Cai Guo-Qiang1957-

Works basically using fireworks and creates paintings or does performance. He also works with installations, based on his background in Chinese or Asian culture . Cai also works as curators for various exhibitions.

Biography

1957 born in Quanzhou city, Fujian Province, China
1985 finished Shanghai Drama Institute
1986 moved to Japan 1995 moved to New York, based on New York

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Solo Exhibitions

2015 Horai/Panglai Echigo Tsumari Art Triennale 2015 / Kinare / Niigata
Art Island, Art Front Gallery
Here and There back again, Yokohama Museum of Art / Kanagawa
2014 The Ninth Wave, Pawer Station of Art, Shanghai / China
2013 Falling Back to Earth, Queensland Art Museum / Brisbane, Australia
2012 Sky Ladder Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles
2011 Cai Guo-Qiang: saraab Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha
2010 Cai Guo-Qiang: Head on, Singapore National Museum / Singapore
2008 I want to Believe Solommon Guggenheim Museum New York, USA
2003 Traveler-Reflection Smithonian Institute, Washington, USA
2000 Fondation Cartier d'art contemporain

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Group Exhibitions

2015 Parasophia: Kyoto International Festival of Contemporary Art, Kyoto / Japan
2014 Guess What? Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima
2005 curating the first China Pavilion at the 51st Venice Biennale
2004 Organizing and curating BMoca: Bunker Museum of Contemporary Art / Kinmen, Taiwan

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Awards

2001 CalArts/ Alpert Award in the Arts
The 48th Venice Biennial International Golden Lion Prize
1996 finalist for the Hugo Boss Prize

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Collection / Public Art

Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain
Museum of Contemporary Art (MOT) Tokyo
Setagaya Museum of Art, Tokyo
Fukuoka Asian Museum, Fukuoka
Museum of Modern Art, Saitama
Iwaki City Museum of Art

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