Guanyu Xu participates in the Swatch Art Peace Hotel Artist Residency from March to June 2025.
Guanyu Xu (b. 1993, Beijing) is an artist currently based in Chicago. Influenced by the production of ideology in American visual culture and a conservative familial upbringing in China, Xu’s practice extends from examining the production of power in photography to the question of personal freedom and its relationship to political regimes. He negotiates this from the perspective as a Chinese gay man. In his work, Xu migrates between mediums including photography, new media, and installation. These movements operate similarly to his displaced and fractured identity.
His work is in public collections including the Asian Art Museum of San Franscisco, the Getty Museum, Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Harvard Art Museums, Madison Museum of
Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Museum of Contemporary Photography Chicago, and New Orleans Museum of Art, among others.
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https://www.swatch-art-peace-hotel.com/news/New-artist-arrival%3A-Guanyu-Xu-644
