Artist's Page:Gu Wenda
Gu Wenda was born in Shanghai, China in 1955. He graduated from National Academy of Arts with MFA degree in 1982, and currently resides in New York, USA.
His currently works on his ongoing project United Nation that began in 1993. The completed progects are as follows:
2002 "United Nations--Way of Tea" Asia Society and Museum, New York, NY
2002 "United Nations--Korean Monument" National Gallery of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Republic of Korea
2000 Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China
1999 "United Nations: Power of Word," a site specific installation and performance.Taiwan Museum of Art, Taizhong, Taiwan
1998 "United Nations--Vancouver" a site specific installation and performanceaUBC Gallery Vancouver, Canada
1997 "United Nations - Africa Monument: The Praying Wall", a site specific installation and performance with Nomsa Manaka, 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, South Africa.
1997 "United Nations - Hong Kong Monument: The historical clash", a site specific installation and a performance "blackness", Han Art Gallaery, Hong Kong.
1997 "United Nations - Hong Kong Monument: The historical clash", a site specific installation and a performance "Blackness", Han Art Gallaery, Taiwan.
1996 "United Nations - USA Monument 2: dreamerica, a site specific installation, Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York, Songe Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea.
1996 "United Nations - Britain Monument: The Maze", a site specific installation, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, Camerawork Gallery, London, England.
1996 "United Nations-Sweden & Russia Monument: Interpol", Center for Contemporary & Architecture, Stockholm, Centemporary Art Center of Moscow, Russia.
1995 "United Nations-Israel Monument: The Holy Land", a permanent landart in Mitzpah Ramon, Israeli Cultural Minister and the Artists?Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel.
1995 "United Nations-USA Monument 1: Post-cmoellotniinaglopiostsm, a site-specific installation, Space Untitled Gallery, New York, USA. 1994 "United Nations-Holland Monument: V.O.C.-W.I.C., a site-specific installation, The Kroller-Muller Museum, The Netherlands.
1994 "United Nations-Italy Monument: God & Children", a site specific installation, Enrico Gariboldi Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy.
1993 "United Nations-Poland Monument: Hospitalized History Museum, a site specific installation, History Museum of Lodz, The Artists' Museum, Poland.
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