Paul Chan (artist)
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| Born |
April 12, 1973 Hong Kong |
| Nationality | American |
| Education |
BFA MFA |
| Alma mater |
School of the Art Institute of Chicago Bard College |
| Occupation | Contemporary artist, writer, publisher |
| Notable work |
Waiting for Godot in New Orleans 7 Lights |
| Spouse(s) | Marlo Poras |
| Children | 1 |
| Awards |
Hugo Boss Prize (2014) Alpert Award in the Arts (2009) |
Paul Chan (born April 12, 1973 in Hong Kong) 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. 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. Chan’s essays and interviews have appeared in Artforum, Frieze, Flash Art, October, Tate, Parkett, Texte Zur Kunst, Bomb, and other magazines and journals.
Chan was born in Hong Kong in 1973. Hong Kong’s air quality had a deleterious effect on Chan’s health, and so in 1980, his family relocated to Sioux Falls, Iowa, and later to Omaha, Nebraska.
Chan attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1992-1996, receiving a BFA in Video/Digital Arts. Chan served as editor of the school newspaper F for three years. Chan attended Bard’s MFA program beginning in 2000 and graduating in 2002.
In 1999, Chan launched his personal website www.nationalphilistine.com. The website would become the platform from which he distributed videos, animations, fonts and other works for free. One such project was Alternumerics (2000), a series of fonts available for use on Macs and PCs that transform what the user types into both legible and illegible blocks of text that explore both the “relationship between language and interactivity” and the “fissure between what we write and what we mean.” Another was Now Let Us Praise American Leftists (2000), a 3-minute 35 second experimental animation that sought to "eulogize and ridicule the American leftist movement of the past century.
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