“Letter to the North” Sva FineArts Open Studio Installation view
This film originates from letters preserved by my grandmother, exchanged between her and her father during the family’s relocation in the period of China’s Third Front construction in the 1960s.
Open Studio
Monday, May 4 · 6–9pm
335 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011
I’ll be in Studio 5-2, with a screening of my essay film “letter to the North” in Installation Room 3 on the 4th floor.
Come by, watch the film, and feel free to chat.
Out of Scale
Exhibition Installation view
A two-person exhibition with Xingzheng Bao, recently on view at SVA Chelsea Gallery. The project began from a state of instability, where spaces seemed either still in use or just abandoned. Traces of labor, planning, and unfinished materials remained, but never fully settled into place. Documents, images, and objects gradually drifted away from clear purposes, staying in a suspended condition rather than pointing to a fixed function or reconstructing a specific history. What stayed with me after the show is the persistent gap between planning and living, and those residual spaces that have not been fully absorbed into any narrative. After the exhibition ended, it became clearer that some things do not disappear with the space, but continue to exist in other forms.
In Narrow Strata
2025
The two interactive photographic installations are each composed of a scroll, connected end to end to form a continuous loop. Using found cylindrical objects and hand cranks, I constructed a manually operated rotational mechanism that invites viewers to “push” the narrative forward through the act of turning.
Out of Scale
A two-person exhibition
📍 SVA Chelsea Gallery
🗓 Feb 11 – Feb 24, 2026
🥂 Reception: Feb 17 6-8pm
Artists:
Zekai Guo
Xingzheng Bao
This exhibition looks at hometown experiences through history, bureaucracy, and myth, and how they continue to shape everyday affects
📍 601 W 26th St, FL 15
New York, NY 10001
Echoes of the Third Front_installation view
2025
Mixed media (photographs, headphone, pseudo-archives, gel-transfered image on wood, brick mold, bricks)
Size variable
After arriving in New York, I began searching for places that echoed the history of Yinchuan and eventually found the Cold War–era Nike Missile Sites hidden in the forests at the city’s edge. When I first entered one of these sites, a plane passed overhead, and the sudden tension of that moment became the project’s point of departure. Guided by this sensation, I used photography, sound, and pseudo-archival materials to reconstruct a narrative of geographical dislocation and historical echoes.
The Letter“1963”
2025
Inkjet print, a framed letter, a framed sketch
10 × 25 inches
This work includes an imagined soldier’s diary, its accompanying diary drawing, and a photograph of a found stone used as a marker. The letters, written in imagined military voices, intertwine the oral histories of a soldier and my grandmother.
Excited to share that Zekai Guo and Xingzheng Bao have works included in “Embodiment”, a group exhibition at VillageOneArt opening this Thursday.
Here’s a little peek of our pieces on the wall, would love to see you at the opening!
Opening Reception
📅 December 11 (Thursday), from 6pm
📍 VillageOneArt, 150 W 25th St, #403, New York, NY
On view: December 11, 2025 – January 17, 2026
Letter“1961”
2025
Inkjet print, a framed letters, a framed sketch, found magazine pages, gel-transfered image on wood, brick mold, headphone
34 × 36 inches
The sound installation plays an imagined air-raid shelter report, paired with fabricated letters—texts I reconstructed solely from my grandmother’s memories of having written such documents during China’s Third Front Construction.
BFA Fine Arts Open Studios
Monday, Dec 8, 2025 · 6–9pm
335 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011
I’ll be in Studio 5-2 and 4th Floor–Installation Room 3.
Come by, see the work, happy to talk.
