Paul Chan (artist)

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Paul Chan
Chan in 2013
Born (1973-04-12) April 12, 1973 (age 51)
Hong Kong
NationalityAmerican
EducationSchool of the Art Institute of Chicago (BFA)
Bard College (MFA)
Occupation(s)Contemporary artist, writer, publisher
Notable workWaiting for Godot in New Orleans
7 Lights
AwardsMacArthur Fellowship (2022)
Hugo Boss Prize (2014)
Alpert Award in the Arts (2009)
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award (2006)

Paul Chan (born April 12, 1973) is an American artist, writer and publisher. His single channel videos, projections, animations and multimedia projects are influenced by outsider artists, playwrights, and philosophers such as Henry Darger, Samuel Beckett, Theodor W. Adorno, and Marquis de Sade. Chan's work concerns topics including geopolitics, globalization, and their responding political climates, war documentation, violence, deviance, and pornography, language, and new media.

Chan has exhibited his work at the Venice Biennale, the Whitney Biennial, documenta, the Serpentine Gallery, the Museum of Modern Art, the New Museum, and other institutions.[1] Chan is represented by Greene Naftali Gallery, New York.[2] Chan has also engaged in a variety of publishing projects, and, in 2010, founded the art and ebook publishing company Badlands Unlimited, based in New York.[3] Chan's essays and interviews have appeared in Artforum, Frieze, Flash Art, October, Tate, Parkett, Texte Zur Kunst, Bomb, and other magazines and journals.

He was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2022.[4]

  1. ^ Tomkins, Calvin. "Shadowplayer: The Provocations of Paul Chan." The New Yorker. May 26, 2008.
  2. ^ Scott, Andrea. "Paul Chan." The New Yorker. November, 2020.
  3. ^ "Off the Page." Archived 2014-10-09 at the Wayback Machine Frieze Magazine. Issue 139. May 2011.
  4. ^ "Paul Chan". www.macfound.org. Retrieved 2024-10-11.