Independent curator and art critic Jau-lan Guo was born in Taiwan and lives in Taipei, Taiwan. In 2006 she completed her Ph.D from the Graduate Institute of Fine Arts, National Taiwan Normal University. Guo taught in the Department of Fine Arts, Huafan University from 1996 to 2008 and was adjunct associate professor in the Department of Fine Arts, National Taiwan University of Arts from 2008 to 2011. She taught history of modern art and contemporary art. Her Doctoral Dissertation "Robert Rauschenberg's Art in the 1960s: Toward Postmodern" examines how the American postmoderntheorists and art critics transplanted French theories through analyzing Rauschenberg's art.
Trained as an art historian, Guo’s studies and projects have extended to the visual culture related issues in contemporary art. So far she has curated seven major exhibitions, they are:
1. Polyphonic Mosaic: CO6 Avant-Garde Documenta (National Taiwan Museum of Arts, Taichung, Taiwan), 2006
2. Exercise of 0 and 1, 2008
3. Anti-type: Floating over the Stereotype, 2008
4. Nostalgia for Future, 2009
5. Somnambulism: Phantasmagoric Fugue, 2010
6. Paradise: Under RE-Construction (ISCP, New York), 2011
7. Taiwanese Contemporary Art (TCA Project) (ISCP, New York）, 2011
In 2011 Jau-Lan Guo was selected by Taiwan’s Council for Cultural Affairs for curator-in-residence in New York, an exchange program with Iscp(International Studio and Curatorial Program). During the four months of her residency, she organized the Taiwanese Contemporary Art (TCA Project), an experiment of “performative curating” which approached the limitations of curatorship as well as the effectiveness of identity through borrowing the authorship from the participating artists. |
