Cai Guo-Qiang
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Biography
Person.
Cai Guo-Qiang is an artist born in Quanzhou, China, in 1957. He trained in stage design at the Shanghai Theatre Academy, lived in Japan from 1986 to 1995 and then moved to New York. His practice encompasses painting, installation, performance and moving images, with gunpowder drawings and large-scale explosion events among his best-known forms.
His work brings the controlled construction of an artwork into contact with unpredictable physical forces. Drawing on Chinese philosophical traditions and contemporary social questions, his projects often respond to the histories and cultures of particular places. The resulting images and events connect spectacle, material transformation and public space.
Reviewed 2026-09-09Selected sources
- Cai Guo-Qiang — About the artistBirth, stage-design training, Japan and New York chronology, media, gunpowder practice and site-specific approach.