Huang Yong Ping

Who is Huang Yong Ping?

Huang Yong Ping is a well-known French contemporary artist and one of the most famous Chinese Avant-garde artist, born in 1954 Xiamen, China. Recognized to be the most controversial and provocative artist in the 1980s in the Chinese art scene. Huang Yong Ping was one of the first artists to consider that art was a strategy. He was a self-taught student educating himself under three well-known men. Joseph Beuys well known German artist and art theorist, John Cage an American music theorist and philosopher, and Marcel Duchamp a French artist that's associated with Dadaist and Surrealist. He then graduated in 1982 from CAFA in Hangzhoue. In 1986 he formed Xiamen Dada. Huang Yong Ping has four periods associated with himself, anti-artistic affectation, anti-self-expression, anti-art, and anti-history. In 1989 at the age of 35 Huang Yong Ping went to Paris for the 'Magiciens de la terre exhibit. He then ended up immigrating to France and living there ever since. Many of his pieces today are on a large scale, making them not auction-compatible.

Huang Yong Ping represented France at the 1999 Venice Biennale.