political filed and personal position in the modernity at large, the changes of the poetic moments in between inner mind and outer cracks. From 2019 she started to re-paint again and trying to explore the relationship between painting and her formal video installation experiments .
Her recent exhibition include: Book of the current, Mocube, Beijing; Diagonal, Magican Space, Beijing; An impulse to turn, Inside-out Art museum, Beijing; Narrative of the past, Xining Contemporary, Xining, etc.