Chinese, 20th – 21st century, male.
Active in France from 1989.
Born 1954, in Xiamen (Fujian).
Installation artist.
Conceptual Art.
Huang Yongping graduated from the fine arts academy of Zhejiang in 1982. He was active in the Xiamen Dada group. He left China for Paris in ...
Japanese, 20th century, female.
Active in the USA.
Born 1933, in Tokyo.
Painter, sculptor, performance artist.
Neo-Dadaism, Fluxus.
After settling in New York, Yoko Ono initially took an active role in the
Korean, 20th century, male.
Active in Germany and the USA.
Born 20 June 1932, in Seoul; died 29 January 2006, in Miami.
Installation artist, performance artist, video artist. Multimedia.
Neo-Dadaism, Fluxus, Cyber Art.
Paik Nam June’s family fled to Hong Kong, and later to Japan at the onslaught of the Korean War. He studied the history of art and music in Tokyo and continued his musical studies at Munich University and Freiburg Conservatory. During his studies, he was introduced to electronic music by Karlheinz Stockhausen and became friends with John Cage. In ...
Japanese, 20th century, female.
Born 1932, in Osaka.
Painter, draughtswoman, installation artist, performance artist. Wall decorations.
Neo-Dadaism.
Groups: Zero, Gutai.
After graduating from art college in Kyoto, Atsuko Tanaka went on to study under the direction of Jiro Yoshihara. Already a member of the
(b Xiamen, Feb 19, 1954. d Ivry-sur-Seine, Oct 19, 2019).
Chinese installation artist, active also in France. Huang Yong Ping studied at the Zhejiang Fine Arts Academy (now the China Academy of Art) in Hangzhou, graduating in 1982. In 1986 he became one of the founders of Xiamen Dada, a group of artists famous for having burned their paintings after an exhibition (e.g. Event, 1986). This performance event and the group’s other activities were part of a broader national trend—known as the 1985 New Wave Movement—when a younger generation of artists began to experiment with all manner of styles and influences from outside China. Inspired by Chan Buddhism, Dadaism, John Cage, and Joseph Beuys’s works, Huang Yong Ping stood out for his conceptual approach and professed wariness toward art as a set value and a predefined concept. This philosophy led him to notably use chance and divination methods in his creation processes (e.g. Roulette Wheel: Four Paintings Created According to Random Instructions...
