Hou Weiguo, born in Shahe, Hebei Province in 1988, was admitted to Central Academy of Fine Arts for undergraduate study in 2009, and received a Doctor’s Degree in Fine Arts in 2021. In 2019, he joined Beijing Artists Association as a member of Printmaking Art Committee, and in the same year, he visited Institute of Electronic Arts, Alfred University in America as a visiting scholar. Later on, he went to Japan for a study visit with the support of Wang Shikuo Scholarship. He also participated in the 58th Venice Biennale as a curatorial team member of China Pavilion. He is now an assistant professor at Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology.

In recent years, the artistic creation of Hou Weiguo has revolved around printmaking and has expanded to many fields of art. The artist began to attract attention since his solo exhibition “Record of Horse Judgement: The 33rd Engraving Method of Hou Yiguo” in Central Academy of Fine Arts in 2016. In 2017, his innovative art of printmaking scraps attracted wide attention and won several awards. In the same year, his solo exhibition “Book of Disquiet” was held in Zhuzhong Art Museum in Beijing. In 2018, his monograph “Record of Horse Judgement: The 33rd Engraving Method of Hou Yiguo” was published by CITIC Press. In 2019, his work titled “Lean Horse No.1” was selected in the 13th National Art Exhibition and nominated for the Third Chinese Fine Art Awards. Based on the research of printmaking and inspired by Walter Benjamin, Hou Weiguo formed his own creation concept of “digital aura” in recent years by introducing the means of technology for images into artistic creation. He held his solo exhibition “Re-Aura” in 2020 in Song Art District. In 2021, Hou Weiguo’s doctoral thesis “The Intellectuality of Printmaking” won the “Outstanding Paper Award” of The Central Academy of Fine Arts. Also, Hou Weiguo has been active in many contemporary art exhibitions. So far, he has held three important individual exhibitions in Central Academy of Fine Arts, Zhuzhong Art Museum and East zone of Beijing Song Art Museum. Hou Weiguo has formed his unique artistic outlook by combining artistic creation, exhibition practice, theoretical research and the boundary expansion of printmaking.