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Cai Guo-Qiang    (Chinese, 1957)

  Cai Guo-Qiang - Good Fortune (Works on Paper (Drawings, Watercolors etc.)) h: 50 x w: 40 cm / h: 19.7 x w: 15.7 in
Cai Guo-Qiang
Good Fortune
 
  Cai Guo-Qiang - Kaleidoscope: Time Tunnel (Installations) h: 52 x w: 35.5 x d: 23.5 cm / h: 20.5 x w: 14 x d: 9.3 in
Cai Guo-Qiang
Kaleidoscope: Time Tunnel 2001
 
 

Biography
1957 Born in Quanzhou City, Fujian Province, China
1985 Graduated from the Department of Stage Design, Shanghai Drama Institute, Shanghai, China
1995 Benesse Prize of Transculture Exhibition, 46th Venice Biennial, Italy
1999 The Venice Biennial International Prize-Golden Lion, 48th Venice Biennial, Italy
2001 CalArts/Alpert Award in the Arts, USA
2005 Inopportune awarded Best Monograph Show and Best Installation, International Association of Art Critics United States Section
2007 Hiroshima Award, Japan

Exhibitions
2007 Light Passage, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
2007 The Museum's Collections, New Hangings, Musee national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
2006 Captured Wind Arrested Shadow: Cai Guo Qiang and Lin Hwai-min's Wind Shadow, Eslite Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2006 Head On, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany (solo)
2006 Curator of Echigo-Tsumari Triennial, DMoCA, Japan (solo)
2005 Curator of Virgin Garden: Emersion, China Pavilion, 51st Biennale Di Venezia, Venice, Italy (solo)
2005 The Wall, Millennium Monument Art Museum, Beijing, China; University at Buffalo Art Galleries, Buffalo, New York, USA
2004 Cai Guo Qiang: Inopportune, MASS MoCA, North Adam, USA (solo)
2004 Curated BMoCA: Bunker Museum of Contemporary Art, Kinmen, Taiwan (solo)
2004 The Snow Show, Rovaniemi, Finland
2004 International Film Festival Rotterdam: Exposing Cinema, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2004 26th Bienal Internacional Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2003 Drawing Show, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
2003 The Heroic Century: The Museum of Modern Art Masterpieces, 200 Paintings and Sculptures, Museum of Fine Art, Houston, USA
2003 Alors, la Chine?, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2003 Pulse, Art, Healing, and Transformation, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA
2003 Somewhere Better Than This Place, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, USA
2003 Light Cycle: Explosion Project for Central Park, Creative Time, New York, USA (solo)
2003 Ye Gong Hao Long: Explosion Project for Tate Modern, Tate Modern, London, UK
2003 Cai Guo-Qiang: An Arbitrary History, S.M.A.K. Gent, Belgium.
2003 Cai Guo-Qiang: For Your Pleasure Matrix 204, University of California Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, USA.
2002 Cai Guo-Qiang: Ethereal Flowers, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea Trento, Trento, Italy
2002 Transient Rainbow, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
2002 Cai Guo-Qiang's CHADO Pavilion-Homage to Tenshin Okakura, Hakone Open Air Museum, Hakone, Japan
2002 Ce Qui Arrive, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, France
2002 The First Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
2002 Third Biennale de Montréal, Montréal, Canada
2002 The Galleries Show, The Royal Academy of Art, London, UK
2002 Transient Rainbow, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (solo)
2002 Cai Guo-Qiang, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China (solo)
2001 Mega Wave, Yokohama 2001 International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Yokohama, Japan
2001 Project Refreshing, 49th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2001 An Arbitrary History, Musee d'art Contemporain Lyon, Lyon, France (solo)
2001 Artistic Direction for APEC Cityscape Fireworks, Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation, Shanghai, China (solo)
Selected Collections
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, USA
Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, France
Modern Museum Stockholm, Sweden
Mori Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

Literature
2007 China Art Book. Uta Grosenick / Caspar Schübbe (Ed.), 680 pages, approx. 850 images, trilingual: Engl./Ger./Chin., Dumont Buchverlag, Cologne 2007. www.chinaartbook.de
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