It Doesn’t Matter Doesn’t Matter

It Doesn’t Matter Doesn’t Matter by Anran Guo is exhibiting in The New Gallery’s Main Space from May 22nd – July 11th, 2026.

Opening reception: May 22nd, 2026, from 7 to 9pm

Grounded in Anran Guo’s lived experience as a queer Chinese diasporic artist, “It Doesn’t Matter Doesn’t Matter” reflects on the affective conditions produced by inherited trauma, censorship, and collective amnesia. Through installation, text, sound and moving image, the artist considers how silence and cultural erasure reveal fear as a shared social condition.

Anran Guo (b. 1996, China) is a queer female artist and art educator based in Hamilton and Toronto. She holds a Master of Visual Studies in Studio Art and an Honours Bachelor of Arts in Art and Art History from the University of Toronto. Guo’s practice centers on sculpture and installation. Through the semiotic manipulation of visual information and the forms of found objects, she constructs visual fables and (counter-)monuments that offer layered critiques of social and political systems. Her work has been exhibited at YYZ Artists’ Outlet, the Art Gallery of Mississauga, Hamilton Artists Inc., Centre[3], and the Art Museum at the University of Toronto, among others. Her practice is generously supported by the Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts.

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Image: No One is Coming (2026); Video Still Credit: Yifan Wang.

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