关伟

1957年生于中国北京。
1986年毕业于首都师范大学美术系。1989年至1993年先后被澳大利亚塔斯马尼亚大学艺术学院，堪培拉国立大学艺术学院和悉尼现代艺术中心邀请为客座艺术家。在这之后关伟多次获得澳大利亚政府艺术奖金，其中包括2003年纽约工作室和2007年巴黎工作室。

关伟的作品具有学识渊博，不可置疑的讥讽和道意的尺度。在他复杂的象征性的绘画符号中，他的主题有影响力的体现了当今社会，环境的两重性。他的作品是他丰富的文化储备，对社会、政治的高度关注，以及他对艺术史的广博知识的产物。

关伟曾在世界各地举办过40届个人展览，其中包括2006-2007年他在悉尼动力博物馆的主题展”另一种历史—关伟的现代预言”；2006年在阿德雷得南澳大利亚现代艺术中心举办的 “遥远的土地”， 和在悉尼雪门画廊举办的”回声”；2005年在墨尔本的ARC 一号画廊举办的”秘史”；已及2000年在新加坡艺术学院美术馆的”寻找归途”；1999年在悉尼现代艺术馆的澳洲十年回顾展”窝的艺术”；1998年在北京红门画廊的”内循环”; 1997年在日本东京画廊的”最后的晚餐”；1996年在香港汗雅轩画廊的”魔幻花园”；等等。

同时关伟还应邀参加了许多重要的当代国际艺术展：包括2008年的阿德雷得双年展；2007年在何兰举办的澳大利亚当代艺术展；2006年在美国纽约举办的中国当代艺术展”江湖”； 2005年在上海的”现实的维度”中国当代艺术展；2004年在澳大利亚墨尔本当代美术馆举办的国际当代艺术展”理想境界的轨迹”；2003-2004 在德国柏林汉堡美术馆举办的澳大利亚当代艺术展; 2000年韩国光洲双年展；1999年澳大利亚昆士兰美术馆亚太地区三年展；等等。

2003-2004年间关伟为澳大利亚气象总局大楼创造了澳大利亚最大的公共壁画”风水”，使他的艺术获得了更广泛的观众。2006年艺术家出版社编辑出版了关伟的画册。关伟曾多次赢得在澳大利亚和国际上的现代艺术比赛的大奖，其中包括新南维尔士州立美术馆举办的索门全国创作大奖，等等。同时许多作品被博物馆，美术馆，大学，基金会和个人收藏。

GUAN WEI
Born 1957, Beijing, China

In 1989, three years after graduating from the Department of Fine Arts at Beijing Capital University, Guan Wei came to Australia to take up an artist-in-residence at the Tasmanian School of Art. He was invited to undertake two further residencies: one at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney (1992), the other at the Canberra School of Art, Australian National University (1993). Since then he obtained many grants, including
Australia Council’s grant for Greene St New York studio in 2003 &.Cite International des Art Paris in 2007.

Guan Wei’s work has a profoundly felt, if implicitly ironic, moral dimension. In their complex symbolic form, his subjects potently embody current social and environmental dilemmas. They are equally the product of his rich cultural repertory of symbols and his informed socio-political awareness and art-historical knowledge.

Guan Wei has held 40 solo exhibitions, including, most recently, ‘Other Histories:
Guan Wei’s Fable for a Contemporary World’ at Powerhouse Museum, Sydney 2006-2007; ‘A Distant Land’ at Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia, Adelaide in 2006; ‘Echo’, at Sherman Galleries, Sydney in 2006; ‘Secret Histories’ at ARC One Gallery, Melbourne in 2005; Also, ‘Looking for Home’, Earllu Gallery, Singapore in 2000. ‘Nesting, or the Art of Idleness 1989–1999’, solo survey exhibitions at Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (1999). ‘Internal Circulation’, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing China in 1998. ‘The Last Supper’, at Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo Japan in 1997 and ‘Magic Garden’ at Hanart T Z Gallery, Hong Kong in 1996, etc.

He has been included in numerous important contemporary exhibitions in Australia and internationally, such as ‘Handle with Care’ Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, at Art Gallery of South Australia in 2008; ‘Down Under’ DenHaag Sculptuur 07 at Hague Sculpture Netherlands in 2007; ‘Between River and Lake’, Jack Tilton Gallery New York (2006); ‘In-Between Realities …’; Three on the Bund, Shanghai (2005); ‘Cycle Tracks Will Abound in Utopia’, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2004); ‘Face Up:Contemporary Art from Australia’, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, Berlin (2003–04); ‘Man and Space’, Kwangju Biennale (2000); the Third Asia-Pacific Triennial, Brisbane (1999).

In 2003–04, Guan Wei completed Feng Shui, an impressive 120-panel mural for the Melbourne Bureau of Meteorology, bringing his art to a broad audience.

Craftsman House has published Guan Wei’s monograph in 2006. Guan Wei has won several awards,including the 2002 Sir John Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. His work is held in major public collections and numerous university and corporate collections in Australia, as well as international collections.