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| Biography of Cai Guo-Qiang |
| 1957 |
Born in
Quanzhou City, Fujian Province, China |
| 1985 |
Graduated
from Department of Stage Design, Shanghai Drama Institute |
| Awards |
CalArts/Alpert Award in the Arts, USA, 2001
The Venice Biennial International Prize—Golden Lion, 48th Venice Biennial, Italy, 1999
Oribe Awards, Gifu, Japan, 1997
Benesse Prize of Transculture Exhibition, 46th Venice Biennial, Italy, 1995
Japan Cultural Design Prize, Tokyo, Japan, 1995
International Association of Art Critics United States Section, Best Monograph Show and Best Installation in a Museum, 2005 |
| Present |
Lives and works in New York City, USA |
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| Solo Exhibitions and Projects |
| 2006 |
Collaboration with Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan, Taipei, Taiwan
Searching for Dreams in the Canals, Suzhou Museum, China
Golden Lasso, Explosion project for the opening of Orange County Performing Arts Center, Newport Beach, USA
Head On, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany
Curate: DMoCA 3, Echigo-Tsumari Triennial, Japan
Long Scroll, National Gallery of Canada, Shawinigan, Quebec, Canada
Curate: Long March: Chinese Contemporary Art Education Panel, Yan'an, China
Transparent Monument, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Inopportune, SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA |
| 2005 |
Tornado: Explosion Project for the Festival of China, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C., USA
Curator of UMoCA exhibition by Jennifer Wen Ma : Aeolian Garden , Arte all'Arte, Arte Continua,
Colla di Val d'Elsa, Italy (brochure)
Life Beneath the Shadow, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, UK (cat.)
Paradise, The Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland (cat.)
Curator of Virgin Garden : Emersion, China Pavilion, 51st Biennale Di Venezia, Venice, Italy (cat.)
Black Rainbow, Institut Valencia d'Art Modern, Valencia, Spain (cat.)
On Black Fireworks, Institut Valencia d'Art Modern, Valencia, Spain (cat.) |
| 2004 |
Cai Guo-Qiang: Inopportune, MASS MoCA, North Adams, USA (cat.)
Cai Guo-Qiang: Traveler, Freer & Sackler Gallery and Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA (brochure)
Curator of BMoCA: Bunker Museum of Contemporary Art, Kinmen, Taiwan (cat.,video, brochure) |
| 2003 |
Man, Eagle and Eye in the Sky: Kite Project for Siwa, Egypt, Siwa, Egypt (cat., video)
Light Cycle: Explosion Project for Central Park, Creative Time, New York, USA (video)
Explosion Event: Light Cycle Over Central Park, Asia Society and Museum, New York, USA (cat.)
Ye Gong Hao Long: Explosion Project for Tate Modern, Tate Modern, London, UK (video)
Cai Guo-Qiang: An Arbitrary History, S.M.A.K. Gent, Belgium
Cai Guo-Qiang: For Your Pleasure Matrix 204, University of California Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, USA
Curator of Pause: DMoCA Inaugural Exhibition with Kiki Smith, Niigata, Japan (cat.) |
| 2002 |
Cai Guo-Qiang: Ethereal Flowers, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea Trento, Trento, Italy (cat.)
Transient Rainbow, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (video)
Cai Guo-Qiang's CHADO Pavilion—Homage to Tenshin Okakura, Hakone Open Air Museum, Hakone, Japan (cat.)
Cai Guo-Qiang, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China (cat.) |
| 2001 |
An Arbitrary History, Musee d'art Contemporain Lyon, Lyon, France (cat.)
Artistic Direction for APEC Cityscape Fireworks, Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation, Shanghai, China (video)
Curator of UMoCA and inaugural exhibition by Ni Tsai-chin Who Is the Happiest?, Arte all' Arte, Arte Continua, Colla di Val d'Elsa, Italy (cat.)
Performing Chinese Ink Painting, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Impression Oil Drawings, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, Canada |
| 2000 |
Ascending a Staircase, 69th Regiment Armory, New York, USA (video)
Project for Projects, Fondation Cartier pour l' art Contemporain, Paris, France (cat.) |
| 1999 |
I Am the Y2K Bug, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria (cat.) |
| 1998 |
No Construction, No Destruction: Bombing the Taiwan Museum of Art, Taiwan Museum of Art, Taichung, Taiwan (cat., video, CD-ROM)
Daydreaming, Eslite Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan (cat.) |
| 1997 |
Cultural Melting Bath: Projects for the 20th Century, Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA (cat.)
Flying Dragon in the Heavens, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humblebaek, Denmark (cat., video) |
| 1996 |
The Century with Mushroom Clouds - Projects for the 20th Century, Nevada, Nuclear Test Site, Salt Lake, New York, USA |
| 1994 |
Chaos, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (cat.)
Concerning Flame, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (cat.)
The Horizon from the Pan-Pacific, Iwaki, Fukushima, Japan (brochure and video)
From the Pan-Pacific, Iwaki City Art Museum, Fukushima, Japan (cat.)
Calendar of Life, Gallery APA, Nagoya, Japan (cat.) |
| 1993 |
Project to Extend the Great Wall of China by 10,000 Meters, Jiayuguan City, China (book)
Long Mai (The Dragon Meridian), P3 art and environment, Tokyo, Japan (brochure) |
| 1992 |
Wailing Wall–From the Engine of Four Hundred Cars, IBM Kawasaki City Galley, Kawasaki, Japan (cat.) |
| 1991 |
Primeval Fireball: The Project for Projects, P3 art and environment, Tokyo, Japan (cat.) |
| 1990 |
Works 1988/89, Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka, Japan (brochure) |
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Selected Group Exhibitions and Projects |
| 2005 |
Made for This World, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
The Wall, Millennium Monument Art Museum, Beijing, China; University at Buffalo Art Galleries, Buffalo, New York
Quantum Grids, Sert Gallery, Carpenter Center for the Arts, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Translation, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Can Buildings Curate, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York
[My private] Heroes, MARTa Herford, Herford, Germany
Trading Place, Taipei Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan
Universal Experience: Art, Life and the Tourist's Eye, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA (cat.)
Dreaming Now, The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, USA (cat.) |
| 2004 |
Past in Reverse, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, USA
Miramar Air Show, San Diego Museum of Art and Marine Corps Air Station, San Diego, USA
26 th Bienal Internacional Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
All Under Heaven, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium (cat.)
The Snow Show, Rovaniemi, Finland
International Film Festival Rotterdam: Exposing Cinema, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (cat.) |
| 2003 |
Drawing Show, University of Florida, Gainsville, Florida, USA (cat.)
The Heroic Century: The Museum of Modern Art Masterpieces, 200 Paintings and Sculptures, Museum of Fine Art, Houston, USA (cat.)
Alore, Chine? Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (cat.)
Pulse, Art, Healing, and Transformation, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA (cat.)
Somewhere Better Than This Place, Th e Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, USA |
| 2002 |
Ce Qui Arrive, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, France. (cat.)
The First Guangzhou Triennial. Reinterpretation: A Decade of Experimental Chinese Art, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
3rd Biennale de Montréal-2002, Montréal, Canada
The Galleries Show, The Royal Academy of Art, London, UK (video)
Magnet: Foreign Artists in Tuscany, Luigi Pecci Center for Contemporary Art, Pistoia, Italy
Tokachi International Contemporary Art Exhibition: Demeter, Obihiro, Japan (cat.)
The Power of Art—The 2nd Inaugural Show of the Prefectural Museum of Art, The Prefectural Museum of Art, Hyogo, Kobe, Japan
Red Continent, Gwangju Art Museum, Gwangju, Korea (cat.)
ev+ a 2002, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland
M Meeting, Zhejiang Library, Hangzhou, China
Art That Heals, Apexart Gallery, New York, USA
Necessity of Relationship, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy (cat.)
Painting without Painting, Museum für bildende Künste, Leipzig, Germany (cat.) |
| 2001 |
Form Follows Fiction, Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy (cat.)
Mega Wave, Yokohama 2001 International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Yokohama, Japan (cat.)
Valencia de Bienale, Valencia, Spain (cat.)
Project Refreshing, 49 th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (cat.)
Locus/Focus, Sonsbeek 9, Arnhem, The Netherlands (cat.)
Gift, Palazzo Papesse, Siena, Italy. Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona, USA (2002). The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, USA (2002) (cat.)
Visual environment for /Asunder, Yin Mei Dance, Danspace, St. Mark's Church, New York, USA (video) |
| 2000 |
Shanghai Spirit, Shanghai Biennial, Shanghai Museum of Art, China (cat.)
Open End—MoMA 2000, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (cat.)
media_city_seoul, Seoul Metropolitan Museum, Seoul, Korea (cat.)
Echigo-Tasumari Art Triennial, Niigata, Japan (cat.)
The Quite in the Land, Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil (cat.)
Sharing Exoticism, 5th Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France (cat.)
Art/Unlimited/Basel/2000, Art/31/Basel, Basel, Switzerland
The Act of Resistance, Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, Donostia-San Sabastian, Spain
Biennale of Sydney 2000, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (cat.)
Over the Edges, SMAK, Gent, Belgium (cat.)
2000 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA (cat.)
Outbound, Houston Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, USA (cat.)
Wall, National Museum of History, Taiwan (cat.)
Gratitude, Taiwan Museum of Art, Taiwan |
| 1999 |
Art-Worlds in Dialogue, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany (cat.)
Zeitwenden, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany (cat.)
Kunstwegen, Stadtische Galerie Nordhorn, Nordhorn, Germany (cat.)
Beyond The Future, The Third Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Brisbane, Australia (cat.)
Aperto over All, 48 th Venice Biennial, Italy (cat.)
Hiriya in the Museum: Artists' and Architects' Proposals for Rehabilitation of the Site, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel (cat.)
International Currents in Contemporary Art, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain
Looking for a Place, The Third International Biennial, SITE Santa Fe, USA (cat.)
Opening S.M.A.K, Museum of Contemporary Art, Gent, Belgium (book)
Panorama 2000, Centraal Museum Utrecht, Netherlands (cat.) |
| 1998 |
Remanence, Melbourne Festival, Melbourne, Australia (cat.)
Issey Miyake Making Things, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, France; ACE Gallery, New York, USA (1999) Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan (2000) (book)
Crossings, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa , Canada (cat.)
Inside Out: New Chinese Art, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art & Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, USA (1999); MARCO, Monterey, Mexico (1999); Tacoma Art Museum and Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, USA (1999) (cat.)
Global Vision: New Art from the 90's part II, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece (brochure)
Taipei Biennial “Site of Desire", Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan (cat.)
Where Heaven and Earth Meet, Art Museum of the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, NY, USA (bro.)
La Ville, le Jardin, la memoire: 1998, 2000, 1999, Academie de France a Rome, Rome, Italy (1999, 2000) (cat.)
Wounds: Between Democracy and Redemption in Contemporary Art, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (cat.) |
| 1997 |
Cities on the Move, Secession, Vienna, Austria (cat); Museum of Contemporary Art Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France; P.S.1, New York, USA (1998); Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humblebaek, Denmark (1999) (cat.), Hayward Gallery London, UK (1999) (Cat.); Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland (1999) (cat.)
On Life, Beauty, Translation, and Other Difficulties, 5th International Istanbul Biennial, Turkey (cat.)
Future, Past, Present, 47th Venice Biennial, Italy (cat.)
Performance Anxiety, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, U.S.A.; SITE, Santa Fe, USA (cat. with CD-ROM)
Promenade in Asia II, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (cat.) |
| 1996 |
The Hugo Boss Prize 1996, Guggenheim Museum Soho, New York, USA (cat.)
The Red Gate, Museum van Hedendaagse kunst, Gent, Belgium (cat.)
Origins and Myths of Fire - New Art from Japan, China and Korea, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan (cat.)
Universalis, 23rd International Biennial of Sao Paulo, Brazil (cat.)
Asian-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Australia (cat.)
Between Heavens and Earth - Aspects of Contemporary Japanese Art II, Nagoya City Art Museum, Japan (cat.); Tamayo Museum, Mexico City, Mexico (cat.)
In the Ruins of Twentieth Century, The Institute for Contemporary Art, P.S.1 Museum, New York, USA (cat.) |
| 1995 |
Contemplation, The Ho-Am Museum, Seoul, Korea (cat.)
Ripple Across the Water, Watarium Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan (cat.)
Transculture, 46th Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy (cat.)
Art in Japan Today 1985-1995, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan (cat.)
The 1st Johannesburg Biennial, Johannesburg, South Africa (cat.)
The 51st Scripps Ceramics Annual, Ruth Handler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, USA (bro.) |
| 1994 |
Heart of Darkness, Rijksmuseum Kruller-Muller, Otterlo, Holland (cat.)
Creativity in Asian Art Now, Hiroshima City Museum, Hiroshima, Japan (cat.)
Well Spring, Bath Festival Exhibition, Bath, UK (cat.)
Open System, Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Ibaragi, Japan (cat.)
Making New Kyoto '94, Kyoto, Japan
Promenade in Asia, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (cat.) |
| 1993 |
Silent Energy, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK (cat.)
Outdoor Workshop ‘93, The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Shigaraki, Japan (bro.) |
| 1992 |
Encountering the Others, The Kassel International Art Exhibition, Hann. Munden, Germany (cat. and book)
Das Kunstwerk in Zeitaleer Seiner Telekommunizerbarkeit, Vienna, Austria (cat.)
Looking for Tree of Life, the Museum of Modern art, Saitama, Japan (cat.) |
| 1991 |
Exceptional Passages, Museum City Project, Fukuoka, Japan (bro.) |
| 1990 |
The 7th Japan Ushimado International Art Festival, Okayama, Japan (cat.)
Chine Demain pour hier, Pourrieres, Aix-en-Provence, France (book)
Museum City Tenjin ‘90, Fukuoka, Japan (cat.) |
| 1989 |
'89 Tama River Fussa Art Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan (cat.) |
| 1985 |
The Shanghai and Fujian Youth Modern Art Joint Exhibition, Fuzhou City Museum, Fujian, China (bro.)
Wuyi-Shan Open Air Exhibition, Fujian, China |
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