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1921 Peking (Beijing), China - 2013 Nyon, Switzerland. Known for: Non objective and abstract landscape painting, sculpture.
Zao (Zhao) Wou Ki combines Oriental landscape abstraction with French influence. He was born in Beijing on February 13, 1921, and from the age of ten, Zao drew and painted with great freedom. He... Read full biography
Zao (Zhao) Wou Ki combines Oriental landscape abstraction with French influence. He was born in Beijing on February 13, 1921, and from the age of ten, Zao drew and painted with great freedom. He learned from his grandfather that calligraphy is an art when it transmits an emotion to the person... Read full biography
Zao (Zhao) Wou Ki combines Oriental landscape abstraction with French influence. He was born in Beijing on February 13, 1921, and from the age of ten, Zao drew and painted with great freedom. He learned from his grandfather that calligraphy is an art when it transmits an emotion to the person looking at it. At age fourteen he enrolled at the School of Fine Arts in Hangzhou, where he remained for six years. He studied and then taught at the Hongchow National Academy of Fine Arts. In 1942, he... Read full biography
Zao (Zhao) Wou Ki combines Oriental landscape abstraction with French influence. He was born in Beijing on February 13, 1921, and from the age of ten, Zao drew and painted with great freedom. He learned from his grandfather that calligraphy is an art when it transmits an emotion to the person looking at it. At age fourteen he enrolled at the School of Fine Arts in Hangzhou, where he remained for six years. He studied and then taught at the Hongchow National Academy of Fine Arts. In 1942, he organized an exhibition of works by his teacher, Wu Dayu, along with some of his own. In 1948, he moved to Paris where he has lived and worked ever since, although he has exhibited in New York City. He attended the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and... Read full biography
Zao (Zhao) Wou Ki combines Oriental landscape abstraction with French influence. He was born in Beijing on February 13, 1921, and from the age of ten, Zao drew and painted with great freedom. He learned from his grandfather that calligraphy is an art when it transmits an emotion to the person looking at it. At age fourteen he enrolled at the School of Fine Arts in Hangzhou, where he remained for six years. He studied and then taught at the Hongchow National Academy of Fine Arts. In 1942, he organized an exhibition of works by his teacher, Wu Dayu, along with some of his own. In 1948, he moved to Paris where he has lived and worked ever since, although he has exhibited in New York City. He attended the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and lived at Rue du Moulin Vert nearby Alberto Giacometti's studio. Making the acquaintance of Hans Hartung, Nicolas de Staël, Pierre So... Read full biography
Wou-Ki Zao - Artist Info
About Wou-Ki Zao: Museums & Collections
Museums & Collections (24)
All MuseumsBibliotheque Nationale de France, BNF
Quai François-Mauriac
Paris, FranceCantor Arts Center, Stanford
Lomita Drive/Museum Way
Stanford University
Palo Alto, CA 94305Carnegie Museum of Art
4400 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-4080Cincinnati Art Museum
953 Eden Park Drive
Cincinnati, OH 45202Clark Atlanta University Art Museum
223 James P. Brawley Dr Sw
Trevor Arnett Hall, 2nd Floor
Atlanta, GA 30314Community Fine Arts Center
400 C Street
Rock Springs, WY 82901Finch College Museum of Art
New York City, NYFogg Art Museum: Harvard University Art Museums
Harvard University
32 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Smithsonian Institution: 7th Street & Independence Ave. Sw
Mail To: Po Box 37012/Hmsg Mrc 350
Washington, DC 20013-7012Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
1001 Bissonnet
Po Box 6826
Houston, TX 77005Museum of Modern Art, New York
11 West 53rd Street
New York City, NY 10019Neuberger Museum of Art
Suny, Purchase College
735 Anderson Hill Road
Purchase, NY 10577-1400Oklahoma City Museum of Art, OKCMOA
415 Couch Drive
Oklahoma City, OK 73102Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University
415 South Street
P.O. Box 9110-Mail Stop 069
Waltham, MA 02454-9110San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SFMOMA
151 Third Street
San Francisco, CA 94103Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue
New York City, NY 10128Tate Modern/Tate Gallery, London
Bankside
Se1 9Tg
London, United KingdomThe Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
258 Main Street
Ridgefield, CT 06877Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A)
Cromwell Road
South Kensington
London, United KingdomVirginia Museum of Fine Arts
200 North Boulevard
Richmond, VA 23220-4007Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
600 Main Street
Hartford, CT 06103-2990Walker Art Center
1750 Hennepin Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55403Yale University Art Gallery
1111 Chapel Street
Box 208271
New Haven, CT 06520-8271