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Guoqiang Cai BIOGRAPHY
Born 1957 Quanzhou City, Fujian Province, China. Known for: Installation sculpture, abstract painting.
Described as "arguably the most widely recognized Chinese artist of our Day", Cai Guo-Qiang lives in both New York City and Bejing. He was raised in the port city of Quanzhou in Fujian Province where... Read full biography
Described as "arguably the most widely recognized Chinese artist of our Day", Cai Guo-Qiang lives in both New York City and Bejing. He was raised in the port city of Quanzhou in Fujian Province where his father was a calligrapher and a worker in a book store. During the Cultural Revolution, young... Read full biography
Described as "arguably the most widely recognized Chinese artist of our Day", Cai Guo-Qiang lives in both New York City and Bejing. He was raised in the port city of Quanzhou in Fujian Province where his father was a calligrapher and a worker in a book store. During the Cultural Revolution, young Guo-Qiang participated in many parades and demonstrations, but the Revolution ended when he was age 19. He then studied set design, and acquired his life-long interest in expressing in his artwork... Read full biography
Described as "arguably the most widely recognized Chinese artist of our Day", Cai Guo-Qiang lives in both New York City and Bejing. He was raised in the port city of Quanzhou in Fujian Province where his father was a calligrapher and a worker in a book store. During the Cultural Revolution, young Guo-Qiang participated in many parades and demonstrations, but the Revolution ended when he was age 19. He then studied set design, and acquired his life-long interest in expressing in his artwork themes of current, everyday Chinese culture. Especially influential was his artist friend, Chen Zhen. Freed from government restraints, Gua-Qiang participated in the early phases of the New Wave of Art Expression in the mid 1980s, but departed for Paris... Read full biography
Described as "arguably the most widely recognized Chinese artist of our Day", Cai Guo-Qiang lives in both New York City and Bejing. He was raised in the port city of Quanzhou in Fujian Province where his father was a calligrapher and a worker in a book store. During the Cultural Revolution, young Guo-Qiang participated in many parades and demonstrations, but the Revolution ended when he was age 19. He then studied set design, and acquired his life-long interest in expressing in his artwork themes of current, everyday Chinese culture. Especially influential was his artist friend, Chen Zhen. Freed from government restraints, Gua-Qiang participated in the early phases of the New Wave of Art Expression in the mid 1980s, but departed for Paris and then took up residency in Japan before the movement was having much affect. In Japan, he began working... Read full biography
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Described as "arguably the most widely recognized Chinese artist of our Day", Cai Guo-Qiang lives in both New York City and Bejing. He was raised in the port city of Quanzhou in Fujian Province where his father was a calligrapher and a worker in a book store. During the Cultural Revolution, young Guo-Qiang participated in many parades and demonstrations, but the Revolution ended when he was age 19. He then studied set design, and acquired his life-long interest in expressing in his artwork themes of current, everyday Chinese culture. Especially influential was his artist friend, Chen Zhen.
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