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Tseng Kwong Chi

(American, 1950–1990)

Tseng Kwong Chi

Keith Haring photograph by Tseng Kwong Chi (Keith Haring Tseng Kwong Chi), 1989

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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
1995: Longing and Belonging: From the Faraway Nearby, Inaugural exhibition at SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, USA (catalogue)
1994 - 1996: ASIA/AMERICA: Identities in Contemporary Asian American Art, Asia Society Galleries, New York, USA
1993: Tseng Kwong Chi: Polaroids, Portraits, Expeditions, Alternative Museum, New York, USA
Tseng Kwong Chi: Polaroids, Portraits, Expeditions, Alternative Museum, New York, USA (solo)
1992: Tseng Kwong Chi: The Expeditionary Works, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, USA (catalogue) (solo)
1987: Portrayals, International Center of Photography, New York, USA
1985: 1985 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
1984: 5/5 Figuration Libre France/USA, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
East Meets West: American Monuments Series, C.E.P.A. Gallery Buffalo, New York, USA
Art in Transit, a collaboration with Keith Haring, Semaphore Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
1980: First Invitational, Club 57, New York, 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.

Tseng Kwong Chi

(American, 1950–1990)

Tseng Kwong Chi

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Literature

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