11:30 am, Tuesday, April 19, 2005
Palmer Museum
Anderson Endowment Lecture Series
School of Visual Arts, Penn State University

Gu is one of the most high-profile members of the Chinese diaspora. Since 1981, he has participated in numerous solo and international group exhibitions all over the world. His art has also been widely discussed and reviewed by important international newspapers and journals such as The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, and San Francisco Chronicle. Gu's art was included in the 1997 film Under Wraps, which was selected for the Vancouver International Film Festival and the Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival in New York, and was nominated for an award for Best Cultural Document Film in the Toronto International Film Festival. He was one of more than 40 artists profiled in National Public Television's series Art in the Twenty-First Century. Since 1993, he has been at work on a project sponsored by the United Nations, for which he has erected a series of human hair installations in more than 20 countries.