Brief Introduction

Guo Cheng is an artist currently living and working in Shanghai. Working primarily through installation, he integrates custom software and hardware, mixed media, and spatial interventions to explore the materiality and ideological dimensions of technological systems. He examines how infrastructures—from data centers to geological strata—regulate human experience across different temporal scales. In recent years, he has approached the co-constitutive relationship between technological infrastructure and ecological systems from a planetary perspective. With a restrained yet subtly absurd tone, his works juxtapose vast spatiotemporal scales with ordinary technological artifacts, revealing the material and relational networks that sustain contemporary life yet often remain overlooked. His works have been presented at M+ Museum, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Fudan Art Museum, Wuhan Art Museum, ICA at NYU Shanghai, Macao Museum of Art, Chengdu Art Museum, BY ART MATTERS, UCCA Edge, and Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, among others. His commissioned works include Digital Terraforming, Becoming Ripples, The Larva of Time, The Weather Consensus, and The Net Wanderer. He has received honors including the Best Exhibition Award at Gallery Weekend Beijing, New Century Art Foundation Art Production and Exhibition Support Program, Porsche Young Chinese Artist of the Year Award, Ars Electronica Honorary Mention, STARTS Prize nomination, Digital Earth Fellowship, Special Jury Prize of Huayu Youth Award, and BADaward.

Research

Algorithmic Systems, Data Politics, and Media Environments

Ecotechnics, Material Culture, and Planetary Scales

Media Art and Research-based Practice

Teaching

Undergraduate: Fundamentals of Design (2)、Design Studio 1（Form Generation and Manufacturing）、Design Studio(5)、Major Project

Education Background

2010.09-2012.07  MA in Design Products, Royal College of Art, London

2006.09-2010.07  BE in Industrial Design, Tongji University, Shanghai

Work Experience

2026.06-present  Tongji University Adjunct faculty

2013.10-2026.05  College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University, Visiting Lecturer, Shanghai

2015.03-2017.02  Chronus Art Center, Executive Director, Shanghai

2013.10-2015.07  CASP Lab, Tongji University, Co-Founder, Shanghai

2013.10-2015.07  Sino-Finnish Centre, Tongji University, Research Facilitator, Shanghai

Design

[1] 2025  Digital Terraforming, M+ Museum, Hong Kong (Commissioned work)

[2] 2024  Becoming Ripples, M+ Museum, Hong Kong (Commissioned work)

[3] 2024  The Larva of Time, Berggruen Research Center, Beijing (Commissioned Exhibition)

[4] 2022  Trouble, OCAT Shanghai, Shanghai (Commissioned work)

[5] 2022  The Weather Consensus, Hyundai Motorstudio, Beijing (Commissioned work)

[6] 2022  Abstract Oracle Miner, UCCA Edge, Shanghai (Commissioned work)

[7] 2021/2019  The Net Wanderer (essay film / installation), Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden; produced as part of the Digital Earth Fellowship (Commissioned Project)

[8] 2019  Amber No.1, Taikang Space, Beijing (Commissioned work)

[9] 2017  A Felicitous Neo-past, BADaward, The Hague (Commissioned Project)

[10] 2015  Gibbon II, OCAT Shanghai, Shanghai (Commissioned work)

Publications

Exhibitions

[1] 2025  Bug, Magician Space, Beijing

[2] 2025  Digital Terraforming, M+ Museum, Online

[3] 2025  Stay Connected: Navigating the Cloud, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong

[4] 2024  Shanshui: Echoes and Signals, M+ Museum, Hong Kong

[5] 2024  Wuhan Biennale: Urban Fluidity, Wuhan Art Museum, Wuhan

[6] 2024  The Larva of Time, ICA at NYU Shanghai, Shanghai

[7] 2023  Macao International Art Biennale: The Statistics of Fortune, Macao Museum of Art, Macao

[8] 2023  Chengdu Biennale: Time Gravity, Chengdu Art Museum, Chengdu

[9] 2023  Motion is Action: 35 Years of Chinese Media Art, BY ART MATTERS, Hangzhou

[10] 2023  SIGG: Chinese Contemporary Art from the Sigg Collection, SONGEUN Art Space, Seoul

[11] 2021  Spinning East Asia Series I: A Compass in Hand, Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile, Hong Kong

[12] 2021  ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Machine Learning Human Dreams, DEUTSCHES HYGIENE-MUSEUM, Dresden

[13] 2020  The Eternal Network (exhibition of Transmediale 2020), Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin

[14] 2019  The Process of Art: TOOLS AT WORK, Power Station of Art, Shanghai

[15] 2019  Notes from Pallet Town, UCCA Dune, Qinhuangdao

Honors and Awards

[1] 2025  Bug, Best Exhibition Award, Gallery Weekend Beijing, Beijing

[2] 2022  New Century Art Foundation "Art Production and Exhibition Support Program", Beijing

[3] 2021  Porsche "Young Chinese Artist of the Year" Award, Shanghai

[4] 2020  The Net Wanderer, Ars Electronica Honorary Mention (Interactive Art+), Linz

[5] 2020  The Net Wanderer, STARTS Prize Nomination, Linz

[6] 2020  Wind Verification, CAC://DKU Research & Creation Fellowship, Shanghai

[7] 2018  The Net Wanderer, Digital Earth Fellowship

[8] 2018  Special Jury Prize, Huayu Youth Award, Sanya

[9] 2017  A Felicitous Neo-past, Winner, BADaward, The Hague

[10] 2014  Mouth Factory, Grand Prize, Free Art Fair, Taipei

Contact

Email: chengggguo@gmail.com

Web: www.guo-cheng.net