Paul Chan

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Paul Chan (2013)

Paul Chan (born April 12, 1973 in Hong Kong ) is a Chinese - American painter , video and installation artist .

life and work

Paul Chan grew up in Omaha , Nebraska . He studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago until 1996 . In 2002 he received his Masters from Bard College . He is a political activist and artist. Paul Chan founded Badlands Unlimited book publisher in 2010, which publishes print products and e-books.

In 2003 Chan became known with the film Happiness (Finally) After 35,000 Years of Civilization (after Henry Darger and Charles Fourier ). In 2007 he directed the theater project Waiting for Godot in New Orleans in a district of New Orleans badly damaged by Hurricane Katrina . The video Sade for Sade's sake (2009) was exhibited at the 2009 Venice Biennale . The work Volumes (2012) consists of 1005 painted book covers. Parts of it were shown at dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel in 2012 and in Schaulager Basel in 2014 .

Paul Chan received the Hugo Boss Prize in 2014 . This was followed in 2015 by the exhibition Nonprojections for New Lovers at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Encyclopedia Britannica, Debra N. Mancoff Paul Chan accessed on March 4, 2019 (English)
  2. ↑ Guggenheim Paul Chan accessed on March 4, 2019 (English)
  3. ↑ Museum of Modern Art Happiness (Finally) After 35,000 Years of Civilization, accessed on March 4, 2019.
  4. ^ Paul Chan, et al .: A Country Road - A Tree - Evening. A field guide . Badlands Unlimited, New York 2010.
  5. ↑ Holland Cotter: A Broken City. A tree. Evening. In: The New York Times . December 2, 2007, accessed January 29, 2020 .
  6. ↑ MoMa Paul Chan, Sade for Sade's sake accessed on March 4, 2019 (English)
  7. ↑ dOCUMENTA (13). The accompanying book / The Guidebook. Catalog 3/3., Page 418, 2012, ISBN 978-3-7757-2954-3
  8. ↑ Jason Farago: Reviews Paul Chan: Schaulager, Basel, Switzerland. In: Frieze . August 13, 2014, accessed on January 29, 2020 (English, print edition no.165).
  9. ↑ dazed digital artist Paul Chan on breaking new ground accessed on March 4, 2019 (English)
personal data
SURNAME Chan, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese-American painter, video and installation artist
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Hong Kong