Sihan Guo

Sihan Guo. Courtesy of the artist.

Installation view of ‘Aftershock’ at PODIUM, Hong Kong, 22 March—24 May 2025. Photo: Lok Hang Wu. Courtesy of PODIUM, Hong Kong.

Sihan Guo, kneeling barnacles, at the altar of erosion, copper faces conceived in succulent, giant vines—swollen, then torn, gasping, desublimating into mudras; oxidized metal, sienna, green ochre, dusky rose, 2025, oil on wood panel, 100 x 90 cm (39.4 x 35.4 in). Photo: Lok Hang Wu. Courtesy of the artist and PODIUM, Hong Kong.

Sihan Guo, kneeling barnacles, at the altar of erosion, copper faces conceived in succulent, giant vines—swollen, then torn, gasping, desublimating into mudras; oxidized metal, sienna, green ochre, dusky rose (detail), 2025, oil on wood panel, 100 x 90 cm (39.4 x 35.4 in). Photo: Lok Hang Wu. Courtesy of the artist and PODIUM, Hong Kong.

Sihan Guo, neural spurs, a faulty scan of cacti, fresh gills; olive green, verdigris, sienna, ultramarine, 2025, oil and craving on wood panel, 40 x 30 cm (15.7 x 11.8 in). Photo: Lok Hang Wu. Courtesy of the artist and PODIUM, Hong Kong.

Sihan Guo, neural spurs, a faulty scan of cacti, fresh gills; olive green, verdigris, sienna, ultramarine (detail), 2025, oil and craving on wood panel, 40 x 30 cm (15.7 x 11.8 in). Photo: Lok Hang Wu. Courtesy of the artist and PODIUM, Hong Kong.

Sihan Guo, vertebrae of dormant monolith, collapse into thousands of chiseled folds, stirring up silver-throated murmurs, migrating over the far horizon; ashen blue-grey, pale olive, burnt umber, magenta, 2025, oil on wood panel, 130 x 120 cm (51.2 x 47.2 in). Photo: Lok Hang Wu. Courtesy of the artist and PODIUM, Hong Kong.

Sihan Guo, vertebrae of dormant monolith, collapse into thousands of chiseled folds, stirring up silver-throated murmurs, migrating over the far horizon; ashen blue-grey, pale olive, burnt umber, magenta (detail), 2025, oil on wood panel, 130 x 120 cm (51.2 x 47.2 in). Photo: Lok Hang Wu. Courtesy of the artist and PODIUM, Hong Kong.

Biography
The abstract experiments of Sihan Guo (b. 2000 in Shanghai, lives and works in Shanghai and New York) construct a landscape of techno-Gnostic fantasy. Evoking the idea of disintegration, absence, and self-erasure, the swirling, stem-like textures of the drips in her paintings echo Deleuze’s theory of the Rhizome, suggesting unregulated flows of energy across a rimless, de-centered structure of reality. Through her laborious treatments of surfaces and paint sculpting process, the vessel-like, weblike, synaptic backdrop of dissolving landscapes orient towards a post-human, post-subject, and collapsed vision of space, enthralling the viewers with the enigmatic liminality of presence and absence, reality and virtuality. Her solo exhibitions include Cassina Projects, Milan (upcoming 2025) and Commons Gallery at New York University, New York (2022). She also participated in group exhibitions including Public Gallery, London (2025), Alexander Berggruen, New York (2024), L21 Home, Palma (2024), Galleria Pedro Cera, Lisbon (2024), Third Street Gallery, Shanghai (2024), NARS Foundation, New York (2023), and Chambers Fine Art, Salt Point (2023), among others.

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Works

Sihan Guo
kneeling barnacles, at the altar of erosion, copper faces conceived in succulent, giant vines—swollen, then torn, gasping, desublimating into mudras; oxidized metal, sienna, green ochre, dusky rose
2025
Oil on wood panel
100 x 90 cm | 39.4 x 35.4 in

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Sihan Guo
neural spurs, a faulty scan of cacti, fresh gills; olive green, verdigris, sienna, ultramarine
2025
Oil and craving on wood panel
40 x 30 cm | 15.7 x 11.8 in

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Sihan Guo
vertebrae of dormant monolith, collapse into thousands of chiseled folds, stirring up silver-throated murmurs, migrating over the far horizon; ashen blue-grey, pale olive, burnt umber, magenta
2025
Oil on wood panel
130 x 120 cm | 51.2 x 47.2 in

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Exhibitions

Aftershock
Artists: Ivana Bašić, Ittah Yoda, Sihan Guo, Yein Lee, Diane Severin Nguyen
Hong Kong
22 March—24 May 2025

PODIUM

Unit 9D, E Tat Factory Building,
4 Heung Yip Road,
Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong

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