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CHEN, WENLING
1969 Born in Quanzhou, Fujian, China
1991 Graduated from Xiamen Academy of Art and Design
1994 Completed study in Sculpture Dept., Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
Present Works and live in Beijing
Solo Exhibitions
2008 Un Monde presque Ideal, Galerie Lansar, Geneva, Switzerland
2006 Chen Wenling’s Sculpture solo exhibition, Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
Beneath Above, BANG-Beijing Art Now Gellery, Beijing, China
2004 Happy Life, Chinese European Art Center, Xiamen, China
Group Exhibitions
The Institute for Contemporary Art
The National and International Studio Program 1995-1996
Asian Cultural Council Grant, New York
Fondation Cartier pour l' art contemporain, Paris, 1993
Awards:
CalArts/Alpert Award in the Arts, USA, 2001
The Venice Biennial International Prize-Golden Lion, Italy, 1999
Oribe Awards, Gifu, Japan, 1997
Benesse Prize of Transculture Exhibition, 46th Venice Biennial, Italy, 1995
Japan Cultural Design Prize, Tokyo, Japan, 1995
International Association of Art Critics United States Section, Best Monograph Show and Best Installation in a Museum for Inopportune, Paris, France, 2005
Country
China
Artistic Movements
Contemporary Art
Related Artworks
Cai Guo-Qiang was born in 1957 in Quanzhou City, Fujian Province, China. The son of a historian and painter, Cai was trained in stage design at the Shanghai Drama Institute from 1981 to 1985 and his work has, since the outset, been scholarly and often politically charged. Having accomplished himself across a variety of media, Cai initially began working with gunpowder to foster spontaneity and confront the suppression that he felt from the controlled artistic tradition and social climate in China at the time. While living in Japan from 1986 to 1995, Cai explored the properties of gunpowder in his drawings, an inquiry that eventually led to his experimentation with explosives on a massive scale, and the development of his signature explosion events, exemplified in his series, Projects for Extraterrestrials. These explosion projects, both wildly poetic and ambitious at their core, aim to establish an exchange between viewers and the larger universe around them.
Cai quickly achieved international prominence during his tenure in Japan and his work was shown widely around the world. His approach draws on a wide variety of symbols, narratives, traditions and materials such as feng shui, Chinese medicine, dragons, roller coasters, computers, vending machines and gunpowder. He has been selected as a finalist for the 1996 Hugo Boss Prize and been merited with awards such as The 48th Venice Biennial International Golden Lion Prize and the 2001 CalArts/Alpert Award in the Arts. He has also won awards for Best Exhibition and Best Installation from the International Curators Association.
Among many of the artist's solo exhibitions and projects are the notable Cai Guo-Qiang on the Roof: Transparent Monument, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2006; curating the first China Pavilion at the 51st Venice Biennale, 2005; Tornado: Explosion Project for the Festival of China, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C., 2005; Cai Guo-Qiang: Inopportune, Mass MoCA, North Adams, 2005; Cai Guo-Qiang: Traveler, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, and Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 2004; Organizing and curating BMoCA: Bunker Museum of Contemporary Art, Kinmen, Taiwan, 2004; Light Cycle: Explosion Project for Central Park, New York, 2003; Ye Gong Hao Long: Explosion Project for Tate Modern, Tate Modern, London, 2003, Transient Rainbow, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2002; Cai Guo-Qiang, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, 2002; APEC Cityscape Fireworks Show, Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation, Shanghai, 2001; Cai Guo-Qiang: An Arbitrary History, Musee d'art Contemporain Lyon, France, 2001; Cultural Melting Bath: Projects for the 20th Century, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York, 1997; Flying Dragon in the Heavens, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humblebaek, Denmark, 1997; The Earth Has Its Black Hole Too, Hiroshima, Japan, 1994; and Project to Extend the Great Wall of China by 10,000 Meters, Jiayuguan City, China, 1993.
Through years of artistic practice, Cai has formulated collaborative relationships with specialists and experts from various disciplines, including scientists, doctors, feng shui masters, designers, architects, choreographers, filmmakers and composers, such as Issey Miyake, Rafael Vinoly, Zaha Hadid, Tan Dun and Tsai Ming-liang among others. He is repeatedly listed among the UK journal ArtReview's Power 100.
Cai is currently a core member of the creative team and the director of visual and special effects of the opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics. He is also preparing for his large-scale retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum in New York with subsequent international venues.
Solo Exhibitions and Projects
2008
Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe, Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
2007
Light Passage, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2006
Concept and Visual Director, Wind Shadow, collaboration with Cloud Gate Dance Theater of Taiwan, Taipei, Taiwan
Head On, Deutsche Giggenheim, Berlin, Germany (cat.)
Curator: DMoCA, Echigo-Tsumari Triennial, Japan
Long Scroll, National Gallery of Canada, Shawinigan, Quebec, Canada (cat.)
Curator of Long March: Chinese Contemporary Art Education Panel, Yan'an, China
Transparent Monument, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA (cat.)
Stage, Galleria Continua, Colle di Val d'elsa, Tuscany. Italy
Inopportune, SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
2005 Tornado: Explosion Project for the Festival of China, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington DC
Curator of UMoCA exhibition by Jennifer Wen Ma: Aeolian Garden, Arte all'Arte, Arte Continua, Colla di Val d'Elsa, Italy
Life Beneath the Shadow, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK (cat.).
Paradise, The Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland (cat.)
Curator of Virgin Garden: Emersion, China Pavilion, 51st Biennale Di Venezia, Venice, Italy (cat.)
Black Rainbow, Institut Valencia d'rt Modern, Valencia, Spain (cat.)
On Black Fireworks, Institut Valencia d'rt Modern, Valencia, Spain (cat.)
2004
Curated BMoCA: Bunker Museum of Contemporary Art, Kinmen, Taiwan
Cai Guo-Qiang: Traveler, Freer & Sackler and Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC, USA
Cai Guo-Qiang: Inopportune, MASS MoCA, North Adam, USA
2003
Man, Eagle and Eye in the Sky: Kite Project for Siwa, Egypt, Siwa, Egypt (video)
Light Cycle: Explosion Project for Central Park, Creative Time, New York, USA (video)
Explosion Event: Light Cycle Over Central Park, Asia Society and Museum, New York, USA (cat.)
Ye Gong Hao Long: Explosion Project for Tate Modern, Tate Modern, London, UK (video)
Cai Guo-Qiang: An Arbitrary History, S.M.A.K. Gent, Belgium.
Cai Guo-Qiang: For Your Pleasure Matrix 204, University of California Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, USA.
Pause: DMoCA Inaugural Exhibition with Kiki Smith, Niigata, Japan (cat.)
2002
Cai Guo-Qiang: Ethereal Flowers, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea Trento, Trento, Italy (cat.)
Transient Rainbow, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (video)
Cai Guo-Qiang's CHADO Pavilion-Homage to Tenshin Okakura, Hakone Open Air Museum, Hakone, Japan (cat.)
Cai Guo-Qiang, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China (cat.)
2001
An Arbitrary History, Musee d'art Contemporain Lyon, Lyon, France (cat.)
Artistic Direction for APEC Cityscape Fireworks, Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation, Shanghai, China (video)
UMoCA, Arte all' Arte, Arte Continua, Colla di Val d'Elsa, Italy (cat.)
Performing Chinese Ink Painting, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Impression Oil Drawings, Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2000
Ascending a Staircase. 69th Regiment Armory, New York, USA (video)
Project for Projects. Fondation Cartier pour l' art Contemporain, Paris, France (cat.)
1999
I Am the Y2K Bug, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria (cat.)
1998
No Construction, No Destruction: Bombing the Taiwan Museum of Art, Taiwan Museum of Art, Taichung, Taiwan (cat., video, CD-ROM)
Daydreaming, Cherng Piin Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan (cat.)
1997
Cultural Melting Bath: Projects for the 20th Century, Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA (cat.)
Flying Dragon in the Heavens, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humblebaek, Denmark (cat., video)
1996
The Century with Mushroom Clouds - Projects for the 20th Century, Nevada, Nuclear Test Site,
Salt Lake, New York, USA
1994
Chaos, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (cat.)
Concerning Flame, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (cat.)
The Horizon from the Pan-Pacific, Iwaki, Fukushima, Japan (brochure and video)
From the Pan-Pacific, Iwaki City Art Museum, Fukushima, Japan (cat.)
Calendar of Life, Gallery APA, Nagoya, Japan (cat.)
1993
Project to Extend the Great Wall of China by 10,000 Meters, Jiayuguan City, China (book)
Long Mai (The Dragon Meridian), P3 art and environment, Tokyo, Japan (brochure)
1992
Wailing Wall-From the Engine of Four Hundred Cars, IBM Kawasaki City Galley, Kawasaki,
Japan (cat.)
1991
Primeval Fireball: The Project for Projects, P3 art and environment, Tokyo, Japan (cat.)
1990
Works 1988/89, Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka, Japan (brochure)
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