Gu Xiong was born 1953 in Chongqing, Sichuan, China.At the age of 18, during the Chinese cultural revolution, Xiong was sent to live in the countryside where he sketched scenes of rural life. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Master of Fine Arts degree (1985) from the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute. In 1986, he attended an artist residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Alberta Canada, becoming the first artist from the People's Republic of China to do so. After returning to China, he was a part of the 1989 China Avant-Garde exhibition that was shut down by the Chinese police a few hours after it opened, four months before Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Xiong immigrated from China to Vancouver Canada in 1989. Xiong currently lives in Vancouver, where he is a professor of art at the University of British Columbia. Labeled artist proof at the bottom and pencil signed bottom right.

Medium: Lithograph

Dimensions: L:21in W:15in

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