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Eric Firestone Gallery

East Hampton / New York

Tseng Kwong Chi

(American, 1950–1990)

jean-michel basquiat with coffee cup by tseng kwong chi

Tseng Kwong Chi

Jean-Michel Basquiat with Coffee Cup, 1987

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jean-michel basquiat, great jones street, new york (with boxes) by tseng kwong chi

Tseng Kwong Chi

Jean-Michel Basquiat, Great Jones Street, New York (with boxes), 1987

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keith haring, pop shop tokyo by tseng kwong chi

Tseng Kwong Chi

Keith Haring, Pop Shop Tokyo, 1988

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keith haring, bad boy, bordeaux, france by tseng kwong chi

Tseng Kwong Chi

Keith Haring, Bad Boy, Bordeaux, France, 1985

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keith haring, brooklyn academy of music, new york by tseng kwong chi

Tseng Kwong Chi

Keith Haring, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York, 1985

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haring pop shop window new york by tseng kwong chi

Tseng Kwong Chi

Haring Pop Shop Window New York, 1986

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east meets west manifesto by tseng kwong chi

Tseng Kwong Chi

East Meets West Manifesto, 1983

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Biography

Timeline

1950
Born in Hong Kong
1966
Left Hong Kong with family
1974
Graduated from L’École Superior d’Arts Graphiques at L’Academie Julien, Paris, France
1979
Settled in New York, NY
1990
Died in New York, NY

Exhibitions

2010
Tseng Kwong Chi: BODY PAINTING with Keith Haring and Bill T. Jones, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
2008
Tseng Kwong Chi: Self Portraits, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
Against All Odds: Kieth Haring in the Rubell Family Collection, Palm Springs Art Museum, USA
Brasil: desFocos, Centro Cultural do Banco do Brasil/Rio, Pao das Artes, Sao Paulo, Brazil
From Street to Studio, Brattleboro Museum, Brattleboro, USA
2007
Tseng Kwong Chi: Ambiguous Ambassador, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, USA (solo)
The Downtown Show: The New York Art Scene, 1974 - 84, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, USA; The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, USA; The Austin Museum of Art, Austin, USA
2005 - 2006
Tseng Kwong Chi: East Meets West, Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan, Italy (solo)
2005
Tseng Kwong Chi: Ambiguous Ambassador, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (solo)
East Village USA, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA
2004
Techniques of the Visible, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai Biennale, China
Camera/Action, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, USA
Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self, International Center of Photography, New York, USA
Portrait of the Art World: A Century of ARTnews Photographs, The New York Historical Society, New York, USA; National Portrait Gallery at the S. Dillon Ripley Center, International Gallery, Washington, D.C.; Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, USA; Museum of New Mexico, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, USA (catalogue)
2002
Archi-Tourism, Buell Center of American Architecture, Columbia University, New York, USA
Tseng Kwong Chi: A Retrospective, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, USA (catalogue) (solo)
Issues of Identity in Recent American Art, Roland Gibson Art Gallery, SUNY Potsdam, NY; University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, USA; The Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA; Ben Shahn Galleries, William Paterson University, Wayne, USA; Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, USA (catalogue)
1999 - 2001
Tseng Kwong Chi: Citizen of the World, traveled to Johnson County Community College Gallery of Art, Overland Park, USA; Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, USA; J. Wayne Stark University Center Galleries, Texas A & M University, College Station, USA (solo)
1998 - 1999
Tseng Kwong Chi: The Expedition, Art Gallery of Windsor, Ontario, Canada (solo)
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, USA
The Gang's All Here, New York in the Eighties, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, USA
East Meets West, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Tseng Kwong Chi, Citizen of the World, Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona, Tucson, USA (solo)
Crossing the Frontier: Photographs of the Developing West, 1849 to the Present, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA

Literature

2005
Tseng Kwong Chi, Ambiguous Ambassador, monograph with essays by Dan Cameron, Richard Martin and Grady T. Turner, Nazraeli Press/JGS, 2005. Available at www.strandbooks.com or www.nazraelipress.com. Contact Nazraeli Press directly by calling 520-798-1530.
Architourism, Ed. by Joan Ockman and Salomon Frausto, Columbia Buell Center/Prestel, 2005,
2004
Shanghai Biennale: Techniques of the Visible, exhibition catalogue, 2004, pp. 76-79.
2002
A Retrospective, Improbable Pilgrim: The Photographs of Tseng Kwong Chi, essay by Amy Ingrid
1997
Art in America, article by Grady T. Turner, "The Accidental Ambassador,” March 1997.
1995
An American Century of Photography, The Hallmark Collection, text by Keith Davis, Hallmark Cards, Inc. in association with Harry N. Abrams, Inc., pp. 314-45, 353, 1995.
1992
Tseng Kwong Chi: The Expeditionary Works, essay by Barry Blinderman, Houston Center for
1990
Tseng Kwong Chi, foreword by Richard Martin, Art Random, Kyoto Shoin, 1990.
1986
Arts Magazine, article by Richard Martin, “The Expeditionary Photographs of Tseng Kwong Chi,” September 1986.
1984
Art in Transit, New York Subway Drawings by Keith Haring, introduction by Henry Geldzahler and text by Keith Haring, Harmony Books, Crown Publishers, 1984.
English (US)

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