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Biography

Tony Guo (1999) is a painter born in Aotearoa who grew up in Northeast China. He migrated to Tāmaki Makaurau in 2012 by himself, spending his teen years with host families while adapting to multiculturalism. Vested in modes of figurative oil paintings, Guo’s work projects queer allegory in a psycho-theatre, as moments of whimsy mask a journey into a captive dilemma.

He completed an MVA at AUT in 2022 and continues to expand his conceptual and technical realms through research and practice. 

Employment

2023 Part-time Tutor, Bachelor of Visual Arts (Painting), AUT

Education

2022 Master of Visual Arts, AUT

2020 Bachelor of Visual Arts, AUT

Awards

2023 Molly Morpeth Canaday Award, Merit Award

2022 Walker & Hall Waiheke Art Award, Michael Evens Award

2020 Emergent: See, Runner-Up Award

2017 National Youth Art Award, Breakthrough Award

Solo Show

2023 Dogtooth, Paper Anniversary Gallery, Auckland

Selected Group Shows

2023 

- Aotearoa Art FairPaper Anniversary Gallery, Auckland

- The Dinner Party, RM Gallery, Auckland

- Molly Morpeth Canaday Award Finalist Exhibition, Whakatāne Library and Exhibition Centre, Whakatāne

2022

- Walker & Hall Waiheke Art Award Finalist Exhibition, Waiheke Community Art Gallery, Auckland 

- New Zealand Painting and Printmaking Award Finalist Exhibition, Hamilton Gardens Pavilion, Hamilton

2021

- Beyond Borders, Beresford Square, Auckland​​

2020

- Layers: Filling the Void, Pah Homestead, Auckland.

​- Emergent: See, Lake House Arts Centre, Auckland

2019

- ​Accept Each Word Spoken with Love, Northart Gallery, Auckland

​- Molly Morpeth Canaday Award Finalist Exhibition, Whakatāne Library and Exhibition Centre, Whakatāne

2018

​- 3.15 Westlake Art Show, Lake House Arts Centre, Auckland

​- Greater Auckland Art Award Exhibition, Corban Estate Arts Centre, Auckland

2017

​- National Youth Art Award Finalist Exhibition, Waikato Society of Arts, Hamilton

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