Born in Beijing, established the "Tactile Sensation Group" in 1987. He then suspended the activities of the "Tactile Sensation Group" and formed the "New Analysts Group" in 1988 with Chen Shaoping and Wang Luyan. Gu Dexin is an important member of New Analysts Group, the early conceptualism group in China. He is one of the artists from China participated in the First International Exhibition - Earth Magic in the Pompidou Center, Paris in 1989 accepted by the West. His art is centralized in a very pure way. Solo Exhibitions had been hold in Beijing and Shanghai in China; Switzerland and France.