Guo Yan, was born in Shanxi Province, China. Yan graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Xi’an Academy of Fine Art in 1995. In 2008 her solo exhibition “Purple Utopia” was well received at the TS1 Gallery in Beijing. From 2006 to 2009, her group exhibitions included Chinese Sick Men, Art Next Gallery, New York City; The Sky of the Future, Chinese art Museum in Beijing; Root – 3Aw Gallery in Paris; The Artistic Chengdu, Sichuan Provincial Contemporary Oil Painting Exhibition, Chengdu, China; Shock – Facing the Power of Nature, Blue Space Gallery, Chengdu, China; Art in Two Cities, Tianyuan Art Museum, Qingdao, China; Asia International Contemporary art Exhibition, Hongkong; Stories of Shape and Color, the Exhibition for Young Artists, Shanghai; The Curtain, Feizi Gallery Shanghai, Floating – New Generation in Art in China, Seoul, Korea; The Transparent World, Y & G Contemporary Art Exhibition, Lhasa, China; 5+3 – Beauty Artists Fine Works Exhibition, Chengdu and the Woman Art Exhibition, Kai Gallery, Chengdu; Potential Chengdu, Contemporary Young Artist Exhibition, Chengdu; The First New Power China Contemporary Art Biennale 2006, TS1 Art Museum, Beijing; The First New Power China Contemporary Art Biennale 2006, Y &G Art Museum, Shanghai and 2006’s The Chengdu Youth – Contemporary Art Exhibition, Macao.