Doris Guo
(She/her)
Address: Snails, Christian Krohgs gate 2, 0186 Oslo
Floor: 5
Room number: N/A
The studio is open Sunday 27 April from 12-17
Doris Guo (b. 1992) is an MFA graduate from Oslo National Academy of the Arts, and holds a BFA from Pratt Institute, NY and is currently based in Oslo. Guo’s general approach comes out of a desire to capture ambient dispositions toward the social patterns and ritual dimensions of living. Rather than providing an explicit narrative that her sculptures become remnants of, she suggests oblique narratives and feelings by repurposing and recreating disparate objects and materials worn by human usage. Working with a variety of materials and media, the bodies of work she produces often come from a journalistic approach to the feelings and affects of lived experience.
The ambiences of the day-to-day remain a starting point of her practice as she works with readymades and the visual languages of interior spaces.
sculpture, photography, installation, mixed media, painting
Wood pulley, Doris Guo, Oak, hardware, plastic bag, ø 24 cm, 2024, Art Basel Paris 2024
Doris Guo, Bathroom Kitchen Confusion, 2023. Projector, ceramic, wood, paint, vinyl, plastic, variable dimensions. Photo: Christian Tunge.
Doris Guo, all sounds flash, 2023. Wood, paint, projector, glass, doll, variable dimensions. Photo: Christian Tunge.
Doris Guo, “Bronze Guestbook II”, 2019. Bronze. 8.5 x 5.5 x 1.5 in (21.6 x 14 x 3.8 cm). Courtesy of Derosia, New York and the artist.
In my studio
Visitors can expect to see works in progress along with a few finished works, the layout of our shared studio- as well as some snacks and drinks.
Planned projects and exhibitions
I have 2 solo exhibitions forthcoming in 2025, one at Kunstverein Braunschweig in March, and one at Clementin Seedorf, Cologne in June.
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DORIS GUO
b. 1992, San Francisco, CA . Currently based in Oslo, Norway
EDUCATION
2021 – 2023
Oslo National Academy of the Arts M.A. Fine Art, Oslo, Norway
2010 – 2014
Pratt Institute B.F.A. Painting, Brooklyn, NY
2012 Fall Term
Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Fine Arts Department, Amsterdam, Netherlands
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025
Clementin Seedorf, Cologne, DE, (forthcoming June)
Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, DE (forthcoming March)
2024
The Jar, K4 Galleri, Oslo, NO
2023
Back, Empty Gallery, Hong Kong, HK
disorientations, VI, VII, Oslo, NO
2022
Shanghai San Francisco Richmond Seattle New York Oslo (TRACE), Veronica, Seattle, WA Inge, Plainview, NY
2019
9PM Til I, Éclair, Berlin, DE XO, Derosia, New York, NY
2018
Coffee & Tea, Princess, New York, NY
2017
Joss, Real Fine Arts, Brooklyn, NY G.I.S.S., Red Hook, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Legal Size, organized by Olivia Shao, Gandt, Queens, NY
Jahresgaben, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, DE
What Are We In Now??, The Wig, Berlin, DE
You You, Curated by Kate Sutton, Lombardi — Kargl, Vienna, AT
Doris Guo, Matthew Langan-Peck, Isabelle Frances McGuire, and Ruben Ulises Rodriguez-Montoya, Artists Space, New York, NY
One Room After Another, FKDS Stipend Exhibition, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, NO
All Good Things, Hulias, Oslo, NO
Pinacotheta, Theta, New York, NY
2023
Jahresgaben, The Wig, Berlin, DE
Free Education for All, It’s not too late, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, NO Map of Dusk, Afternoon Projects, Shanghai, CN
2022
Ten Year Anniversary Show, VI, VII, Oslo, NO
When the Word Becomes Flesh, Baader-Meinhof, Omaha, NE Post.box Group, Copenhagen, DK
2021
Welding in Space, LEMME, Scion, CH
Remnant, Artifact, Flow, Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York, NY
2020
Misunderstandings (A Theory of Photography), Plymouth Rock, Zurich, CH 01102020, curated by Y2K group, Fisher Parrish Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2019
Cruise Kidman Kubrick, Galerie Maria Bernheim, Zurich, CH Eggs, u’s, Calgary, CAN
Tri Volta, New York, NY
Pastoral (Grind and Drone), 47 Canal, New York, NY
The Parisian Nights, Crèvecoeur, Paris, FR
2018
note: standing prop, Manila Institute, New York, NY
Mad child of a wise mother, CACBM, Paris, FR
Trace message from under quarry stone, LUMP Projects, Raleigh, NC Site of Unforgetting, Practice, Yonkers, NY
EVAC, London, CAN
Soul is a four-letter word, Museum Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Vol. I, C.R. MCBerny, Berlin, DE
2017
The Royal Edge, The Windjammer, Queens, NY
Organized by Cloud Burst Advisory & Eli Ping, And Now, Dallas, TX What Would The Community Think, Hotel Art Pavilion, Brooklyn, NY
i like americans because they’re all liars, Liebhartgasse 48/19, Vienna, AT The Fates, Interstate Projects, Brooklyn, NY
Protean Vessels, Ellis King, Dublin, IRL
2016
Conscience Point, Theta, New York, NY
Folly, or Vestiges in Greene, Kilroy Metal Ceiling, Brooklyn, NY Little Fishes, Dotory, Brooklyn, NY
SELECTED PRESS
Burke, Harry, Mousse, Doris Guo “Back” at Empty Gallery, January 26, 2024
Chu, Jaime, Spike, Doris Guo at Empty Gallery, January 16, 2024
Norton, Nicholas, Kunstkritikk, 12 December, Critic and writer Nicholas Norton proclaims his three favorite exhibi- tions of the year, December 12, 2023
Durnak, Victoria, Kunstkritikk, Søk i det umirakuløse, September 27, 2023
Durnak, Victoria, Conceptual Fine Arts, Doris Guo: traces of people, places, and politics, June 2023
Gabrielsen, Stian, Kunstkritikk, Tro ikke egne øyne, May 12, 2023
Holtvedt, Alma, Aftenposten, Politisk ramme, men navle-beskuende tematikk, May 10, 2023
Hegna Hammer, Sara, Klassekampen, Setter sine spor, May 10, 2023
Nam, Hiji, Artforum, Critic’s Pick, February 2019
Fateman, Johanna, The New Yorker, Going’s On About Town, February 2019
Contemporary Art Writing Daily, Doris Guo at Bodega, February 22, 2019
Artspace, 7 Emerging Artists to Watch in July, July 7, 2017
GRANTS
2024 – Project Support, OCA
2024 – Project Support, Kulturrådet
2024 – Ettårig Stipend (BKV)
2024 – Project Support, OCA
2023 – Development of Studio Grant, Fondet For Kunst og Designstudenter (FKDS) 2023 – Diversestipend for nyutdannede kunstnere, Kulturrådet
2023 – Project Support, Kulturrådet
2022 – Development of Practice Grant, Fondet For Kunst og Designstudenter (FKDS)