Zhen Guo is a Chinese-American artist and curator born in China, graduated from Shandong Art School in 1976 and from the China Academy of Art 1982. Guo was one of the earliest explorers of art after the reform of China. She studied at San Francisco Art College in 1986 and was a visiting scholar at the School of Art of York University, Canada 1987. She established the Zhen Guo Art Studio in New York in 1988.