Tseng Kwong ChiBorn in Hong Kong, 1950. Left Hong Kong with family in 1966. Educated in Hong Kong, Vancouver, British Columbia, Montreal, Canada, and Paris, France. Settled in New York City, New York 1979. Died in New York City, 1990.
EDUCATION L' École Superior d’Arts Graphiques at the L’Academie Julien, Paris, France; Sir George Williams University, Montreal, Canada; University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2005-06 “Tseng Kwong Chi: East Meets West”, Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan, Italy 2005 “Tseng Kwong Chi: Ambiguous Ambassador”, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2004 “Tseng Kwong Chi: Ambiguous Ambassador”, Hanart Gallery, Hong Kong 2003 "Tseng Kwong Chi: East Meets West", Lee Ka-Sing Gallery, Toronto, Canada 2002 "Tseng Kwong Chi: Ambiguous Ambassador", Chambers Fine Art, New York, NY "Tseng Kwong Chi: A Retrospective " Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA (catalogue) "Tseng Kwong Chi," SK Josefsberg Studio, Portland, OR "In America: Vintage Prints, 1979-1987," Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY 2001 "Costumes at the Met," Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, OR 2000 "East Meets West," Carol Ehlers, Chicago, IL 1999-01 "Tseng Kwong Chi: Citizen of the World," organized by the Center for CreativePhotography, travelingexhibition continues on to Johnson County Community College Gallery of Art, Overland Park, KS; Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL; J. Wayne Stark University Center Galleries, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX 1998-99 "Tseng Kwong Chi: The Expedition," Art Gallery of Windsor, Ontario, Canada 1997 "Tseng Kwong Chi, Citizen of the World," Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2006-07 "The Grand Canyon: From Dream to Icon," Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ "The Jean-Michel Basquiat Show," Le Mostre della Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy “The Downtown Show: The New York Art Scene, 1974 - 84,” curated by Carlo McCormick, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, NY; The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA; The Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX 2006 "Smoke and Mirrors: Deception in Contemporary Art," The University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL "Personal Perspectives: Aspects of American Photography," de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA “Keith Haring: Journey of the Radiant Baby”, curated by Ron Roth, Reading Museum, Reading, PA 2005 “The Keith Haring Show,” Le Mostre della Triennale di Milano, Milan Italy “Pop Shop Tokyo Photographs,” published by George Mulder Fine Art and Malca Fine Art, Suzanne Biederberg Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland and Galerie Raab, Berlin, Germany “L’art a la Plage: Keith Haring,” (Pop Shop Tokyo photographs), Galerie Enrico Navarra in cooperation with Galerie Jerome de Noirmont and George Mulder Fine Art, St. Tropez, France “Artists Interrogate: Race and Identity,” Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI “Site Seeing: Photographic Excursions in Tourism,” from the Collections of the George Eastman House, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach. 2004-05 “East Village USA,” curated by Dan Cameron, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY “The Andy Warhol Show,” Le Mostre della Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy 2004 “Techniques of the Visible,” Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai Biennale, China “Camera/Action”, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, IL 2003-04 "Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self," curated by Coco Fusco and Brian Wallis, International Center of Photography, New York, NY 2003 "Commodification of Buddhism," The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY 2002 "Archi-Tourism," Buell Center of American Architecture, Columbia University, New York, NY "Where is Elvis?" Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, NY "Uniforms in Fact and Fantasy," American Textile History Museum, Lowell, MA "Visualizing the Blues: Images of the American South 1862-1999," Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX 2001-02 "Issues of Identity in Recent American Art," Roland Gibson Art Gallery, SUNY Potsdam, NY; University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL; The Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN; Ben Shahn Galleries, William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ; Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA (catalogue) 2000 "Recent Acquisitions," The Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN 1999 "Your I," Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY "Looking Into the Collection: Celebrity," Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC The Bronx Museum for the Arts, Bronx, NY Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (complete set of large-format modern prints of the East-West Expeditionary self-portraits series) Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA Dartmouth University Art Museum, NH Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan The George Eastman House, NY The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY The Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, KS The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA Musee de l'Elysee, Lausanne, Switzerland Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX The New School for Social Research, New York, NY The New York Public Library, New York, NY The Queens Museum, New York, NY San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA The Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS University of Connecticut, William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, CT The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN Wellesley College of Art, CT
SELECTED PRIVATE / CORPORATE COLLECTIONS The Alturas Collection, Boston MA Dow Jones, New York, NY The Equitable Corporation, New York, NY Goldman & Sachs Corporate Collection, New York, NY Hallmark Photographic Collection, Kansas City, MO The Keith Haring Foundation, New York, NY HBO, New York, NY La Salle Bank, Chicago, IL Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI Minnesota Regional Sleep Disorders Center, University of Minnesota MN The Refco Collection of Modern Photography, Chicago, IL The Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL The West Collection at SEI, PA The Sprint Collection, Overland Park, KS
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