Cai Guo-Qiang

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Cai Guo-Qiang

Artist

When not drawing -- and detonating -- pictures made from gunpowder or staging massive outdoor "explosion events" like the fireworks at the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Cai Guo-Qiang is busy breaking records. His 14 gunpowder pieces sold at Christie's in Hong Kong in 2007 for $9.5 million, an all-time auction high for contemporary Chinese art. He's the first Chinese artist to snag a Venice Biennale award and the first living artist to have a solo show in a state-operated Chinese museum. The seven white sedans he suspended from the ceiling at the Guggenheim in New York last year left the art world chattering about American car culture. -- by Kate Rockwood

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Cai Xiao-Chuan

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Beijing Olympics 2008 | Wang Xiaoxi - Courtesy of Cai Studio
Beijing Olympics 2008 | Xinhua
Beijing Olympics 2008 | Xinhua
Beijing Olympics 2008 | Xinhua
Beijing Olympics 2008 | Xinhua
Collaboration with Issey Miyake | Courtesy Miyake Design Studio
Collaboration with Tan Dun | Hiro Ihara - Courtesy of Cai Studio
Collaboration with Zaha Hadid | Courtesy of Cai Studio
Guggenheim Museum - Bilbao | I-Hua Lee - Courtesy of Cai Studio
Guggenheim Museum - Bilbao | I-Hua Lee - Courtesy of Cai Studio
Guggenheim Museum - Bilbao | I-Hua Lee - Courtesy of Cai Studio
Guggenheim Museum - Bilbao | I-Hua Lee - Courtesy of Cai Studio
Guggenheim Museum - Bilbao | I-Hua Lee - Courtesy of Cai Studio
Guggenheim Museum - Bilbao | I-Hua Lee - Courtesy of Cai Studio
Hiroshima City Museum | Seiji Toyonaga - Courtesy Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
Hiroshima City Museum | Cai Guo-Qiang - Courtesy of Cai Studio
Hiroshima City Museum | Cai Guo-Qiang - Courtesy of Cai Studio
Hiroshima City Museum | Cai Guo-Qiang - Courtesy of Cai Studio
Hiroshima City Museum | Cai Guo-Qiang - Courtesy of Cai Studio
Hiroshima City Museum | Cai Guo-Qiang - Courtesy of Cai Studio
Hiroshima City Museum | Cai Guo-Qiang - Courtesy of Cai Studio
In Studio 1986 | Courtesy of Cai Studio
In Studio 2004 | Courtesy of Cai Studio
In Studio 2004 | Courtesy of Cai Studio
Beijing Olympics 2008 | Courtesy of Cai Studio

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Cai Guo-Qiang (Chinese: 蔡国强; pinyin: Cài Gúoqiáng) (born in 1957, Quanzhou City, Fujian Province) is a Chinese contemporary artist and curator. -- Wikipedia (5/18/2009).