Huang Yong Ping - Artist Info

About Huang Yong Ping

Name variants

Yong Ping Huang, Yongping Huang
  • Biography

    Huang Yong Ping (Chinese: ???; born 1954) is a French contemporary artist and one of the most famous Chinese Avant-garde artists. Born in Xiamen, he was recognized as the most controversial and provocative artist of the Chinese art scene in the 1980s.

    Huang was one of the first artists to consider that art was a strategy. He was a self-taught student educating himself under three well-known men. Joseph Beuys well known German artist and art theorist, John Cage an American music theorist and philosopher, and Marcel Duchamp a French artist that's associated with Dadaist and Surrealist. He then graduated in 1982 from art school in Hangzhou.

    In 1986 he formed Xiamen Dada. Xiamen Dada is a group formed by Huang Yong Ping with Zha ...

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