Huang Kui 黄奎
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[edit] Date & Place of Birth
Huang was born in 1977 in Sichuan Province.
[edit] Education & Development
Huang graduated from the oil painting department at Sichuan Academy of Fine Arts in 1996. He told the Shanghai Daily he applied to the academy because "we were told that the artists there could make big money." That didn't happen. He and his classmates had to find real jobs to make a living. Huang became an art teacher at a private school in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, earning 20,000 yuan (US$2,926) a year. The tranquil southern China town couldn't satisfy his ambitions or give him space to express his defiance and individuality, he explained, and in 2000 he headed to Shanghai where he knew no one. He first worked as a draftsman at an advertising company, and he says that "trained [his] social skills." Gradually he joined the art community, producing initially startling works, including performance art. In one he stood naked in a bulletproof glass case, drinking and throwing bottles against the glass.
[edit] Art
[edit] Gallery Affiliations
Huang is represented by ShanghART Gallery in Shanghai.
For a selection of Huang's resale records, click here.
[edit] Exhibitions
Huang's recent exhibitions include "They Still Look Beautiful," a solo exhibition at Shanghai's ShanghArt Gallery in 2009; "Does God Exist?", a performance piece presented at the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007; "Practice: a Perspective from Chinese Video Art", along side Song Dong and Qiu Zhijie at the Walsh Gallery in Chicago in 2008.[2][3][4]
For Huang's exhibition history, click here.
