Dr Sophie Guo

Sophie Guo is an Associate Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Asian Art at The Courtauld Institute of Art. She specialises in contemporary art from China and its diasporas within transnational and global contexts. Her current research project examines how biotechnology and advanced biomedicine shape artistic imaginaries around the body, gender, race, and ecology within transnational Sinophone cultures from the late 1980s to the present. She teaches a range of topics spanning the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in East Asian art histories for undergraduate and master’s students. Key subjects and themes of her teaching include: Chinese avant-garde, feminist and queer art histories, art and technology, art in globalisation, contemporary Asian art and the ‘New Silk Road.’

She has participated in conferences organised by the Association for Art History and the European Association for Chinese Studies and has delivered invited talks at institutions including Chisenhale Gallery, Zabludowicz Collection, Princeton University, OCAT Beijing, and City University of Hong Kong. She is a member of the British Art Network of the Paul Mellon Centre.