2021 Filter Photo Festival Artist Talk: Guanyu Xu
@ 21c Museum Hotel Chicago
Online
Opening Sunday, September 26th, at 12PM
GUANYU XU
Xu will introduce his ongoing project Resident Aliens and previous projects Temporarily Censored Home, Complex Formation, and One Land To Another.
徐冠宇 Guanyu Xu is an artist currently based in Chicago and a lecturer at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the winner of the Hyéres International Festival (2020), PHOTOFAIRS Shanghai Exposure Award (2020), Philadelphia Photo Arts Center Annual Competition (2019), Lensculture Emerging Talent Award (2019), and Kodak Film Photo Award (2019). He has received artist residencies including ACRE (Chicago, IL), Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT), and Light Work (Syracuse, NY). His works have been exhibited and screened internationally including the Aperture Foundation, New York; ICP Museum, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; New Orlean Museum of Art, New Orleans; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Wesleyan University, Middletown; Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland; Mint Museum, Charlotte; 36th Kasseler Dokfest, Germany, and others. His work can be found in public collections including The Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, and New Orleans Museum of Art. His works have been featured in numerous publications including The New York Times, ArtAsiaPacific, The New Yorker, W Magazine, Harper’s Magazine, Musée Magazine, Dazed China, Der Greif, and China Photographic Publishing House.
Date: September 26, 2021
Time: 12:00 pm CT
Cost: FREE via Zoom with registration
Location: Online
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