1993年生于中国北京，现居芝加哥。
受美国视觉文化意识形态生产和中国保守家庭教育的影响，徐的实践从审视摄影中的权力生产延伸到个人自由及其与政治政权的关系问题。他从一个中国同性恋者的角度来谈判这个问题。在他的作品中，徐在摄影、新媒体和装置等媒介之间游走。这些运动与他流离失所、支离破碎的身份相似。
Born in Beijing, China in 1993, now lives 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 like photography, new media, and installation. These movements operate similarly to his displaced and fractured identity.
教育 Education：
2017-2019 Master of Fine Arts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2014-2016 Bachelor of Fine Arts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2011-2013 Beijing Film Academy
个展 Solo Exhibitions：
2023 Duration of Stay, Galerie du Monde, Hong Kong, China
2023 Temporariness as Formation, Weitman Gallery, Washington University, St. Louis, US
2023 Resident Aliens, IS A GALLERY, Shanghai, China
2022 to be seen, Chinese American Museum of Chicago, Chicago, US
2022 Suspended Status, Light Work, Syracuse University, Syracuse, US
2022 Temporarily Censored Home, Fotografia Europea, Chiostri di San Pietro, Reggio Emilia, Italy
2021 Suspended Status, Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival, Xiamen, China
2021 Suspended Status, villa Noailles, Hyères, France
2020 Temporarily Censored Home, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York City, US
2020 Temporarily Censored Home, Mansfield Freeman Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, US
2019 Parallel Rooms, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, Philadelphia, US
2019 Parallel Journeys, SITE Galleries, Chicago, US
群展 Group Exhibitions：
2024 Nurturing Nodes in the Nook of an Odd Sock, Art Gallery Miyauchi, Hiroshima, Japan
2024 I’m not alien, I’m discontent, Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-On-Hudson, US
2024 Future Minded: New Works in the Collection, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, US
2024 Multiply! Power in Numbers in Contemporary Chinese Art, Modern Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2024 Dream Time, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2024 ICP at 50, International Center of Photography, New York, US
2023 The 10th China Photography Annual Ranking Exhibition, Lishui Photography Museum, Lishui, China
2023 Developing Story, Cassilhaus, Chapel Hill, US
2023 Sea Change: Photographs from the Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, US
2023 HHÖØMMÈĘ, CHAxARTxRTM, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2023 Shouldn't You Be Working? 100 Years of Working from Home, MSU Broad Art Museum, East Lansing, US
2023 Turning Point, Turning World, RAW Phototriennale, Haus im Schluh, Worpswede, Germany
2023 No Place Like Home, Schingoethe Center, Aurora University, Aurora, US
2022 Through the Looking Glass, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York City, US
2022 Beyond the Frame, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, US
2022 Floating Museum: A Lion for Every House, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, US
2022 The Intimate Revolt, Goethe Institut, Beijing, China
2022 Retrograde, Galerie du Monde, Hong Kong
2022 A Trillion Sunsets: A Century of Image Overload, International Center of Photography, New York, US
2021 The World Beyond the World, Rongyi Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2021 Between, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, US
2021 Foam Talent Traveling Exhibition, Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2020 Inaugural Installations: Kinder Building, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, US
2020 New Photography: Create, Collect, Compile, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, US
2020 The Long Dream, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, US
2020 Foam Talent Traveling Exhibition, KühlhausBerlin, Berlin, Germany
2020 SITUATIONS/The Right to Look, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
2020 Misfit: Collage and Queer Practice, National Art School, Sydney, Australia
2019 Monitoring, 36th Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, Kassel, Germany
2019 Athens Photo Festival, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
2018 Fotofilmic Traveling Exhibition, Burrard Arts Foundation, Vancouver BC, Canada
2017 Gendered, Mint Museum, Charlotte, US
2016 Photography Is Magic, Aperture Foundation, New York City, US
获奖 Awards / 奖学金 Fellowships / 驻留 Residencies：
2023 Pioneer Works Residency
2023 China Photography Annual Ranking
2022 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant
2022 Chicago DCASE Artist Grant
2022 Creative Capital Shortlist
2022 LATITUDE Residency
2021 CENTER Project Development Grant
2021 Light Work Residency
2020 Hyéres International Festival Grand Prix du Photographie
2020 PHOTOFAIRS Shanghai Exposure Award
2019 Kodak Film Photo Award
2019 Philadelphia Photo Arts Center Contemporary Annual Competition Winner
2019 Lensculture Emerging Talents Award
2019 ACRE Residency and Full Scholarship
2019 Samuel and Blanche Koffler Travel Scholarship
2018 James Weinstein Memorial Fellowship
2015 Fred Endsley Memorial Fellowship
出版物 Publications：
2024 Hannah Zhang, Queer Chinese Diasporic Photographer Subverting Definition, The Amp, Jan 22, Online
2023 Jenny Wu, “Circulation as Critique: Guanyu Xu’s Itinerant Images,” Bridge Chicago, Oct 02, Online,
2023 Hindley Wang, “Interfacing the Artists: A conversation with Xuanlin Ye and Guanyu Xu,” Sixty Inches From Center, Aug 29, Online
2023 “Unpacking spatial politics: a conversation with Guanyu Xu,” eazel, Aug 25, Online
2023 Hindley Wang, Critic’s’ Pick, Artforum China, Aug 19, Online
2023 Conversation with Curatorial Fellow Jackson Davidow, Harvard Art Museums, Jun 25, Online
2023 Xuan Juliana Wang, “Resident Aliens,” Aperture 251, June, Printed
2023 Lisa Movius, “A 'purposely regional' Taipei Dangdai fair suggests Taiwan's art market is slowly recovering from the pandemic,” The Art Newspaper, May 12, Online
2023 Vitamin C+: Collage in Contemporary Art, Phaidon, Printed
2023 Elaine Velie, “Quieter Artworks Stand Out At a New York Photo Fair,” Hyperallergic, Mar 31, Online
2023 Site Specific: Photography Exhibitions from around the World, Tall Poppy Press, Printed
2023 Chiara Bardelli-Nonino, “Il mondo di PhotoVogue in una foto: l’omaggio del fotografo Guanyu Xu alla nostra community,” Vogue Italia, Feb 14, Online
2023 Chiara Bardelli-Nonino, “Utopie D’Oggi,” Vogue Italia, Feb Issue, Printed
2023 Kyle Parry, A Theory of Assembly, University of Minnesota Press, Printed
2022 Carl Mellor, ”Guanyu Xu solo exhibit at Light Work explores ‘Suspended Status’ of visa holders,” Central Current, Nov 30, Online
2022 Lucia De Stefani, “Guanyu Xu Explores Identity and Representation,” PhMuseum, Nov 10, Online
2022 Light Work, Suspended Status, Printed
2022 Light Work, Light Work Annual 2022, Printed
2022 Lori Waxman, “If They Won’t Come to the Museum, Then the Museum Must Go to Them,” Hyperallergic, Aug 7, Online
2022 Marcus Civin, “Becoming at-home in the USA,” Damn Magazine, Summer, Printed
2022 Art Review Asia, Artist Project, Summer, Printed
2022 Zinnia Naqvi, Lost in Parallel Worlds: in conversation with Guanyu Xu, Public Parking, Jul 12, Online
2022 Ashleigh Kane, “How Guanyu Xu found his sexual identity through photography,” Dazed, Jun 28, Online
2022 Taylor Dafoe, “5 Highlights at the 2022 AIPAD Photography Show,” Artnet, May 20, Online
2021 Art Basel Magazine, Interview, Dec, Printed
2021 Henry Carroll, HUMANS: Photographs That Make You Think, Abrams Image, Printed
2021 Take Care and MSGM, ONESELF, Apr 21, Printed
2020 CityZine 城市画报, Feature and Interview, Nov, Printed
2020 The Art Newspaper China, Interview, Oct, Online & Printed
2020 Dazed China, Feature and Interview, Oct, Online & Printed
2020 Wordt Vervolgd - Amnesty International, September, Printed
2020 Charlotte Cotton, The Photograph as Contemporary Art, 4th Edition, Thames & Hudson, Printed
2020 Alina Cohen, “17 Contemporary Artists Reimagining the Still Life,” Artsy, Aug 7, Online
2020 The New York Times Style Magazine, “Works for the Now, by Queer Artists of Color,” June 29, Online & Printed
2020 Harper's Magazine, April, Online & Printed
2020 Martha Schwendener, “New York Art Galleries: The Virtual Experience,” New York Times, March 26, Online & Printed
2020 Tanner Tafelski, “Queering Spaces: Guanyu Xu’s “TEMPORARILY CENSORED HOME”, ArtAsiaPacific, March, Online
2020 Musée Magazine, “Temporarily Censored Home - Interview with Guanyu Xu,” March 13, Online
2020 Hannah Abel-Hirsch, “Guanyu Xu reclaims his childhood home,” British Journal of Photography, March 4, Online
2020 Harley Wong, “9 Must-See Shows in New York This March,” Artsy, March 3, Online
2019 Eren Orbey, “A Chinese Photographer’s Secret Installations Inside His Parents’ Home”, The New Yorker, August 3, Online
2016 Musee Magazine, Chaos, Printed
收藏 Collections：
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, US
Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, US
FENIX Museum of Migration, Rotterdam, Netherlands
The Fidelity Art Collection, Boston, US
Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, US
International Center of Photography, New York, US
Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, Chicago, US
JPMorgan Chase Art Collection, New York, US
Light Work, Syracuse University, Syracuse, US
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, US
Michigan State University Broad Art Museum, East Lansing, US
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, US
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, US
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, US
The Ryerson and Burnham Libraries, Chicago, US
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, US
Sunpride Foundation, Hong Kong
Vontobel Collection, Zurich, Switzerland
