Sihan Guo


The practice of Sihan Guo (Shanghai, China, 2000) meditates on the possible dissociation of human subjectivity led by today’s information technology. Her works evoke the idea of disintegration, absence, and self-erasure by experimenting with the materiality of painting. In her work, the orientation toward a human-less, subject-less, and collapsed vision of space denotes an object-oriented fantasy overriding any human perceptions.

Her inspiration often comes from deserted places, dilapidated monuments, and the imagination of the present man-made world as future remains — situations where human capability is alienated and relinquished.

Her work has been exhibited at the NARS Foundation (Brooklyn, NY), Commons Gallery (New York), the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute (China) or Cornell University (NY).



“belly buttons wirling down the sink, tides awaken to meet the flushed dream, goose bumps tains,seafoam greens, browns and taupes,lavender,dripping,melting”, 2024

Oil on wood panel
90x80cm

Photo by Bruno Lopes
“Earthly Vanity and Divine Salvation, tendril drifts, down the bulging cavity, branching, overflowing, saps, the underworld, Kanagawawaves”, 2024

Oil on wood panel
70x60cm
“headless Cerberus revolution, undulating bodies conspiring, collarbones and scorpion pincers, cinereous, mossy greens, hints of magenta, winding serpentine roots, 2024

Oil on wood panel
120x100cm

Photo by Bruno Lopes
“inter-cerebral silverspring, giantseedling, IVF, peachy heart submerged in dark blue, the excision of lovers”, 2024

Oilonwoodpanel
100x90cm

PhotobyBrunoLopes
“lacey nymphs, spring of mirroring falling and shadowing, melted velvet harp, amethyst sand
decorative mouldings, deep purples, golds, sky blues, taupe,” 2024

Oil and carving on wood panel
80x70cm
“lament for the sunken seas, clinging to the faulty tree, lingering at the oceanic basins, deepteal, midnight blue, faded lavender”, 2024

Oil and carving on wood panel
40x30cm
“phoenix rising and winding, spasm in an amber, dampened earth, naturere claims remnants of life,deep brown”, 2024

Oil and carving on wood panel
20x15cm
“root cause, twisting Memling’s Hell, a shock absorber for ankles, spider lilies, knotted, joints of bones, mossy, swirling”, 2024

Oil on wood panel
90x80cm
“spleens and heart wood, veins and xylems, slithering, bulging, toescape from the stem, rugged
and gritty, olive greens, dusty pinks”, 2024

Oil and carving on wood panel
120x110cm