XI GUO NWS

Xi Guo, Signature member of National Watercolor Society, was born in Shanghai, China. She earned her BFA in oil painting from Shanghai Normal University and her MFA from Savannah College of Art and Design, and majored in Photography.

Xi started to focus on painting with watercolor about eight years ago and soon became an international award-winning artist. Her articles and paintings have been featured in the International Artist Magazine, the Art of Watercolor Magazine and Watercolor Artists Magazine. In 2015, Xi won a cash price at the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours’ 203rd Open Exhibition and her paintings were chosen by R.I every year since then. In the same year, Xi won a major Award from Shenzhen International Watercolor Biennial. In 2016 and 2018, Xi’s paintings were accepted by American Watercolor Society’s international exhibition. Moreover, Xi won a merchandise award and a cash price at the National Watercolor Society’s International Exhibition in 2016 and 2017. Most recently, Xi received third place at the Biennial International Prize “Marche d’Acqua”Fabriano Waterclour 2018.

Xi has been spellbound by the Eastern philosophies due to her background, especially Taoism and Zen that have been comforting her struggle of seeking the meaning of life. Lately, her obsession of life and death became the main concept of her work including portraits and nature. Therefore, Xi, as a Taoist, has been seeking the beauty of the forms of lives, delightful and ugly, booming and straggling, flourishing and dead. Her paintings are also about the need for something that is capable of taking viewers out of here, out of themselves, even if they know that everything is phantom, everything, excluding no-thing, is not permanent, even if it is just for a moment. It's about investigating the impermanence of images, thoughts, realities and dreams.