Born in Dalian, China, and currently based in Hamilton, Canada, Anran Guo works across sculpture, installation, performance, and moving image to examine how systems of power are internalized, negotiated, and resisted in ordinary life.

Shaped by queer and Chinese diasporic experience, Guo’s practice reconfigures everyday objects to unsettle the social codes and power relations embedded in their familiar forms and functions. Critical and playful, restrained and unsettling, absurd and confrontational, her work asks how obedience is rehearsed, how power comes to feel ordinary, and what forms of refusal remain possible. Guo also works as an art educator, extending her practice into shared situations of making, questioning, and unlearning. Her practice is generously supported by the Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts.