SELECTIVE EXHIBITIONS & AWARDS: *solo shows marked by asterisk)
2005 -Zhimin Guan Solo Show, Rourke Art Museum, Moorhead,MN
2005 -Spring Gala Silent Auction/Exhibition, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND
2004 - Autumn art Auction, Northe Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND
2004 -* Zhimin Guan Solo Show, Kemper art Gallery, Kansas State University, Manhattan,KS
2004 -The Spring Gala Silent Auction/Exhibition, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND
2004 -Chinese Artist in Academia, Columbia, Missouri, Columbia, MO
2004 -Spring Gala Silent Auction/Exhibition, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND
2004 -44th Midwestern Invitational, Rourke Art Museum,Moorhead, MN
2004 -MSUM Faculty Art Exhibition, Hughes Fine Art Center, Univ. of North Dakota,Grand Forks,ND
2003 Across the Divide-the First Exhibition& Symposium of Chinese Art Faculty in American Universities,
Gatov & Werby, Fine Art Complex, California State University,Long Beach, CA
2003 *Zhimin Guan Solo Retrospective, Moss-Thorns Gallery of Art, Fort Hays State University,Hays, KS
2003 International Realism Exhibition, Period Gallery, Omaha,NE
2003 32nd Annual Area Invitational Art Show,Waage Art Gallery,Fergus Falls,MN(Merit Award)
2003 The 44th Midwestern Invitational Exhibition of Fine Art, Rourke Art Museum, Moorhead, MN
2003 The Amorous Art, Rourke Art Museum Gallery, Moorhead, MN
2003 The Spring Gala Silent Auction/Exhibition, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND
2003 Spring Gala Silent Auction/Exhibition, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND
2003 SANCTUARY Invitational, Cyrus M Running Gallery, Concordia College, Moorhead, MN
2002 31st Annual Area Invitational Art Show,Waage Art Gallery,Fergus Falls,MN (Merit Award)
2002 Autumn Art Auction & Exhibition, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND
2002 Contemporary North Art Exhibition, Bemidji Art Center, Bemidji, MN (Best of Show)
2002 43rd Midwestern Invitational, Rourke Art Museum,Moorhead, MN
2002 *Zhimin Guan Paintings,Cyrus M Running Gallery, Concordia College, Moorhead, MN
2002 Spring Gala & Art Exhibition, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND
2002 *”Fossils” Recent Paintings by Zhimin Guan, Spirit Room Gallery, Fargo, ND
2002 *”Praying in Landscape” Paintings/Drawing by Zhimin Guan, Waage Art Center, Fergus Falls Community
College (two paintings collected by FFCC)
2001 *Zhimin Guan Paintings Solo Show, Hughes Fine Arts Center Gallery, UND, Grand Forks, ND
2001 42nd Midwestern Invitational, Rourke Art Museum, Moorhead, MN (Honorable Mention)
2001 Georgetown International Art Exhibition, Fraser Gallery, Washington, DC
2001 Autumn Art Auction & Exhibition, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks,ND
2001 Lincoln Avenue Fine Arts Festival 2001.Fergus Falls,MN(Best of Show Award)
2001 Faculty Art Exhibition, MSUM Roland Dille Center for the Arts Gallery,Moorhead, MN
2000 Art on the Plains 2000, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND ( First Place Award)
2000 The American Artists Professional League Membership Exhibition 2000, New York, NY
2000 2000 Realism International Juried Art Exhibition, Period Gallery, Omaha, NE
2000 Lincoln Avenue Fine Arts Festival 2000, A Center for the Arts, Fergus Falls, MN
(Best of Show Award)
2000 Oil Painters of America Mid-Western Art Exhibition,Dunton Gallery,Chicago,IL
2000 Preview 2000 National Art Competition, Bosque Conservatory Art Council, TX
2000 Minnesota Invitational, Bemidji Arts Center, Bemidji, MN
2000 Aesthetics 2000 National, Sandzen Memorial Gallery, Lindsborg, KS (Best of Show)
2000 2000 Spring National Juried Art Exhibition, Museum of the Southwest,
Midland, TX (Third Place Award)
2000 Vision 2000 National Art Exhibition, Chicago- the Windy City Artists Association,Chicago,IL
2000 The Foot on the Door 2000, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
2000 Nude 2000, Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY
2000 Faculty Art Exhibition, MSUM Roland Dille Center for the Arts Gallery, Moorhead,MN
1999 99’Art On the Plains, The Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND
1999 Artist as Teachers Invitational, Moss-Thorns Gallery, Ft Hays State University, KS
1999 3rd National Art Show, Baker Art Center, Liberal, KS
1999 6th Great Plains National, Moss-Thorns Art Gallery, Hays, KS
1999 Faculty Art Exhibition,MSUM Roland Dille Center for the Arts Gallery,Moorhead, MN
1998 Audubon Artists 56th Annual National Art Exhibition, the Salmagundi Club, New York, NY
(The Elaine & Hewitt Memorial Award)
1998 Contemporary Realism III International, CCC/USA, Philadelphia, PA
1998 Last Bus Stop Before the Millennium-the Special Contemporary Realism III Contest, www.cccusa.net
1998 Northern National Juried Art Exhibition, Nicolet College Gallery, Rhinelander, WI
1998 July 4th National Juried Exhibition, Franklin Square Gallery, Southport, NC
1998 1998 National Open Juried Exhibition, Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA
1998 Hilton Head Art League’s National Juried Exhibition, Hilton Head Island, SC
1998 National Juried Art Exhibition, Baker Art Center, Liberal, KS (Honorable Mention)
1998 * “A Soul in Silence” MFA Thesis Exhibition, Moss-Thorns Gallery of Art, FHSU, Hays, KS
1998 29th Annual Smoky-Hill Art Exhibition, Hays Art Council, Hays, KS
1998 Annual Phi Theta Kappa Six-State Competitive, McCoy, NE
1998 4th Annual Great Plains National, Moss-Thorn Gallery of Art, Fort Hays State University, Hays, KS
1998 S.H.O.W. National Juried Exhibition, Old Dominion University Gallery of Art, Norfolk, VA
1998 Art On the Plains, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND
1998 Awaken the Senses: the Dream Takes Flight, First Gala & Exhibition, The Plains Art Museum.
1998 Faculty Art Exhibition,MSUM Roland Dille Center for the Arts Gallery, Moorhead, MN
1997 22nd Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Dodge City, KS (Juror’s Award)
1997 5th Fine Art Exhibition of World Association of Chinese Artist, Los Angeles,CA and Tokyo, Japan
1997 Four Person Invitational Exhibition, Noyes Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE
1996 46th Spiva Annual Art Exhibition (ten-state) Joplin, MO (Third Place Award)
1996 Fonner Grand Visions Art Exhibition, Grand Island, NE (Award of Excellence)
1996 12th Annual National Fine Art Exhibition, St. Louis, MO (Best of Show)
1996 *“Awakening”, Solo Show, Hays Art Center Gallery, Hays, KS