Chinese, 20th – 21st century, male. Active in Beijing and Sydney, Australia. Born 1957, in Beijing. Painter, installation artist. Guan Wei graduated in 1986 from the Department of Fine Arts at Beijing Capital University. Starting in 1989, Guan began a series of artistic residencies in Australia: at the Tasmanian School of Art in Hobart, at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, and at the Australian National University’s Canberra School of Art. Though Guan’s ancestry links him to Manchurian nobles in China’s late-nineteenth-century Qing dynasty, he spent much of his adult life in Australia, becoming a citizen in ...