Shi Guowei was born in 1977, Luoyang, Henan. He received his Bachelor’s degree in photography from the Department of Visual Communication at the Tsinghua University Academny of Arts and Design (the former Central Academy of Art and Design) in 2002. He received his Master’s degree in photography from the Fachhochschule Dortmund in 2006. Shi Guowei is concerned with notions of historical and cultural traditions as they relate to current socio-political issues and straddles the borderline of photography and painting throughout his practice. He currently lives and works in Beijing.

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