Cai Guo-Qiang

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Cai Guo-Qiang is a contemporary Chinese artist internationally recognized for his large-scale gunpowder drawings, explosion events, and installations that explore cultural, historical, and political themes.

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Cai Guo-Qiang canonical 2
Cai Guo-Qiang: Sky Ladder 1
Cai Guo-Qiang: The Spirit of Painting 1

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instanceOf conceptual artist
contemporary artist
human
installation artist
performance artist
artisticTheme Chinese history
cosmology
cultural identity
globalization
nature and environment
political history
war and violence
awardReceived Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement
surface form: Golden Lion for Best Artist at the Venice Biennale

Hiroshima Art Prize
Praemium Imperiale
birthDate 1957-12-08
birthPlace China
Fujian
Quanzhou
countryOfCitizenship China
curated China Pavilion at the 48th Venice Biennale
documentaryDirector Kevin Macdonald
documentaryReleasedOn Netflix
educatedAt Shanghai Theatre Academy
ethnicGroup Han Chinese
familyName Cai
fieldOfWork contemporary art
explosion event
gunpowder drawing
installation art
performance art
givenName Guo-Qiang
hasExhibitedAt Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art
Carnegie International
Deutsche Guggenheim
Doha Fireworks Festival projects
Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale
Fondazione Prada
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Gwangju Biennale
Istanbul Biennial
Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Reina Sofía Museum
surface form: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía

Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Museum of Modern Art
National Art Museum of China
National Gallery of Victoria
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
Peabody Essex Museum
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Power Station of Art, Shanghai
Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
Queens Museum
surface form: Queens Museum of Art

Rockbund Art Museum
San Diego Museum of Art
Setouchi Triennale art festival
surface form: Setouchi Triennale

Shanghai Biennale
Singapore Art Museum
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Biennale of Sydney
surface form: Sydney Biennale

São Paulo Art Biennial
surface form: São Paulo Biennial

Tate Modern
Ullens Center for Contemporary Art
Venice Biennale
Yokohama Triennale
hasExplosiveEvent explosion event at the 2008 Beijing Olympics opening ceremony
explosion event at the Guggenheim Museum
explosion event at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
explosion event in Doha
explosion event in Hiroshima
explosion event in New York Harbor
explosion event in Valencia
explosion event on the Great Wall of China
explosion event over the Huangpu River in Shanghai
hasPublication Cai Guo-Qiang: Black Fireworks
Cai Guo-Qiang: Explosion Project
Cai Guo-Qiang: Fallen Blossoms
Cai Guo-Qiang: Falling Back to Earth
Cai Guo-Qiang: Fireworks from the Sky
Cai Guo-Qiang: Gunpowder Art
Cai Guo-Qiang: Head On
Cai Guo-Qiang: Homeland
Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe
Cai Guo-Qiang: Inopportune
Cai Guo-Qiang: Odyssey
Cai Guo-Qiang: Peasant Da Vincis and Other Stories
surface form: Cai Guo-Qiang: Peasant Da Vincis

Cai Guo-Qiang: Peasant Da Vincis and Other Stories
Cai Guo-Qiang: Projects for Extraterrestrials
Cai Guo-Qiang: Saraab
Cai Guo-Qiang self-linksurface differs
surface form: Cai Guo-Qiang: Sky Ladder

Cai Guo-Qiang: Explosion Project
surface form: Cai Guo-Qiang: The Century with Mushroom Clouds

Cai Guo-Qiang: The Dragon’s Gift
Cai Guo-Qiang: The Ninth Wave
Cai Guo-Qiang self-linksurface differs
surface form: Cai Guo-Qiang: The Spirit of Painting

Cai Guo-Qiang: The Transient Landscape
Cai Guo-Qiang: The Unmanned Nature
Cai Guo-Qiang: Time Flies
Cai Guo-Qiang: Universe of Fireworks
Cai Guo-Qiang: Voyage to the Moon
Cai Guo-Qiang: When the Sky Blooms with Fire
Cai Guo-Qiang: Works 1985–2010
Cai Guo-Qiang: Works 1985–2010
surface form: Cai Guo-Qiang: Works 2010–2020

Cai Guo-Qiang: Explosion Project
surface form: Cai Guo-Qiang: World of Explosion

Cai Guo-Qiang: Writing with Gunpowder
Cai Guo-Qiang: Yuz Museum Retrospective
Cai Guo-Qiang: Zai Zai Zai
Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang
hasTechnique collaborative performance
gunpowder drawing on paper
indoor explosion event
large-scale fireworks display
outdoor explosion event
site-specific installation
influencedBy Chinese calligraphy
Chinese martial arts films
Taoism
surface form: Daoism

Japanese contemporary art
socialist realism
surface form: Socialist Realism

Western contemporary art
languageSpoken English
Japanese
Mandarin Chinese
livedIn Japan
New York City
Tokyo
movement contemporary art
postmodern art
name Cai Guo-Qiang self-link
nativeName Cai Guo-Qiang self-linksurface differs
surface form: 蔡國強
notableFor explosion events
fireworks-based artworks
large-scale gunpowder drawings
large-scale installations
notableWork Black Rainbow
Falling Back to Earth
Head On
Inopportune: Stage One
Project to Extend the Great Wall of China by 10,000 Meters
Sky Ladder
The Ninth Wave
occupation artist
artistic director
curator
representedBy Benesse Art Site Naoshima
Deutsche Guggenheim
Faurschou Foundation
Fondazione Prada
Galerie Urs Meile
Galleria Continua
Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art
Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
National Gallery of Victoria
Pace Gallery
Peabody Essex Museum
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Power Station of Art, Shanghai
surface form: Power Station of Art

Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
Queens Museum
surface form: Queens Museum of Art

Rockbund Art Museum
San Diego Museum of Art
Singapore Art Museum
Ullens Center for Contemporary Art
Yuz Museum
residence New York City
United States of America
surface form: United States
role director of visual and special effects for the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics
subjectOf documentary film Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang
usesMaterial canvas
explosives
fireworks
found objects
gunpowder
paper
website https://caiguoqiang.com

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The Phillips Collection hasWorkBy Cai Guo-Qiang
Cai Guo-Qiang name Cai Guo-Qiang self-link
Cai Guo-Qiang nativeName Cai Guo-Qiang self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: 蔡國強
Cai Guo-Qiang hasPublication Cai Guo-Qiang self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Cai Guo-Qiang: Sky Ladder
Cai Guo-Qiang hasPublication Cai Guo-Qiang self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Cai Guo-Qiang: The Spirit of Painting